PAW Patrol: The Movie

PAW Patrol: The Movie
Directed by	Cal Brunker
Written by	Billy Frolick (screenplay/story) Cal Brunker (screenplay) Bob Barlen (screenplay)
Story by	Billy Frolick
Produced by	Jennifer Dodge
Starring	Iain Armitage Marsai Martin Ron Pardo Yara Shahidi Kim Kardashian Randall Park Dax Shepard Tyler Perry Jimmy Kimmel Will Brisbin
Edited by	Ed Fuller
Music by	Heitor Pereira
Production companies	Nickelodeon Movies Spin Master Entertainment Mikros Image
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (USA) Elevation Pictures (Canada)
Release date	August 20, 2021
Running time	1 hour and 26 minutes
Film rating
Preceded by	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Followed by	The Loud House Movie PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
External links
Official website
IMDb

“Our Fate Is In Their Paws.”

―Tagline.

PAW Patrol: The Movie is an animated movie based on the Nick Jr. animated series PAW Patrol. Directed by Cal Brunker, the movie was released in theaters and on Paramount+ on August 20, 2021.

Plot

Outside of Adventure Bay, a family of sea turtles crossing the road, the baby sea turtle climb up and across the road. Then, a truck driver named Gus is drinking a slushie and spills it on himself before he sees he sees a turtle in the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid hitting it but the truck hangs over the bridge. Cap'n Turbot comes across the scene while preparing to move the Flounder to another spot. The truck driver tells Cap'n Turbot to call the police or the fire department. Cap'n Turbot explains that in Adventure Bay, they call the PAW Patrol instead. He then calls Ryder, who sends the PAW Patrol pups, Marshall, Rubble, Chase, Rocky, Zuma, and Skye, into action.

The PAW Patrol makes it to the bridge, starting with Rocky and Zuma set up the perimeter around the bridge, then, Chase uses his grappling hook to secure on top of the bridge and save Gus and pulling him up to safety. The pups think that Gus’s truck has gas, but he reveals his truck is leaking maple syrup, Rubble then breaks out with pancakes, waffles and French toast. Chase and Ryder bring the baby sea turtle back to its family on the beach. After Ryder gives the baby sea turtle back to its mother, Chase and the pups started to howl for their success.

Meanwhile in Adventure City, a dachshund named Liberty confronts a Tough Guy for littering in the elevated subway train car when she was riding on, threatening to throw him in the trash if he didn't clean up his litter, which manages to cow him into doing just that, with the promise to clean up his life from now on as Liberty disembarks and heads to see her friend Carmen before heading to City Square. At City Square, news reporter Marty Muckraker reports the PAW Patrol’s arch-nemesis, Mayor Humdinger, who has just been elected mayor after the other candidate mysteriously dropped out of the race, which makes Liberty disgusted, only to be stopped by Ruben and Butch, who warns her about the dogs are restricted for entering by order of the new mayor. Ruben and Butch started a slap-fight twice as Liberty sneaks in with the woman's help to enter the entryway. Then, Liberty suspiciously discovers Humdinger appears on stage with the Kitten Catastrophe Crew and thank everyone for choosing him as their new mayor, the woman claims that he's the only one on the ballot. They know vote for his name so Humdinger won of the election fair and square, he then explains of how their place called Adventure City and tells them that they are boring as kittens drop the small buildings of library and the museum, and Humdinger knocks the wind-up dog park and breaks, taunting Liberty that he's going to have the adventure back in Adventure City, so he'll done with this place, she'll won't even recognize it.

Back in Adventure Bay and inside of the Lookout, Ryder and the pups get a call from Liberty, who adores her idols and explains that Humdinger is being elected as a mayor of Adventure City and the civilians ask for their help as the team agrees. Ryder tells the pups to pack their things and says "No city's too big, no pup's too small." While almost the pups gets excited, Ryder catches Chase, who walking to the elevator and tells him that he's not going. Ryder tells him that they need to go because the others need their help, but Chase refuses to go back to the city as the elevator brings him down. After Chase leaves, Marshall asked of what's got Chase's leash in a knot, Ryder reveals to the others that Chase has a "history" in Adventure City; as a young pup, he was abandoned in the city by his previous owners, leaving him alone and afraid in such a big place. After sharing Chase's backstory, Skye asked of that's where he found Chase, which Ryder agrees to her and he brought him back to Adventure Bay. Afterwards, Ryder meets up with Chase, who was sitting alone by a tree, and convinces him that everything will be fine as Chase reluctantly agrees that he trusts him.

