- For the DVD release, see PAW Patrol: The Movie (DVD).
- For the book, see PAW Patrol: The Movie: Big Golden Book.
- For the activity book, see PAW Patrol: The Movie Official Activity Book.
- For the soundtrack, see PAW Patrol: The Movie (Music from the Motion Picture).
PAW Patrol: The Movie is the first theatrical film based on the PAW Patrol franchise. The film was released on August 20, 2021. It was first mentioned in Spin Master's First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call.
On November 8, 2019, Mikros Animation announced they would produce the film.
On February 21, 2020, The Wrap confirmed that it will be released in August 2021.
On April 25, 2020, NickALive reported that it is scheduled to be released on August 20, 2021.
On March 13, 2021, the first sneak peek of the movie was shown during Nickelodeon's 2021 Kids' Choice Awards ceremony.
Summary
Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of bad chaos, while Chase has to overcome his past trauma to get the job done. Get ready for exciting missions, high-stake rescues, new pups and amazing new vehicles making this the biggest PAW Patrol story ever! No city is too big; no pup is too small!
Characters
- Ryder
- Chase
- Marshall
- Skye
- Rocky
- Rubble
- Zuma
- Liberty (debut)
- Mayor Humdinger
- Kitten Catastrophe Crew
- Cap'n Turbot
- Mayor Goodway
- Chickaletta
- Katie (cameo)
- Francois Turbot (cameo)
- Mr. Porter (cameo)
- Farmer Al (cameo)
- Farmer Yumi (cameo)
- Gus (debut)
- Delores (debut)
- Harris (debut)
- Barney (debut)
- Rocket (debut)
- Unnamed Dalmatian (debut)
- Kendra Wilson (debut)
- Marty Muckraker (debut)
- Butch (debut)
- Ruben (debut)
- Tough Guy (debut)
- Tony (debut)
- Carmen (debut)
- Camerawoman (debut)
- Meteor Max (debut)
- Guillermo (debut, poster)
- Mom Sea Turtle
- Baby Turtles
Synopsis
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 successfully 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 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 zipline to the train cars so the passengers can be saved, but he 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 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 rejoin 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. Just then, 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 try 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.
During the credits, Mayor Humdinger and the Catastrophe Crew are shown to have been apprehended and detained for their crimes throughout the movie while being removed from the city mayoral office, the Cloud Catcher has been rebuilt, and Butch and Ruben are riding a tandem bicycle while pulling a cart full of cats.
Pups in Action
Mission in Adventure Bay
- Set up the perimeter around the bridge.
- Use his grappling hook to save Gus.
First Responders
- Guide the team through the traffic jam to the City Hall.
- Put up a perimeter.
- Put out the fireworks.
- Put out the fire from the City Hall.
- Crush the fireworks and clean them up.
Second Mission
- Hold onto the rails with his grappling arms.
- Put the cement on the poles to secure them.
- Put the rail upright using her claw.
- Pick up Chase who is stranded on the rooftop.
- Climb to the rooftop to open the door of the train (FAILED).
- Use his ladder to get the passengers off the train.
Interlude
- Get herself captured and find Fuzzy Buddies.
Rubble+ Rocky+ Skye+ Zuma+ Marshall
- Breach the wall at Fuzzy Buddies to rescue Chase.
Rubble+ Rocky+ Skye+ Zuma+ Marshall+ Liberty
- Head back to the Adventure City HQ and wait for further orders.
- Head to the city intersection.
Third Mission
- Round up all civilians inside Humdinger Heights.
- Go underwater and save the family from a drowning car.
- Get on the rescue raft and look for the family.
- Save the civilians from the flying vehicles.
- Rescue Ryder.
- Take down the Cloud Catcher.
- Defeat Mayor Humdinger.
Sequel
On November 3, 2021, it was announced via PAW Patrol’s social media that a second theatrical movie called "PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie" is being released on September 29, 2023.