“Couic! »On Netflix: extraordinary, this animated film for adults has dogs

His new film is so special that Genndy Tartakovsky, the brilliant creator and director of the saga “Hotel Transylvanie”, has split an explanatory letter accompanying the viewing ties of “Couic! »Sent to journalists. He details the process that led to this UFO similar to no other, finally online after a long wait, this Wednesday on Netflix.

The filmmaker tells how he had the idea of this adult film “in 2D and drawn by hand” – a rarity these days – telling the misadventures of a dog who discovers that his foster family decided to make it castrate.

The project had attracted its attachment studio, in 2019, Sony Animation, which produced it. Las, he continues, a change of the management team resulted in the fact that the film, it is true extraordinary, is blocked. Present in June at the Annecy animated film festival, Genndy Tartakovsky explained that from there, he offered it to many American distributors, “but for two years, nobody wanted to Couic ! It was despairing “… until Netflix took the risk of spreading it.

You might as well specify it right away: this risk, the platform limits it by assorting the dissemination of a ban on under 16s which will be clearly visible on the film page. In the United States, “fixed”, its title in VO, was classified “R”, therefore requiring the agreement and the presence of an adult to be seen by those under 17.

This delirious nugget makes you scream with laughter every second

Why so much precautions? Because certainly hilarious, but also crazy, gore and very daring, this story that makes us total in the trash genre is indeed not to be put in all eyes – the American classification is accompanied by a detailing description that the film approaches themes such as drugs and sex using flowery language.

And it’s true. The fact remains that for those over 16, this atypical and delusional nugget makes you scream with laughter every second and is iconoclastic treats. “Couic! »Starts with the adoption of Bull, charming little bastard, with an American family.

The following scene takes place a few years later: Bull, sexual obsessed like many young dogs, never ceases to masturbate on the calf of the family’s “Granny”, to the chagrin of its members. Which makes her friends laugh a lot, starting with her neighbor and best darling friend, a sublime red -hassle, who is an absolute fantasy of Bull, even if he hides it.

His small band, made up of four doggies of different breeds, which he finds every day in the canine park, the desire: they were all castrated. But when he learns that his masters decided to do the same, it is panic.

A very colorful and childish graphics charter like Looney Tunes

Flogging with his friends, Bull will live incredible adventures – always centered on his obsessions around his genital apparatus – which will, among other things, make him meet aggressive street cats, bring him to create indescribable chaos in a canine competition, or make him discover an incredible house closed for the best friends of the man – you have to see it to believe it!

Crazy movie, where you almost never see humans, “Couic!” »Shows us, in a very colorful and childish graphics charter in Looney Tunes for more lag, around fifty canine breeds on the screen, each having its particularities. Genndy Tartakovsky even dares the romance between a mini-all or a transgender dog to better support his very modern speech on respect for differences.

Less trendy, his defense, certainly for laughing, of a certain freedom – doubled with an obsession – sexual. Which is accompanied, in terms of dialogues, with total impudence, with the word “cock” pronounced every two minutes, and, in terms of images, mind -boggling sequences, with force close to the testicles of these dogs in a free wheel.

But it is so funny that you sometimes have to put on a break to give time to the crisis of laughter to go out. To the point that we would almost come to complain about the under 16s to have to wait to take advantage of this amazing nugget …