Just Shapes and Beats: The Movie

"It's Just Shapes and Beats"

- Slogan

Just Shapes and Beats: The Movie is an 2027 Canadian computer-animated adventure junkbox musical film directed by Simon "Lachhh" Lachance (in his directorial debut) and co-produced by Cinesite & Mainframe Studios while animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks and distributed by VVS Films in association with Berzerk Studio and Denstu Canada. Based on the popular action rhythm video game of the same name, developed and published by the Canadian indie game studio, Berzerk Studio and stars the voices of Michael Cera, Vincent Tong and Devon Bostick. It tells an story of a big blue Cube, simply named Cube and a blue square named Cyan, who has to save their world of Shapes and beats from a deadly corruption.

Just Shapes and Beats: The Movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2027, followed by a theatrical release in cinemas in Canada on October 29th by VVS Films. The movie was internationally theatrically released by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film grossed $193 million worldwide and received nominations for two, three as well as. The song "Bad to the Beat" by Avril Lavigne was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song,

Plot
In the peaceful world of Paradise, The Tree of Life create a new shape in order to protect the lands from any kind of threats, After a new Cube simply named Cyan was created when passing a test from the triangles, Cyan ran off and first came across with Cube, a big cube. Immediately, they became best friends and started to have fun with the triangles. However, while going through the sea with a bridge, they encountered a cave. Scared by the atmosphere, Cyan uses the triangles to glow up the cave, but it stabs a plant in the process. As it started corrupting, the plant became Blixer and attacked Cyan and Cube, resulting in a chase, but they luckily managed to escape, as did Blixer as he corrupted the sky and ocean, which led to many other plants getting corrupted too.

As Cyan and Cube reached the main lands of Paradise with Blixer behind them, he ripped the Tree of Life from the ground and corrupted it too, creating a tower and becoming more powerful in the process. After Cyan failed to attack him and accidentally got separated from Cube, who was now floating across the ocean, Cyan tried to get him, while battling many corrupted plants. During that, Cyan created a boat friend named Captain to help him get through the corrupt sea to a volcano. However, when he arrived, Blixer put one of the corrupted triangles in the volcano lava, causing it to become corrupted. As Cyan gets in, he encounters Barracuda, a creation that Blixer made with some corrupted triangles to block the volcano's enterance itself.

After Cyan defeats Barracuda and getting through the most corrupted parts of the volcano cave itself, Cyan floats on a rock to get through the lava, while meeting a non-corrupted plant named Lycanthropy. Unfortunately, while trying to cause the destroyed volcano stone to float up, the volcano itself started to shake, resulting in Lycanthropy accidentally falling down and becoming corrupted. As Lycanthropy start attacking Cyan while chasing him, Cyan went to the volcano vent but so did Lycanthropy. After defeating Lycanthropy in the lava and healing the corrupted triangle, which also cured Lycanthropy himself, Lycanthropy dance on the now cured lava, which resulted an eruption to itself and some rain that cured the sea and a lot of the corrupted plants.

As Captain get through the tower pipes, Cyan gets in while trying to get through the machinery as well as gears in the factory towers itself while trying to save Cube in the process, but when doing that, he accidentally ends up in another part of the factory, which lead him to create another friend, this time a helicopter named Heli. As Cyan get through the machinery once again, he ends up in a conveyer belt that saws as well as corrupts any trees but with Heli help, he manages to get out safely, with Heli getting through most of the industry machinery by using her blades. As their get through the main part of the factory where plants get picked by a crane to get corrupted, they met Cube again. However, Immediately, Cube gets carried by the crane and due to Heli small body, Cube end up getting corrupted by the corrupted triangle.

Which leads to Cube and Cyan fighting, but at the end, Cyan ultimately defeated him. With him curing the triangle, he cured Cube back to normal. Upon doing so, it result trigger the tower security and blocking to the main part of the tower. After Cyan breaks all the security and with praises from his friends, he gets in the main part of the tower, on where Blixer is. Blixer attacks him with all his power when Cyan himself get through the remaining corrupted plants, but Cyan managed to dodge it and gets to Blixer crown, while shaken off his tail, where the last triangle is and uncorrupts the triangle. However, during the process, Blixer watches in disapproval and blasts the Cube off the tower. He then tries to reclaim the Triangle but then gets stabbed in the head, which resulted him becoming more powerful worst then before.

Cube gets walled in by spiked circles while Blixer attacks him with his tears and worm-like creatures break out of some of the circles, becoming a iconic, spike-laden form with a jaw and sharp teeth. As Blixer attacks him more aggressively with the chomping on his teeth, Cube safely dodge it, until spiked circles to edges, limiting where Cube can go until he is forced into the Boss's mouth, which lead him to get killed. As Blixer left the now dead Cyan, his friends mourning the loss of Cyan, but when the two triangles on Cube head start pulsing, he tries to revive the player and succeeds, becoming a colorful ultra form of himself.

Blixer, who is still close to Cyan and his friends, confronts him again with the same chomping, but quickly realizes that Cyan himself is now indestructible. As CYan starts shooting bullets by a bright, double-helix shaped laser with Blixer attempts on killing Cyan's friends but protecting himself failing. After many ways of trying to kill the ultra-form of Cube, Blixer got defeated, while Cyan gets the last triangle in the process. As the 3 triangles come together, it revives Sun alive again with the 3 now cured triangles destroying the tower as well, which also restoreted Paradise being back to the state it was before as well as bring the Tree of Life back.

