PAW Patrol: The Movie
Dir: Cal Brunker
Cast(Voices): Iain Armitage, Lilly Bartlam, Will Brisbin, Ron Pardo
Rating: 3/5

Nickleodian’s animated Adventure series (on TV since 2013), the Canadian merchandise friendly “PAW Patrol” gets a big-screen incarnation and its quite a rollicking fun ride for the tiny tots and adults( if you go in with the right mindset). It’s not high-brained stuff but it’s extremely engaging and entertaining.

For an audience not quite clued in to the TV series, the plot headlines a boy named Ryder (Will Brisbin), the human leader of a group of adorable puppies; Marshall (Kingsley Marshall), Skye (Lilly Bartlam), Rubble (Keegan Hedley), Rocky (Callum Shoniker), Zuma (Shayle Simons) and Chase (Iain Armitage) - each with a special set of talents, a Transformer-like vehicle – and a rhyming catch-phrase that has a lasting imprint on childhood memory. Every episode has an audacious rescue to accomplish and it’s all about daring-do, courage and teamwork. In this movie there’s more than one rescue mission (obviously) but the main theme is about a corrupt Mayor Humdinger (Ron Pardo) attempting to turn the bustling Adventure City into a state of chaos, being brought-to-book by Ryder and the pups.