The Splatoon Movie (Nintendo+Illumination)

The Splatoon Movie is a 2028 CGI animated film by Illumination Entertainment and Nintendo. It has been announced by the official Splatoon account shortly after the FinalFest ends and the final major update releases in October 2024. Phil Lord and Chris Miller directs the film and their first Illumination film in history directed.

The film has an all-star voice cast starring Marsai Martin, Keegan-Michael-Key and Ken Jeong and releases in global cinemas June 9th 2028.

The film focuses on 4 teens found a Wii U that teleports them to a video game called Splatoon as Inklings. They try to stop DJ Octavio from destroying Inkopolis in order to escape the game.

Plot:
The movie begins with a man who is walking across the streets of Brooklyn on a rainy night until he finds a glowing console and a game in the trash that he finds interesting. He takes it and gets chased by an angry cat until he gets back home.

He tests it out to find out the game is sucking him into the world of Splatoon with a white light that transitions to a commercial of Splatoon (you’re a kid you’re a squid) where we get introduced to Sara, who wants to get the game but her parents remind her it’s her birthday tomorrow. Sara arrives at Inkofield High where she meets her friends, Mitchell, Patricia and Rui.

She gets builled by Emma and her friends but Rui scares them away. As they make their way home, they meet Patricia’s mum and he talks about a mysterious console with a stolen copy of the game located in the attic. They went up and interact the console to find out the game was sucking them in the game!

The 4 teens ended up in the game as inklings and they all freak out, Rui bumped into some inkling girls in Inkopolis City and he gets embarrassed. A news broadcast from the Squid Sisters announcing that the Great Zapfish is stolen by DJ Octavio and soon invade Inkopolis City. Sheldon introduces to the teens and teaches them the weapons and “squid form”. Mitchell told Sara they need to beat DJ Octavio in order to get out of the game. We get introduced to DJ Octavio where he finds a plan to invade Inkopolis City.

Sara’s mum is confused about where her daughter is until a news broadcast about 4 missing teens in Brooklyn. Back in the game, Sara, Mitchell, Patricia and Rui get prepared for their first turf war game and Sheldon wishes them good luck. When they arrive to Blackbelly Skatepark, they find out that Emma and her friends is what they’re fighting against, Emma assumes that she and her friends bought the game from Online. The teens fight the bullies in 3 minutes and Rui is already splatted by a charger. Mitchell had a weak roller but one has a bigger roller enough to crush him. Sara is already scared they’ll never get out of the game but Patricia is on it and throws a bomb on the bullies and Emma but one got splatted and the other missed. 1 minute is on the clock and the 3 on Sara’s team has respawned. They team up to defeat the bullies but they managed to defeat the 3. Sara has a catfight against Emma but she managed to defeat her.

Time is up and the bullies won the match. Mitchell knows that they can win and follow the rules and Sara agrees. Back in Brooklyn, Patricia’s mum is searching around the house for the missing teens but she can’t find them. Meanwhile in a fort of Octo Valley. DJ Octavio calls out his army and preforms his iconic rap musical number. Back in the game, the teens went back to Sheldon and he tells them that they need to improve harder as we go through a montage of the 4 training and battling in turf war as well as getting new gear and weapons.

We go back to Brooklyn where the 4 teen’s parents meet. Patricia’s mum told them about her missing husband getting a present for her daughter but somehow disappeared with a console. She put the console on the attic and told her daughter she can’t play the game. They were horrified about the backstory and start investigating. Back in the game, the inklings start seeing the sky turning red and freak about about DJ Octavio’s arrival. He repreforms his own rap song until Sara, Mitchell, Rui and Patricia saw him. DJ Octavio knew about Patricia but she gets confused about it until she finds out it’s her dad! DJ Octavio told her his backstory as the opening scene replays with additional scenes. Rui knows about it and they pull out their weapons as the final battle begins.

The octolings attack the 4 teens but with Sheldon’s courage and have bigger weapons enough to defeat them. A battle sequence happens with them fighting the Octarians and DJ Octavio seemed mad about them until the final battle starts. DJ Octavio went so strong at the 4 and crushed down all of them. Sara had no hope until she remembers Emma telling her she’s a noob and will get bad. Sara had enough and activates her special know as the bomb rush.

The Squid Sisters come around and preforms the Caliamari Inkatation. Sara fights against DJ Octavio until she gives out her final blow with a burst bomb. DJ Octavio gets splatted and Inkopolis City is saved! Callie and Marie give the 4 teens a metal each and returned back into the real world. They are reunited by their families and Sara tells her school about her adventure. They also return to the game to celebrate a splatfest held by the Squid Sisters. The movie ends with an Octoling inside a liquid tube, opening her eyes.

Cast:
Marsai Martin as Sara

Nicolas Cantu as Mitchell

Lana Condor as Patricia

Shamiek Moore as Rui

Selena Gomez as Callie

Miley Cyrus as Marie

Keegan Michael-Key as Sheldon

Ken Jeong as DJ Octavio/the man from the beginning/backstory, who turns out to be Patricia’s dad

Jenny Slate as Emma

TBA as Sara’s mum

Tom Kenny as Sara’s dad

TBA as Patricia’s mum

Tara Strong as a Octoling Solider

And LOTS of additional voices!