Moments later, Ryder checks off all the pups to enter the PAW Patroller, especially Rubble, who had packed a huge stack of luggage and try to fit his luggage to the PAW Patroller's ramp door, but it falls onto him and informs that the whole stuff fits, which makes Ryder sighs of amused. Ryder then start the PAW Patroller before the PAW Patrol heads on a road trip to Adventure City. As the pups watching the windows, the boy greet Chase, Marshall, and Rubble as they make funny face each other. Ryder turns on the volume from the radio, the pups dance each other on the floor. The pups continue to watch at the windows, Chase notice Rubble of his suitcase is full of pup treats, allowing them to eat and they get a food coma while they rest. Chase and Rocky sleep onto Skye and snore loudly, much to her annoyance. The PAW Patroller arrived to Adventure City, Ryder tells the pups to wake up as they arrived. The pups witness the buildings and claims that the place is bigger than Adventure Bay, Chase becomes terrified and the place is bigger than he remembered before the rain pouring towards the city.

On a rainy day, Humdinger and his henchmen go to the Department of Meteorology laboratory where he meets Kendra Wilson, who's in charge of the university and informs her that he needs the fireworks celebration tonight because of the rain. Hearing about the machine can suck the clouds, Kendra shows Humdinger a device called the Cloud Catcher that can fly around, sucking up the clouds, and then brings it back to the lab so they can continue to study. Although she tried to dissuade him, Humdinger forces Kendra to give him access to the Cloud Catcher and clear the weather or he'll close the university. Kendra reluctantly agrees to use the device to clear the clouds for tonight. Humdinger witness the Cloud Catcher is started to clear the weather so he'll have the sky clear by sundown, then he takes Kendra's weather remote, and willing the citizens are going to love him and the fireworks, much to Kendra's dismay.

As the weather is clearing, Ryder and the pups heading into Adventure City HQ where they settled in. Upon looking at the new headquarters, Skye asked of how they can afford the place, Ryder replies with "Official PAW Patrol merchandise and they sell like hotcakes", while holding a shirt up. Marshall jumps in fear after holographic map of Adventure City shows up in place when he was standing, throwing himself onto Rubble and Rocky. Ryder shows the pups the self-serving pup treat dispenser as the pups shot pans across to reveal that the high note is coming from Rubble. Lastly, Ryder shows the pups their mission prep-area where they get their own cubby, Rubble accidentally gets into Skye's cubby area and ends up with her normal outfit, which makes him ill-fitting. He then offers them to get Skye's outfit out until it burst out, and smacks her goggles on Marshall's face, Rubble gets up and tells them that he's okay.

One evening at the City Hall, Liberty sees the citizens watch Humdinger, who's giving fireworks display to celebrate his election. As the firework pops softly twice, Liberty thinks that is less than spectacular. Humdinger calls the technician of how he's taking to long with the fireworks and has a whole routine mapped out in his head, but Humdinger wants to make the show spectacular as he activates control panels. Humbinger's kittens dance towards the control panels to activate the fireworks around the sky, much to the civilians amazement and Liberty gets terrified. Cat Chase plays the firework rocket and rides it as the fireworks explode the rest until the wood plank breaks as the show goes awry, which panics Humdinger and the citizens, Liberty claims that dogs hate fireworks as she escapes.

Back at Adventure City HQ, Rocky sees the fireworks around the city at the window as Chase and Ryder notice this and use the holographic map to check, Ryder claims that the fireworks display turned into a fireworks disaster and they must stop the fireworks before burning down the city. The pups suit up to respond and they use their new high-tech vehicles to be ready for launch. Starting with Chase, Marshall, and Skye deployed with the rest of the team until they get caught in a traffic jam from the Main Street. Just then, Liberty arrives and hops onto Ryder's ATV and greets herself to him. She then informs him that she can fix it and proceeds to rather sharply demand an old man to move aside and after he complies. Liberty informs Ryder that he knows how to talk to people before guiding them around the streets until they make it to the City Hall. Humdinger is enraged that the PAW Patrol has come to Adventure City since he was trying to get away from them, and leaves to go to his office.

First, Chase sets up the perimeter as he activates his cruiser in shields, then Ryder send Marshall and Rocky to put out the fireworks. Starting with Marshall, who uses his water canon to shoot the fireworks with some giant water balls, he is then saluted after being commended by Ryder while Rocky clear the damage fireworks in his hopper to crush them, which causes his recycling truck rocking like a cowboy. After the perimeter is secured, Chase sees the civilians are trapped on a balcony of the City Hall and eject his cruiser, then he uses his parachute to land down and rescue them, but he forgets to take off his parachute and gets blown over the railing by a wind gust and hangs him over the flames. Alerted by Chase, Ryder sends Marshall to put out the fire on the balcony so the citizens can lower Chase down to Ryder. Afterwards, the photographers take a snapshots of Chase's friends and the families, Liberty came by and asks one of the photographers to picture her when she acts as an honorary member of the team. Ryder and Chase have a pep-talk alone on the bench.

In his office, Humdinger is infuriated after learning that Marty reports the PAW Patrol's arrival in Adventure City, instructing Ruben and Butch to capture the PAW Patrol. Humdinger then vows the PAW Patrol had humiliated him for the last time as Ruben and Butch asked him of what he saying something, Humdinger tells them that he has a private moment and orders them to get out of his office immediately.

Later at night and inside of Adventure City HQ, Chase is unable to fall asleep while his friends are sleeping, going down on the stairs and sits alone at the window as he kept dwelling over his mistake. While the next morning, Liberty wakes up and getting ready of her routine and then she drives her rusty wagon with a squeaky wheel to the fruit stand where Tony works in. He frequently supplies her with fruit and asks her about the firework show last night. She then reveals to Tony that her first time helping her heroes like she dreams to become the newest member of the PAW Patrol. Afterwards, Tony informs Liberty about Humdinger's in the subway station for his next idea, she accepts to Tony before leaving and continue to help her idols, for now.

The next day, Kendra tries to warn Humdinger that the Cloud Catcher is filling up too fast, but he refuses that he can do what he wants to clear the weather and sunny every time and send Ruben and Butch to get Kendra out and they started a slap-fight again. Humdinger unveils the Humdinger Hyperloop, a loop-de-loop extension he has designed for a subway train. Despite Marty and his news team knew that was the dumbest idea he made, Humdinger claims that he's unqualified elected official and orders his kittens to low the lever to make the train cars ride over it until it breaks down and leaves the train trapped at the top of the last loop. As the passengers screamed, Humdinger and his henchmen are forced to flee.

In the meantime, Ryder gets a call of the passengers that Humdinger stuck them on the last loop and deploys the pups to rescue the passengers from the train before it falling down as they heading off for the second mission. After the PAW Patrol arrived at the scene, Liberty then arrives and continues to act as honorary member of the team. Rocky holds the rails with his hydraulic claws while Skye secures the vertical loop upright and uses her afterburners, allowing them to brace the track as Rubble stabilizes the poles with quick-dry cement. After the track is secured, Ryder sends Chase up to rooftop from the other building and uses his zip line to the train cars so the passengers can be saved. As the passengers chanting his name, Chase tries to concentrate and attempts to across it, but ends up freezing in the process due to his fear of heights and backs away from the rooftop ledge. Skye alerts Ryder that Chase's in danger from the rooftop, Ryder notice this and send Skye to rescue Chase while Marshall goes to the carpark and uses his ladder to rescue the passengers instead as Skye landed on the rooftop and decides to ask Chase to tell her what happened. He doesn't know because he froze, Skye comforts Chase that the passengers safe as of now, so she brings Chase back down to the ground.

