- “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[]
In Adventure Bay, a truck driver named Gus drives passing through when his truck crashes while trying to avoid a baby sea turtle and hangs over the town's suspension 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 calls Ryder, who sends the PAW Patrol pups, Marshall, Rubble, Chase, Rocky, Zuma, and Skye, into action. After Rocky and Zuma putting the perimeter around the bridge, Chase manages to save Gus, revealing his truck is leaking maple syrup instead of gas, Rubble then breaks out the pancakes and waffles. Chase and Ryder bring the baby sea turtle back to its family on the beach.
Meanwhile, in Adventure City, a dachshund named Liberty convinces a man on the subway to not litter. When she makes it into the city square, Liberty finds the PAW Patrol’s arch-nemesis, Mayor Humdinger has just been elected Mayor after the other candidate mysteriously dropped out of the race, leaving Humdinger as the only name on the ballot. Knowing of Humdinger's infamous wrongdoings in the past, Liberty contacts them to come to Adventure City to help keep its people safe from him. However, Chase initially refuses to go and leaves, 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. Afterwards, Ryder meets up with Chase, who was sitting alone by a tree. Ryder convinces him that everything will be fine as Chase reluctantly agrees that he trusts him. The PAW Patrol heads on a road trip to Adventure City.
On a rainy day as Ryder and the pups are settling into their new headquarters, Humdinger and his two security guards, Butch and Ruben, go to a meteorology laboratory where he insists on testing out the Cloud Catcher, a device designed by Dr. Kendra Wilson to collect clouds for research. Later that night, Humdinger is giving a fireworks display to celebrate his election, but the show goes awry and Ryder and the pups suit up to respond. Unfortunately, they get caught in a traffic jam for a moment, but Liberty sees them and helps to get them to the site. 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.
As Chase puts a perimeter while Marshall and Rocky extinguish the fireworks, Chase then sees some citizens trapped on a balcony and uses his parachute down to rescue them, but he forgets to take off his parachute and gets blown over the railing by a wind gust. Ryder sees Chase in trouble and has Marshall put out the fire on the balcony so the citizens can lower Chase down to Ryder. After learning that the PAW Patrol's arrival in Adventure City on the news broadcast by Adventure City News reporter Marty Muckraker, an infuriated Humdinger instruct Butch and Ruben to capture the PAW Patrol. Soon at night, Chase could not fall asleep when his friends are sleeping and kept dwelling on his mistake while the next morning, Liberty reveals to Tony, a shop owner, that her first time helping her heroes like she is an honorary member of the PAW Patrol when she ever dreamed.
The next day, Humdinger unveils a loop-de-loop extension he has designed for a subway train, which breaks down and leaves the train trapped at the top of the last loop. As the PAW Patrol arrives, Rocky and Skye brace the track and Rubble stabilizes it with quick-dry cement while Ryder sends Chase up to rooftop and uses his zip-line to the train cars so the passengers can be saved, but ends up freezing due to his fear of heights and Skye has to save him while Marshall uses his ladder to rescue the passengers. After the rescue is finished, Ryder advises Chase to take a break, but Chase becomes heartbroken by accusing him of breaking his trust and runs away after hurting Ryder's feelings in response, only to be captured by Butch and Ruben, and taken to Fuzzy Buddies obedience school which Humdinger has turned into a dog pound where he meets his fellow inmates Delores, Barney, Harris, and Rocket.
While Liberty helps Ryder search for Chase, they discover from Carmen, a shop owner who knows her that numerous dogs have vanished recently and link it all to Humdinger since he hates dogs. To help save Chase, Liberty gives Ryder her advice that she deliberately gets herself captured by knocking over a stage piece during a live interview of Humdinger. She is taken to the obedience school and comforts Chase while telling him that even heroes get scared from time to time as they push through and kept going before revealing she had Ryder and the rest of the PAW Patrol follow her in order to break into the obedience school and set the other dogs free. 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 where he had found him as a young pup and saving his life from being hit by an out-of-control car. He explains that he chose to save him, not out of pity, but because he was the bravest pup he ever met. Ryder asks him to go to work, and Chase reassuringly accepts to resume his duties and rejoins the team. Later, Humdinger reveals his building called Humdinger Heights with an extension he has added to the city’s tallest skyscraper, putting his office at the very top. But at that moment, the Cloud Catcher goes critical, having not been designed to run nonstop or be used for controlling weather. Kendra had tried earlier to tell him this, but he had waved her off twice after he destroyed the remote. The device begins leaking clouds with weeks’ worth of nasty weather, placing a massive hurricane-strength storm over all of Adventure City. Knowing the PAW Patrol is the city’s only hope, Kendra contacts them and they respond in a flash. As the pups head out in their vehicles, Ryder makes Liberty an official member and replaces her original ride, a rusty wagon with a squeaky wheel, receiving her with a sleek new motor scooter and her uniform so she can join them. The PAW Patrol race to Humdinger Heights and force them to improvise.
