do you ever watch a movie that is so bad but has a fucking NUGGET of potential that it'll be living rent-free in your head for weeks?

so uh

I just watched Fixed.
^{spoilers ahead, if you care}



This movie was... interesting, to say the least. The character designs are REALLY good and the characters themselves are very likeable. But holy FUCK the writing is so bad. There is like barely any actual plot going on, the pacing was god-awful, and so many scenes felt like padding. An antagonist was introduced 15 minutes into the film and then we don't see him again for a full 30 minutes. This movie DESPERATELY needed a B-plot. Like it would have been great if we could have gotten more of Honey and Sterling perhaps? But no we just got Bull and the gang dicking around the city for way too long before the writers remembered to move the plot along. So much of it feels like padding to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if this was originally a 45 minute TV-movie special that got stretched out.

The animation is a mixed bag, teetering on bad in a technical sense. Every single scene is incredibly smoothly animated which IS impressive in the sheer effort put into it, but it really dulls down a lot of the character's performance. A lot of scenes that needed quick and snappy movements instead felt sluggish because it was seemingly animated on 1's instead of 2's or 3's. Which is SUCH an amateur mistake to make thinking that more frames = better animation, I genuinely don't understand how anyone thought it was a good idea to animate the entire movie like that. My husband said that he thinks the voice acting was flat and bad, but I honest-to-god think a lot of the issue WAS because of the animation.

The cinematography was also incredibly flat, which really contributed to that TV-movie feel. There are some scenes that are literally just two talking heads for minutes at a time, and others that give off the vibe of a cartoon on TV, not a movie.

Some of the jokes got a snort or a good chuckle out of me, but the majority of them felt as if they were just dragging on and on and on and on. A lot of them also just didn't land for me, or got a good laugh but then were ruined by a character going "errmmm that just happened."

As I mentioned before I really like the characters. With how terrible the writing is, I'm surprised to find that there really isn't a character I truly dislike. Bull comes the closest, but that's mainly because he's just kinda a bumbling idiot that is annoying sometimes. I don't HATE him though. My favorite characters are Honey and Frankie. Sterling is also pretty fun in what little we get of him. Lucky and Frankie's relationship is pretty sweet as well. I really wish we got more of them together, but fuck that we needed a 5-hour long scene of nothing but cats meowing over and over again.

Overall 5/10 movie. Kinda a massive pile of shit but those kernels of gold in there has gotten me digging. I'm obsessed and you should watch this movie. I might draw some fanart at some point.

_{also i havent been online all day but i can smell the furry discourse a mile away. if you're gonna call me and/or anyone who watched, worked on, or liked this movie a "zoophile": log off twitter, go outside, and touch some grass.}