After the train rescue, Ryder tells Chase that he should take a break while he and the other pups will take care of the rescues for a while. Chase tells him that it's unfair, but Ryder tells him it must be this way. A heartbroken Chase accuses Ryder of betraying his trust and giving up on him when things get difficult. Hurt by Chase's words, Ryder tries to console him, but Chase runs away in response. As Chase runs out of heartbreak, Ruben and Butch spotted and decide to catch him. Ryder and the pups rush towards the streets, calling out his name, but only to find Chase's pup tag is dropped on the ground. They distraught over Chase's disappearance, Liberty tells them that they have eyes and ears in the city that can track down Chase. She informs them to "pound the pavement" and "leave no stone unturned", but only Rubble takes this too literally, saying that his tools can help him twice. Liberty sarcastically asked someone to explain the whole thing to Rubble again.

When Ruben and Butch drive recklessly in their van, Chase, now collarless and unclothed, is recently captured and confronts them to under arrest. Ruben claims that he and Butch are under arrest, Butch then notices Ruben is wearing Chase's hat and they start fighting once again until they have eyes on the road property. In Fuzzy Buddies Obedience School, Ruben locks Chase in the room where he meets Barney who tells him about the place where they learn many new trick, only to be stopped by Delores. Chase learns from her about Humdinger imprisons all of the dogs of the city and turns it into a dog pound. Harris and Delores inform that Humdinger is a dog-hating and a cat-lover, which disgusted to the three dogs. Rocket claims that his own tail to catch himself around the room. Afterwards, Harris asks him about his story, but Chase doesn't know because he betrayed his team, kept messing up and let everyone down. Delores can't have with negativity, Harris comforts Chase and to pick him out a doghouse while they're trapped.

Meanwhile, Liberty and Ryder go to the grocery shop and ask Carmen about Chase's whereabouts, only to learn that all of the dogs in Adventure City having gone missing from the posters. Thinking that Humdinger is behind the disappearances, Ryder claims that Humdinger hates dogs in general. Liberty gives Ryder a piece of advice when she's like an honorary member of the team, so she sets herself up to be captured and taken to where Chase and the other dogs are incarcerated. Ryder thinks her idea may work but they need to figure out of how to get Humdinger's attention, Liberty decides to dealing with something. At the City Hall, Humdinger made his live interview with Marty until Liberty knocks over a stage piece and interrupts his interview before she gets caught by Ruben and Butch. Humdinger informs that his pants arrived, he'll take his interview from the top, only his underpants is shown. However, Marty tells him that they're broadcasting, the citizens started laughing at Humdinger's embarrassment, which he will cancel the Internet.

Back at Fuzzy Buddies Obedience School, Rocket continues to chase off his tail, and Chase, who is still downcast and disheartened by his falling out with Ryder until Ruben and Butch lock Liberty in the same room before finding Chase and break the dogs out. After meeting Delores, Liberty tells Chase that even though she's a stray, wanting to make a difference just like he does. However, Chase refuses to be a hero which turned out he's scared, Liberty motivates him that even heroes get scared from time to time as they push through and kept going. Inspired by Liberty's words, Chase informs her that the door's locked and needs it to make out. Liberty reveals that she forgot to mention, the wall is broken by Rubble's wrecking ball. She had backup since Ryder and the pups follow her in order to break into the Obedience School and found Chase, Ruben and Butch enter the room to investigate the commotion, the other dogs then chase off them in the process. After the dogs freed by the buzzing doors, the PAW Patrol is heading away from the Obedience School and decides to split up.

While the other pups return to Adventure City HQ, Ryder takes Chase to the city intersection of where he had found him. At first, Chase seems annoyed that he reminds him of his painful past in Adventure City when he was just a young pup, but Ryder tells him that it's much more than that, that it's also a great place. He then tells Chase about having their first met where Ryder saved his life from being killed by an out-of-control van. He explains that he chose to save Chase is not out of pity of that even though he was too young for the big city, Chase decided to get up and move on. He never adopted him out of pity, he adopted him because that day, Ryder met the bravest pup he ever met. Back in the present day, Ryder knows that the city has been tough for him, but he also know that deep down because Chase was born to be a hero. Inspired by Ryder's words, Chase begins to heal of his insecurity. Ryder asks Chase to go to work after he gives his pup tag back to him, and Chase reassuringly accepts to resume his duties and rejoins the team.

Soon, the Cloud Catcher becomes overfilled and goes critical. Humdinger arrives out of his limo and started to make his another event until he is stopped by Kendra, who had tried earlier to tell him this, but he had waved her off twice as he throws the remote and destroys it on the ground. Humdinger reveals to his grand opening of his building called Humdinger Heights with an extension he has added to the city’s tallest skyscraper, putting his office at the very top so that everyone will look up to him. Then, the machine begins leaking clouds with weeks’ worth of nasty weather, placing a massive hurricane-strength storm over all of Adventure City, putting everyone in mortal danger. Marty reports the deadly weather forming to the rest of the city, which his toupee rips him off and flies away, claiming that he's lying about his toupee.

At Adventure City HQ, Ryder and the pups are shocked as they see the massive hurricane at the window. The lightning strikes, Rubble screams in horror and hiding behind Liberty and Skye, claiming that lightning is frightened him. Just then, Ryder gets a call from Kendra, who claims that the mesoscale convective system was causing exponential thermal lift and catastrophic downbursts over 190 knots. Much to his friends confused, Rubble comes clean to Kendra about this to his friends, as he able to understand her correctly. Kendra finally makes it clear of someone gets of what she said, then she informs them about the hurricane is caused by a weather-control device all over the city as the team respond in a flash. The pups head out in their vehicles as Liberty watches. Once she's upset after watching her friends drives out, Ryder knows her that she's an honorary member of the team, making Liberty an official member and needs a faster vehicle to replaces her wagon since it was slow for her to ride in. Liberty receives her motor scooter with a speed booster, she is excited for her new vehicle and her dream is finally came true. Now in her uniform, Liberty is ready for launch and realizes just how fast of her seat gets extended. Her reaction upon being launched is completely justified, then she joyfully rides with her scooter and join the PAW Patrol race to Humdinger Heights. The pups welcome Liberty to the team before Ryder forces them to improvise.

Once the team makes it to Humdinger Heights, Marty's toupee smacks into Rubble's face and clams that is hairy out there as Ryder deploy he, Marshall, and Rocky help the citizens take cover while Zuma and Liberty go and check the streets are cleared. As the car approaches and blown, Chase fires his net to stop the car before it gets hit into the family. Commended by Ryder, Chase reminds him that he can count on him, Kendra alerts Ryder that the Cloud Catcher gone critical and is unable to bring it down. Despite of Ryder's warning to be careful, Skye reassures that she has a little turbulence before flying into the air to find the Cloud Catcher. Liberty informs Zuma that the streets are empty and the citizens are safe, Zuma then notice the car is on the river and split his hovercraft into its submarine to rescue the family in a car while Liberty uses Zuma's raft to find the family. After caught the car on his claws, Zuma activates his scuba suit to get the family out. When a teenage girl decides to take a selfie with her, her father, and Zuma. Her mother, on the other hand, is not amused and tells her that is not time for selfies, which make the girl groan. Liberty uses the raft's spotlight as the raft is in position, Zuma emerges with the family and informs Ryder that the family is safe and they heading to the dry safe place.

After arriving at Humdinger Heights, Ryder sends Chase to get the camerawoman to safety before entering the building. Marshall and Rocky send the citizens to take cover inside of Humdinger Heights, Rubble, who's wearing Marty's toupee, saying the citizens to stay away from the windows. Marty notice this and asked Rubble of where he found it. Rubble says that Marty's toupee found him and it was his destiny. However, Marty yanks his toupee from Rubble about having his signature look and demands Rubble to buy his own hair before Ryder ascends to Humdinger’s office. Skye notice the Cloud Catcher was a dead ahead, saying that is going to be bumpy before continue to find it. At the top of his office, Humdinger hides under his desk, trying to protect himself with his kittens from the storm until Ryder shows up and convinces him to evacuate after the storm cuts off the electricity and the tower is unstable. Humdinger initially refuses until his giant top hat blown away from his office tower, so he accepts Ryder's help. Humdinger gets on the elevator as Ryder manually releases the elevator cables to quickly lower Humdinger to the ground, and starts rappelling down the shaft to the lobby of the building. As it stops, Humdinger still screaming, but then realizes he's okay, but in an awkward position in front of Marty and the citizens.

As Humdinger's tower was blowing back and forth, Ryder informs the pups that Humdinger is out and he attempts to rappel down after them until the top of tears itself from its foundation due to the storm and collapes the tower extension into another building, trapping Ryder in the debris. A horrified Chase notice this and rushes to Ryder's aid as he activates his cruiser in shields again to cover himself by the falling iron objects. Chase then activates his motorcycle and jumps into Humdinger Heights by using suction-cupped tires on his wheels to ride straight up the side of the windows. After arrived on top of Humdinger Heights, Chase calls out Ryder's name and sees the glow from a light on Ryder’s suit, but when he reaches what's left of the tower's base and sees there's a huge gap where the falling tower between the other building. Chase tries to concentrate himself and fires his grappling hook to get across. However, his grappling hook is caught by the fierce winds and nearly yanks him to the street below, Chase forces to disengage his pup pack in order to save himself from falling. Chase climbs up and started to back away from the gap, feeling his fear begins to resurface until he then remembering Ryder’s words about his bravery, letting out a heroic scream and takes a leap of faith to make it across the gap. After finding Ryder, both are happy to see each other, Chase reminds him that he can always count on him. As they try to escape, Ryder tells him that he's stuck, Chase tries to help him, but the first try doesn't seem to work. Chase, willing to save Ryder, tells him to give it another try. With their teamwork, Ryder makes it out, then he and Chase share a hug before they escape the building.

In the air, Skye found the Cloud Catcher and carefully closes it since it has lightning. Her first attempt to lasso the machine with her net, but fails and zaps her helicopter and forces to fly up again so she transforms it into its jet mode and uses it as a kamikaze-style attack to sacrifice her helicopter and destroy the Cloud Catcher, before using her jet pack to fly safely down to the ground. After the weather is cleared and sunny once again, Skye landed into the ground and hopes that Ryder get insurance of her helicopter, but only to be crashed on the ground behind her and Rocky as they looked at the badge clinks in front on them and she stares it in dismay. Rocky tells her that it will buff right out as Skye looked at him in annoyance.

Just then, the other pups are reunited with Chase and Ryder, who came out of the building. The other pups tackles Ryder and they licking him, Skye tells them to stop and give Ryder some air. Liberty asked him of how he feel, Ryder claims that he's cover in drool. Rubble tells them that his tongue's too big for his mouth, which makes his friends amused. Ryder commends the pups for their bravery and started to howl for their success. As the citizens, emerging from Humdinger Heights, rejoice and cheer for the PAW Patrol, Humdinger tries to escape with his kittens, but is confronted by Chase, who place him under arrest for gross negligence, public endangerment, and “dog-napping”. However, Humdinger refuses because he's the mayor and escaped as his kittens got dropped and run away. Marshall alerts that Humdinger is getting away, Skye activates her mini drone to catch and carried Humdinger back, which the drone's hook can't support his weight and ends up tearing his pants again. When Humdinger gets up, he embarrassingly ends up being humiliated by the PAW Patrol once more.

The following day, Kendra tells of how Adventure City is their home and they must to protect the city, but a group of heroes go above and beyond the call of duty, being responsible for their neighbors. Marty announces to present the key to Adventure City to the PAW Patrol and hailed as heroes in a major ceremony. Cap'n Turbot and Mayor Goodway attend the ceremony and express how proud they are of the pups. Marty gives his toupee to Rubble, who claims that he'll never take his hair off, which makes his friends laugh. Ryder then announces an official member of the PAW Patrol is Liberty, who's given her own pup tag and collar by making her a true member, finally fulfilling her dreams.

Thanking the honor of the PAW Patrol, Ryder begins to make a speech about how they will always be there for Adventure City, but gets interrupted by a call from Harris, who informs them about there's an emergency down at the waterfront. Chase declares to Ryder that the pups are ready and Ryder tells the audiences that the team heads into action as duty calls once more. Afterwards, the film ends with the PAW Patrol, as well as Liberty, grabbing their vehicles and drives off to the rescue together.

Cast

Series characters

• Iain Armitage as Chase
• Will Brisbin as Ryder
• Kingsley Marshall as Marshall
• Lilly Bartlam as Skye
• Callum Shoniker as Rocky
• Keegan Hedley as Rubble
• Shayle Simons as Zuma
• Ron Pardo as Mayor Humdinger and Cap'n Turbot
• Kim Roberts as Mayor Goodway

Five other characters from the series make non-speaking cameo appearances: Francois Turbot, Katie, Farmer Yumi, Farmer Al, and Mr. Porter.

Brand-new characters

• Marsai Martin as Liberty
• Yara Shahidi as Kendra Wilson
• Kim Kardashian as Delores
• Randall Park as Butch
• Dax Shepard as Ruben
• Tyler Perry as Gus
• Jimmy Kimmel as Marty Muckracker
• Monique Alvarez as Carmen
• Neil Crone as Tony
• Joe Pingue as Barney
• Charlie Gallant as Harris
• Richard Binsley as Rocket
• Paul Braunstein as a Tough Guy
• Josh Robert Thompson as the fireworks technician
• Jamillah Ross as the camerawoman
• Josh Graham as the computer voice

Additional Voices

• Raoul Bhaneja
• Paul Braunstein
• Margot Brunker
• Saara Chaudry
• Humnberly Gonzalez
• Dwayne Hill
• Emily Hurson
• Shazdeh Kapadia
• Patrick Kwok-Choon
• Rosa Laborde
• James Larson
• Christopher Marren
• Ali Momen
• Sumalee Montano
• Isie Moore
• Derek Moran
• Alex Paxton-Beesley
• Lindsay Owen-Pierre
• Geoffrey Pounsett
• Sunita Prasad
• Cara Ricketts
• Veena Sood
• Christie Stewart
• Sophie Walker

Production

Development

In November 2017, Ronnen Harary confirmed that Spin Master was "currently considering whether to extend the PAW Patrol franchise into feature films at some point in the next 12 to 24 months." Animation tests were conducted in 2017 to measure how the characters "would translate onto the big screen" and the company developed a film script.

Development of the film was confirmed on February 21, 2020, with Cal Brunker attached as director while Spin Master Entertainment's president, Jennifer Dodge serves as the film's producer. Production was done in both the United States and Canada. On March 13, 2021, an exclusive first look of the film was shown during the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2021.

Dodge stated that they were excited about the partnership with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies to bring the franchise to the big screen. She adds, "This first foray into the arena of feature film marks a significant strategic expansion for Spin Master Entertainment and our properties. This demonstrates our commitment to harnessing our own internal entertainment production teams to develop and deliver IP in a motion picture format and allows us to connect our characters to fans through shared theatrical experiences."

Dodge said, "For us, it was important to be able to tell a deeper character story than what they've been able to do with the series." She also explained, "And to tell it in a way that a child really can understand and relate to, and maybe even their parents get a deeper meaning from it. You can have a hard day at school or daycare and you can rise above those difficulties and you can come through on the other side. It doesn't mean you're never scared, it doesn't mean you don't doubt yourself. But, if at the end of the day, you really believe in yourself and you have people around you who believe in you, you can overcome it."

"When the chance came to pitch my take on the movie, I was able to bring all of their experience and what my kids loved about the show to the pitch, and I think that really helped," says Brunker. "Our take was, we really wanted to build this around the emotional journey of one character, so it felt like more of a theatrical experience. You go on a journey with one of these characters overcoming their struggles, and the whole team is involved, but we felt that that was the best way to bring an audience deeper into the story."

Casting

On October 15, 2020, Iain Armitage, Marsai Martin, Yara Shahidi, Kim Kardashian, Randall Park, Dax Shepard, Tyler Perry, Jimmy Kimmel were announced as part of the cast. On May 3, 2021, the cast and characters were announced. Adam Levine, Perry and Kardashian joined the cast because their respective children were fans of the show. For the role of Ryder, more than 1,000 people auditioned before Will Brisbin a 15-years old actor from Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, got the role.

