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 sequel of the film was released on August 10, 2029 called Just Shapes & Beats: The Movie 2.

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.

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, Cube 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, Cube 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, Cube ultimately defeated him. With him curing the triangle, he cured Cyan back to normal. Upon doing so, it result trigger the tower security and blocking to the main part of the tower. After Cube breaks all the security and with praises from his friends, Cube gets in the main part of the tower, on where Blixer is. Blixer attacks him with all his power when Cube himself get through the remaining corrupted plants, but Cube 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 Cube, but when the two triangles on Cyan 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 Cube starts shooting bullets by a bright, double-helix shaped laser with Blixer attempts on killing Cyan's friends or 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 the friends onstage, and with all of the other uncorrupted plants as the audience.

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 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.
 * 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 additional voices also feature 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. About three weeks later, Netflix officially announced on their Twitter account that they would make a movie based on the Just Shapes and Beats game. Then they said that they would team up with Reel FX Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks, with Pearl Studios setting up the animation services with the logo of the film being revealed on the same day.

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 compose 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. An album of the movie was released on June 17th, 2027 under the label by Columbia Records, Sony Music Entertainment and Monster Cat.

Soundtrack
A soundtrack album which that have all songs in the film was under the label by Columbia Records, Sony Music Entertainment and Monster Cat. The score was composed by independent artists such as Nitro Fun, Danimal Cannon, Tristam, Noisestorm and Pegboard Nerds, of the original game. The soundtrack was internationally on June 17th, 2027 both on CD and digital download on Beatport.


 * 1) Chronos - Danimal Cannon & Zef
 * 2) Milky Ways - Boss Fight
 * 3) Logic Gatekeeper - Danimal Cannon & Zef
 * 4) Long Live The New Fresh - Danimal Cannon
 * 5) New Game - Nitro Fun
 * 6) The Art of War - Chipzel
 * 7) Termination Shock - Saberpulse
 * 8) Sevcon - Big Giant Circles
 * 9) Cascade - Kubbi
 * 10) I'm Being Reelistic - Omnitica
 * 11) Barraucda - Noisestorm
 * 12) Dubwoofer Substep - Omnitica
 * 13) Cheat Codes - Nitro Fun
 * 14) Clash - Trip 40
 * 15) Chip Zeal - Big Giant Circles
 * 16) Lycanthropy - Cardi
 * 17) Cool Friends - Sliva Hound
 * 18) The Lunar Whale - Danimal Cannon
 * 19) Spectra - Chipzel
 * 20) Unlocked - Plesco
 * 21) Close To Me - Saberpulse
 * 22) Into the Zone - Shirobun
 * 23) Vindicate Me - Big Giant Circles
 * 24) Try This - Pegboard Nerds
 * 25) Finale Boss - Nitro Fun
 * 26) Annihilate - Destorid
 * 27) Till It's Over - Tristam

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 the 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.

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:

Marketing
The film was extensively promoted across multiple media platforms after the teaser was uploaded to Netflix official Youtube channel on February 18th, 2027 and a second on February 20th, 2027. With a gaming keyboard, backpack, headphones, and controller for the XBOX based on the characters were released on May 31, during the theatrical release of the movie itself as well as collectable figures of the characters. Exclusively in the Philippines, UK, Brazil and Germany of McDonald's, happy meals would have figures and toys of the characters like Cube, Cyan, Heli, Captain, or Blixer to advise the movie's worldwide theatrical release on June 2nd, 2027. TV spots were also aired. A novelization of the series was published by Scholastic Australia in 2028 as well as Bento Boxes, bracelets, glasses, hats and pants based off the characters.

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.

Sequel
Main Article: Just Shapes & Beats: The Movie 2

In November 2027, Berzerk Studio posted their expression of interest in a possible sequel to the movie itself following the film's massive success, hoping to continue more of Cyan and Cube's new adventures on the land of Paradise itself with the power of beats and shapes. On September 24th, 2028, Netflix announced through Deadline Hollywood that a sequel was scheduled for release on February 23, 2029 with Netflix Animation, Reel FX Animation, and Sony Pictures Imageworks returning for the production. On October 2, 2028, it was reported that the cast would reprise their respective roles, with new voice actors voicing new characters for the film. In January 16, 2029, it was announced that the sequel would be released on Netflix internationally on August 10, 2029, due to Pearl Studio not providing the animation services. In June 30th, 2029, a teaser of the film was uploaded to Netflix official channel.