A few weeks later, a party was held for Cyan and his friends heroic act on saving the world of Paradise, where Cyan used one of the triangles to restored Blixer, which also resulted him redeeming himself becomes a DJ for the party with all of the friends onstage, and with all of the other uncorrupted plants as the audience.

After the credits, the ending reveals that a corrupted triangle have got into Earth and fell into the bin, before being founded by a man.

Cast

 * Michael Cera as Cyan, a rather energetic and active small cyan cube created from the tree of life, he is a little selfish, reckless and a bit stubborn at times, but still has good intentions as well as very determined. He is based off the Blue Square, who is the main protagonist of Just Shapes & Beats's storyline.
 * Vincent Tong as Cube, a big blue well cube. He is more shy, quieter and less talkative than Cyan, but mostly friendly, caring and simply protective over Cyan, doing his best not to get him eaten by Blixer, acting like a father figure to him. But he later got corrupted after Heli failed to push off the corrupted triangle; however he later got cured. Cyan often refers to him as ‘friend’ He based off the big cube in the games.
 * Devon Bostick as Blixer, a very selfish, dangerous, sarcastic and mean plant that got severely corrupted after Cyan accidentally stabs him with a triangle. The result of his corruption caused him to corrupted paradise and the plants, getting the tree life by taking advantage, obstacles to stop Cyan and his friend, creating Barracuda, building a tower factory to corrupted any remaining plants of Paradise and stabs himself with the last piece of the tree of life, which only corrupted him more. He later got relieved and redeemed himself in the credits, by being a DJ for the party. He was based on the boss in the games.
 * Ashleigh Ball as Barracuda, a mysterious but violent triangular-like entity that Blixer made with corrupted triangles to try to destroy as well as stop Cyan by protecting the caves. She is very tough, rude, aloof, cynical, greedy and callous, doing her best to kill Cyan, but ultimately fails. Despite her masculine looks, she is actually a girl with Cyan mostly mistaken for one, much to her own annoyance and anger. She is based on the boss in Barracuda.
 * Avril Lavigne as Barracuda singing voice.
 * Lee Tockar as Lycanthropy, another plant that got corrupted, this time by accidentally falling into the cave's corrupted rivers when the caves suddenly started to shake, causing a rock he stood on to fall apart into the rivers. As the corrupted plant, He is more playful, childish and less serious than Barracuda, but still violent as her, but he later got cured thanks to Cyan after he got killed in the volcano. After he got cured, he become friendlier.
 * Lee Tockar also voices Captain, a loyal, fearless, honest and brave boat-shape friend that Cyan made to help him sail across the corrupted sea of paradise, from a lot of corrupted plants that takeover the sea thanks to Blixer. He can only swim on water, but is capable of going on land in the credits. He is based off the boat in the game and speaks in a pirate accent.
 * Julie Lemieux as The Sun, a floating brightly coloured yellow star protector of the tree of life. She is very caring, kind, gentle and friendly to Cyan, his friends and most of the plants in Paradise, acting like a mother figure to them as well as very protective of the tree, trying to stop any possible threats, as a caretaker for it, hoping to protect all the Paradise inhabitants from any danger to the world with the tree of life. but Blixer took the tree, resulting in her getting killed; however Cyan later relieved her after the tree of life was saved and taken back to its original place as well as making Paradise back to its original beautiful state as it was before. She based off the sun in the game.
 * Shannon Chan-Kent as Heli, a helpful, warm-hearted, optimistic and loving helicopter-like friend that loves hugging people whom Cyan made when he sneaked into the industry, a factory that Blixer made to corrupt any remaining plants. She helped Cyan after he got stuck into the conveyor belt saws and got through most of the industry machinery by using her blades. She based off the helicopter in the game.

The additional voices also feature Christian Potenza, Tabitha St. Germain, Sam Vincent, Katie Griffin, Robert Tinkler and Andrea Libman, voicing various plants e.g corrupted in the industry factory, some of the plants in the audience. One of the music artists of the original games, Shirobon (credited as his real name Michael Cordedda) made a special guest appearance as the man who found the last alive corrupted triangle.

Home media
Just Shapes and Beats: The Movie was released for digital download by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on February 29th, 2028, before it was released on Ultra HD Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray, and DVD formats on May 15th, 2028. The movie is made available for purchase on the iTunes Store in Canada.

Bonus Shorts
The Bonus Shorts are 15 minutes 2D animated shorts that are include with Blu-Ray releases only, presumably taking some time after the main events of the movie. According to the short's credits, the animation is done by Jam Filled Entrainment. Here is a list of Special Features from the film:

Exclusive Characters

 * Ian Ho as Block, Cube lazy nephew who loves gaming.
 * Benita Ha as Cubicle, Cube older sister and Block mother. She is very serious and somewhat snooty as well, but often teases Cube.
 * Terry McGurrin as Brick, Cubicle husband, Cube brother-in-law and Block father. While he equally snooty as his wife, he somewhat foolish.
 * Athena Karkanis as an unnamed female plant that Lycanthropy has a crush on.
 * Abigail Journey Oliver as Lunla, Sun bratty and rude niece.
 * Alison Pill as Crescent, younger sister. She fairly shyer and more aloof than her.
 * Eric Keenleyside as the Triangle Stabber, a male triangle-plant that stabs innocent shapes or plants.
 * Josette Jorge as Cube mom.
 * Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Cube dad.