As Chase managed to save the citizens from the flying vehicles, while Marshall, Rocky, and Rubble help the citizens take cover and Liberty helps Zuma rescue the family on a car in the water, Skye flies into the sky to stop the Cloud Catcher while Ryder ascends to Humdinger’s office and convinces him to evacuate as the storm cuts off the electricity. Humdinger is initially adamant on staying put, but Ryder’s words prove to him that the tower is unstable and he gets on the elevator. Ryder manually releases the elevator cables to quickly lower Humdinger to the ground, and then starts rappelling down the shaft. Suddenly, the tower gets blown over sideways and Ryder gets trapped inside. Chase becomes horrified, having seen the tower fall, rushes to rescue him by using suction-cupped tires on his police car’s detachable motorcycle to ride straight up the side of the windows of Humdinger Heights. Upon seeing the glow from a light on Ryder’s suit, Chase rushes to a gap where the tower has split in the middle, he then tries to concentrate himself and fires his grappling hook to get across. The grappling hook is caught by the wind and 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, but he then remembering Ryder’s words about his courage, letting out a heroic scream and takes a leap of faith to make it across the gap. He helps Ryder get unstuck and they escape the building.
Above the skies of the city, Skye has stops the Cloud Catcher. Her first attempt to lasso the machine with her helicopter’s net fails and zaps her engine, and forces to fly up again so she transforms it into its jet form and uses a kamikaze-style attack to sacrifice her helicopter and destroy the Cloud Catcher, before using her winged jet-pack to fly safely down to the ground. As the weather is restored and gets sunny again, Chase and Ryder come out of the building and the pups are relieved to see them safe. Ryder is proud of his team and the citizens emerge from Humdinger Heights congratulating them for saving the city. Chase then catches Humdinger and places him for endangering the city and capturing the dogs, but Humdinger tries to escape, only to be carried back by Skye’s mini-drone, which embarrassingly rips his pants.
The following day, the PAW Patrol is hailed as heroes and given the key to Adventure City in a major ceremony by Kendra and Marty. Cap'n Turbot and Mayor Goodway attend the ceremony and express how proud they are of the pups. Ryder gives Liberty her own pup-tag to make her a true member and her dream is finally came true. Ryder begins to make a speech about how they will always be there for Adventure City, but gets interrupted by a call from Harris, one of the dogs from the obedience school, saying there is another emergency down at the waterfront. Chase declares to Ryder that the pups are ready for action, the PAW Patrol then grab their vehicles and drives off to the rescue together.
Production[]
The film was animated by Mikros Animation at its Montreal division office, which was also involved in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and later Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.[1] The film's animation testing was first conducted in 2017, before being confirmed for development as of May 2019.[2] On February 21, 2020, it was confirmed for an August release with animation veteran Cal Brunker directing the film.[3] PAW Patrol: The Movie is the first film released as part of Spin Master's new feature film plans; a sequel, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, will be the second.[2]
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[4]
- Kim Kardashian as Delores[4]
- Randall Park as Butch[4]
- Dax Shepard as Ruben[4]
- Tyler Perry as Gus[4]
- Jimmy Kimmel as Marty Muckracker[4]
- Monique Alvarez as Carmen
- Neil Crone as Tony
- Joe Pingue as Barney
- Charlie Gallant as Harris
- Richard Binsley as Rocket
- Paul Braunstein as Tough Guy
- Josh Robert Thompson as Fireworks technician
- Jamillah Ross as Camerawoman
- Josh Graham as 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
Trivia[]
- This is the first movie to be based off of PAW Patrol.
- 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.
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References[]
- ↑ Paw Patrol Movie - Mikros
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A New ‘PAW Patrol’ Movie Is Coming in 2021 and Here’s What You Need to Know
- ↑ 'PAW Patrol' Feature Coming From Paramount, Spin Master - The Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 ‘PAW Patrol: The Movie’: Kim Kardashian West, Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Perry, Iain Armitage, Randall Park, ‘Black-ish’ Duo & Others Join Voice Cast
External links[]
PAW Patrol | ||
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Characters | Main characters | Ryder • Chase • Marshall • Skye • Rocky • Rubble • Zuma • Everest • Tracker • Liberty |
Supporting characters | Cap'n Turbot • Robo-Dog • Mayor Goodway • Chickaletta • Francois Turbot • Alex Porter • Mr. Porter • Katie • Cali • Jake • Farmer Yumi • Farmer Al • Carlos • Daring Danny X • Mayor Humdinger • Kitten Catastrophe Crew • Meow-Meow | |
Recurring characters | Julius and Julia Goodway • Otis Goodway • Ms. Marjorie • Princess of Barkingburg • Earl of Barkingburg • Sweetie • Sid Swashbuckle • Arrby • Harold Humdinger • Tuck and Ella • The Ladybird • The Copycat • Rex • Dr. Tammy Turbot • Taylor Turbot • Cat Pack (Wild, Rory, Shade and Leo) • Ruff-Ruff Pack (Hubcap, Dwayne and Gasket) • Claw • Sparks • Al • Coral • Moby • McSquidly • Junior Patrollers (Nano, Mini and Tot) • Roxi • Boomer | |
Productions | PAW Patrol • Rubble & Crew • Episodes • Video releases • PAW Patrol: The Movie • PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie |