Trivia / PAW Patrol: The Movie

• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • The film has some big-name celebrities among the voice cast, such as Jimmy Kimmel, Kim Kardashian-West and Randall Park.
  • In the Japanese dub, Liberty is voiced by Natsumi Abe of Morning Musume, notably her first media exposure since she temporarily retired due to childbirth.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting:
  • The Latin American Spanish dub offers a quite egregious case: The regular cast, which was voiced by Chilean voice actors, reprise their roles from the TV series, but Liberty, Ruben and Butch are voiced by Mexican celebrities, while there's none of them from the Chilean side. In this case, however, the addition of Mexican voice actors was necessary, given that the vast majority of production companies have the dubbing infrastructure for cinema based in Mexico.
  • Also applies to the original English version (for countries outside of the British Isles), with a mix of American and Canadian actors providing voice work.
• Demand Overload: When this movie was added to Paramount+, the service displayed error messages to those trying to view it.
• Dueling Works: With Clifford the Big Red Dog, another 2021 movie based on a preschool franchise involving dogs. The result was functionally a draw, as both movies performed very well and have had sequels announced, however, PAW Patrol ultimately grossed more.
  • Also with the Looney Tunes theatrical entry Space Jam: A New Legacy on a more iconic franchise wise level, which was released a month before this film, even though both films made roughly the same amount at the box office (Although A New Legacy made $12.3 million more), A New Legacy was poorly recived by critics, and became a Box Office Bomb due to the film being available on streaming on the same day as it's theatrical release, being not allowed in China and was made on a higher budget, PAW Patrol's film was also on streaming the same day as it's theatrical release, but was more successful due to the movie being made on a smaller budget, and was well received by critics, what also helped is that Paramount+ had less subscribers than HBO Max at the time, and the fact that this film DID see a Chinese theatrical release and grossed a lot in China due to the PAW Patrol franchise being extremely huge in China.
• International Coproduction: This film is a collaboration between the Canadian Spin Master and Elevation Pictures, and the American Paramount and Nickelodeon.
  • This is even more strange for people who live in the franchise's native region of Canada. As nobody would know that Paramount and Nickelodeon were also involved.
• The Other Darrin: The entire cast in the Greek dub was replaced. In the TV show, the heroes are all voiced by women, but in the movie they're voiced by child actors.
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • Jun'ichi Suwabe, the Japanese voice of Marty the news reporter, is a huge fan of PAW Patrol who watches the show regularly on his own despite being a full-grown adult and immediately accepted the role when offered.
  • Ditto for Jimmy Kimmel's role as Marty Muckraker in the original version of the film. He became a fan of the show via his daughter and has made several jokes about it on his show.
• Same Language Dub: As with the series the film is based on, the British English release had most of the characters redubbed with British voices.
• Screwed by the Network: Similar to Disney with Raya and the Last Dragon, PAW Patrol: The Movie wound up being blacklisted by a major US theater chain (Regal) over its simultaneous availability on streaming, with Paramount's terms being deemed unacceptable. The film still performed decently, however, and unlike Raya, it was available at Cinemark. Regal and Paramount apparently patched up their differences in time for the latter's next hybrid release, Clifford the Big Red Dog, which did play at the chain.
• Spoiled by the Merchandise: Liberty joining the team in the middle of the film was spoiled by various pieces of merchandise. In fact, one playset made for the movie was called "Liberty Joins The Team".
• What Could Have Been: Delores was originally going to be voiced by Janeane Garofalo, but ultimately, Kim Kardashian-West was cast.
• Short Run in Peru: Was released on August 9, 2021 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, nearly a week and a half before releasing in its home country of Canada.
  • A deleted storyboard can be seen on YouTube for a deleted nightmare sequence featuring Chase. Odds are that the main reason the scene was deleted because it would have been too dark for preschoolers.