During an interview with Collider, Brunker spoke about enjoying the voice cast overall. "The core cast of pups and Ryder are all kids, and that was new for us and really wonderful. We really worked with them to try to get true, meaningful performances out of all the characters, and I thought they did an amazing job. The character of Chase, played by Iain [Armitage], goes on such a wonderful emotional journey that's a little bit unexpected, and he just brought so much to it. He broke our hearts in some moments. You really end up rooting for him. In terms of improvisation, I would say Marsai's deliveries were the things that were most surprising. She almost couldn't do anything bad. When we were going through the takes, it was like, "This is great. This is great in a different way. And this is great in a different way." She was wonderful and brought so much energy to it. Everybody was wonderful. Dax [Shepard] is the nicest guy, who was game on for everything. Tyler Perry was thrilled to be a part of it. His son is a big fan, and he certainly loves to improvise and do lots of takes. We couldn't have had a better cast or a better experience for recording them."

In an interview with Screen Rant, Iain Armitage spoke about the film and how he aspires to be like his canine counterpart Chase, ahead of the film's home entertainment release. He stated about the film's main character, "Chase is a fun, funny, smart, brave, loyal dog. And he's a police dog, and he's sort of the, I don't think he's the head of the team, but he's really on top of things. I think he's very cool under pressure. He's very helpful. And he always loves to help other people. And he's always very kind, which I think is very important. And I think I try to be like him in everyday life. I don't always succeed, but I try."

According to Armitage, "The cool thing about voice-over is, you can't convey things with your body because, of course, they don't see it. So you sort of have to have everything that you're going to be doing for the character come through in your voice, which is hard, but it's also kind of fun. It's a fun challenge, but on the upside, you can show up to work in pajamas, and they won't get mad at you. So that balances out. But I think just trying to really bring emotion into my voice in some of those scenes and to really make it clear that I care about Ryder [Will Brisbin] and my fellow pups on the team."

Animation

On November 8, 2019, it was announced that Mikros Image in Montreal would handle the animation. There are 250 filmmakers with a team of about 60 devoted to the animation. Their biggest challenge was creating high-quality theatrical animation that didn't lose the style of the series. They were also especially interested in creating action scenes that had more of a realistic quality.

Trivia

• This is the second theatrical film based on a Nick Jr. show, with the first being Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
  • This is also the second Nickelodeon film animated by Mikros Image, following The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
• After working on films like Escape from Planet Earth and The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature from mini-major distributors, this is the debut film distributed by a Hollywood-studio for Cal Brunker and co-writer Bob Barlen.
  • Billy Frolick, one of the writers, has worked on DreamWorks' original Madagascar film.
• This is Nickelodeon Movies' seventh computer-animated film, after Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Barnyard, Rango, The Adventures of Tintin, Wonder Park, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
• The PAW Patrol Movie logo is more detailed than the show's normal logo.
• This film was originally set to debut on Paramount+ just 45 days after being released in theaters. Around October 4, 2021, it was eventually confirmed that the film would be released in theaters and on Paramount+ simultaneously on August 20, 2021, making it the first Paramount film (and also the first Nickelodeon film) to be released in theaters and on Paramount+ on the same day.
• Unlike previous films from Nickelodeon Movies, PAW Patrol: The Movie was produced in Canada instead of the United States, and the film's copyright is owned by Spin Master rather than Paramount. Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies only presented the film internationally, and did not produce it outright.
• An exclusive first look of the movie was shown at the 2021 Kids' Choice Awards.
• This is Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures' first animated film to be rated G by the MPA since Charlotte's Web.
  • Thus, it is also the fifth Nickelodeon film to receive a G rating after The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, and Charlotte's Web and also the first one not to receive a PG rating since the direct-to-video crossover film Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which was rated PG-13).
• Originally, it was supposed to be produced by Paramount Animation, but it was later confirmed that they will not be involved with this film.

Videos

PAW Patrol- The Movie (2021) - Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures

Gallery

Official logo.

First poster.

External links

• PAW Patrol Wiki: PAW Patrol: The Movie
• PAW Patrol: The Movie at the Internet Movie Database

• PAW Patrol: The Movie at Behind the Voice Actors