Just Shapes and Beats: The Movie

"It's Just Shapes and Beats"

- Slogan

Just Shapes and Beats: The Movie is a 2027 computer-animated adventure musical film produced by Netflix Animation, Reel FX Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks with animation services provided by Pearl Studios while distributed by Netflix. The film is based on the popular action rhythm video game of the same name, developed and published by the Canadian indie game studio, Berzerk Studio association with too. Now following the big blue Cube, simply named Cube and the main character, Blue Sqaure, who named Cyan for the film.

The movie had a limited theatrical release on May 31, 2027, in honor of Just Shapes and Beats anniversary, prior to streaming on Netflix on June 26th. It received generally positive reviews and receptions from critics and audiences around the world and with was a success at the box office. A possible sequel or TV series interested as said by Berezerk Studio, though it unknown whether or not if Netflix will greenlight the idea.

DVD and Blue Ray Description
In Paradise, a world filled with shapely people who love their music, A cube named Cyan, was created from the tree of life to protect the lands from any kind of threats. But after a triangle stabs a plant, causing it to make a giant corruption named "Blixer", resulting in it terrorising and corrupting Paradise, it up to the cube and its friends to stop Blixer and the corruption, before it takes over their world, as troubles started to get into their paths!

Netflix Description
When a dangerous corruption is released into the peaceful musical world of Paradise, a small little cube named Cyan and his friends must save the day.

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.
 * Joseph Motiki 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.
 * 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 more friendlier,
 * 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.
 * Lee Tockar as 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.
 * 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 insturdy machinery by using her blades. She based off the helicopter in the game.
 * Sam Vincent as Plant, a simple plant that Cyan created in the opening of the movie with a triangle, however he later got crushed by Blixer himself.

The cast also features Christian Potenza, Tabitha St. Germain, Sam Vincent, Katie Griffin, Robert Tinkler and Andrea Libman, voicing various plants that got corrupted in the industry factory.

Development
On January 5th, 2026 Berzerk Studio announced on a blog post that Neftlix would write and direct a brand new animated film based on their hit indie game, action rhythm Just Shapes and Beats, with the title being known as 'Just Shapes & Beats: The Movie' with Cube along with Cyan designs for the movie.

3 weeks later, Netflix officially announced it on their Twitter that they will make a movie based on the Just Shapes and Beats game. . Then they said that they will team up with Reel FX Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks with Pearl Studios setting to help the animation services.

Animation and Designs
The film was animated by Reel FX Animation in Dallas and Sony Pictures Imageworks of Vancover. The usage of 3D and CGI animation was used, but the character designs are more different from the games, loosely based off the ones in Pink Corruption, a fan comic and animated fan series by Brittany Robinson (formerly known as LucasTheDubber), while the comic was created by QuadragonX. Making them have actual bodies, rather than being simple shapes. This is mostly because this allowed for the characters to have more personalities extended from the games according to Netflix.

Music
A lot of the independent artists such as Nitro Fun, Danimal Cannon, Tristam, Noisestorm and Pegboard Nerds, of the original game were settled to composed the score of the film, most were improvised from the original game music, like Corrupted, Long Live the New Fresh and Annihilate. But a new original song was featured in the credits, being a remix of all the music in the movie. A album of the movie was released on June 17th, 2027 under the label by Columbia Records, Sony Music Entertainment and Monster Cat.

Theatrical

 * May 31, 2027 (Untied States and Canada)
 * June 2th, 2027 (Worldwide)
 * June 26th, 2027 (Netflix)

A teaser of the film premiered at PAX 2026, New York Comic Con of 2026 before being uploaded to Netflix official channel on February 18th, 2027 as well as Berzerk Studios on February 21th, 2027. Before it was released in select theatres on May 31, 2027, before its Netflix worldwide debut on June 26th. Unlike the streaming release however, the theatrical release was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, rather than Netflix. Though in the Canadian theatrical releases, it was distributed by National Film Board of Canada.

Home Media

 * June 30th, 2027 (Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital HD) (USA and Canada)
 * July 8th, 2027 Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital HD) (UK, Worldwide)

Other than Netflix, the movie was released on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on June 30th, 2027, with the distribution done by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. A TV broadcast of the movie aired in ABC Me in October 2027 and ABC Iview in Australia as well as Great! Movies in the UK and Cartoon Network Canadian counterpart in November, 2027, similarly distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Merchandise
A gaming keyboard, backpacks, headphones and controller for the XBOX based off the cast was release during the release of May 31. Exclusively in the Philippines, UK, Brazil and Germany of Mcdonalds, happy meals would have figures and toys of the cast like Cube, Cyan, Heli, Captain or Blixer to advise the movie worldwide theatrical release in June 2th, 2027.

Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 108 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Just Shapes and Beats is what it is, just shapes and beats –followed by an amazing adventure and music that are huge beats, all off a game" Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews.