The Splatoon Movie

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*The Splatoon Movie* (Or simply known as **Splatoon**) is a **2025 American computer-generated action-adventure comedy film** adapted from Nintendo's Splatoon franchise. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation, distributed by Universal Pictures, and in association with Nintendo.

The film took the elements from the first and second game, with adding new sub-plots and new characters. Following the story about Amy, a 14 year-old Inkling girl who recruit the other Inklings to their mission at Octo Valley to stop the army of Octolings and Octarians, lead by DJ Octavio along side Scarlet, from plotting to kidnap the Great Zapfish to unleash the power to demolish their hometown of Inkopolis.

*The Splatoon Movie* was released both in theaters and on streaming services, on May 25th 2025. It received positive reviews from critics, ad well as audiences, young, and old. It impressed **72%** and grossed **28%** of the majority of people.

## Plot

It is 2009, and it is Amy's 8th birthday, everyone is partying, Amy has some cake and plays outside with her friends Izzy and Katie. She and her friends find the gates to Octo Valley, her and her friends enter and start exploring Octo Valley, then out of nowhere, a gang of Octolings gang up on Amy, Izzy and Katie to bully them. Thankfully, Sophie comes and saves Amy and her friends, but however, she gets into a scuffle with the Octolings. Amy makes it back to her house, along with Izzy and Katie, but Sophie never returns, as she was killed by the Octolings.

6 years later, Amy is now 14 years old and getting ready for a Turf War, she grabs her splattershot and heads out to the Turf War arena. Amy heads to a city called "Inkopolis" where we are shown shots of Inkopolis Plaza and Inkopolis Square. Amy meets up with her friends Izzy and Katie, they chat for a while until it was time for the Turf War to begin.

The Turf War starts, Amy blasts orange ink at Team Blue, she accidently bumps into one of the blue teammates named Zach, she was embarrassed by the way that she bumped into him, everyone laughs while Team Blue splatter the rest of Team Orange. Time is up, Team Blue had won, everyone cheers for Team Blue, but Amy wasn't too happy with the result. Amy throws a fit on nation television and storms off back to her house.

The next day, Amy comes to school, everyone is still laughing at her, she sits at a table by herself. Zach sees Amy and sits with her, they both apologize to each other, they both forgive each other and become friends. The IHS Gang (Ryan, Sam and Jessica) enter the cafeteria, Ryan makes fun of Amy, which results in Amy snapping at Ryan angrily. Ryan throws a punch at Amy, but hits Zach instead, Zach and Ryan both get into a fight while Amy sneaks out. Amy runs down the hallway and finds Principal Lobster's office, Amy gets herself out of school by "Fake-sicking", and rushes home.

Amy heads back to her house to hide, Zach catches up with Amy, but he was badly beaten up. Ryan, Sam and Jessie find Amy's house and try to break in, but Amy's mother arrives just in time, the gang flee from Amy's house and into the alleyways. Amy's mother, who's name is Zoey, and Amy's father, who's name is Duncan, finds Amy and Zach, hiding in the living room. Amy tells her parents the whole "Bully story" and the "Turf War incident". Zoey and Duncan let's Zach stay at her house for the night.

The next morning, it is peaceful and quiet, Zach and Amy wake up and realize that Zoey and Duncan aren't present, she was missing. Amy and Zach look outside, only to see the Octoling Raids that were happening in the city, Amy and Zach sneak into Inkopolis and see the raids that were happening. Amy and Zach encounter Sarah and Lloyd, as well as Scarlet, DJ Octavio's future wife and the future queen of the Octolings, they attempt to kidnap Amy and Zach, but fail.

Zach and Amy find Jasper, Henry, Katie and Izzy confused about what's going on around them, with no time to lose, the Inklings jump down a manhole and hide in the sewers, Scarlet along with Sarah and Lloyd manage with the Inklings and try to capture them a second time, the Inklings hop on a wooden platform and start riding down the river of sewage, everyone falls off one by one except for Zach and Amy who manage to hold on the whole ride, they escape the sewers and hides on the edge of the border that separates Inkopolis and the woods apart from each other.

Ryan, Sam and Jessie hide in an abandoned shed, Ryan explains to Sam and Jessie that he wanted to make it up for Amy, revealing that he had a soft spot for her. Sarah and Lloyd find Ryan, Sam and Jessie, Ryan gets splattered by Scarlet, in front of Sam and Jessie's eyes, they both get kidnapped by Sarah and Lloyd and taken to Octo Valley, just like everyone else.

An Inkling that goes by the name "Agent 3" sees Zach and Amy sneaking out of Inkopolis, she goes up to Amy and talks to her about needing more Agents in the Squidbeak Program, Agent 3 gives Zach and Amy the opportunity to become Agents in the Squidbeak Program. Amy excepts the opportunity, but she needed to save the Squid Sisters (Callie and Marie) so they can approve it, Amy and Zach head off into the woods, where their journey begins.

Amy and Zach meet up with Jasper, Henry, Izzy and Katie in the woods, it turns out that Jasper, Henry, Izzy and Katie found each other and ran away from Inkopolis, so they hid in the woods with Cap'n Cuttlefish. Zach then gets a news alert on his Squid-phone that the Squid Sisters (Callie and Marie) had been kidnapped by Octolings, Cap'n Cuttlefish gets sad and angry about his granddaughters being kidnapped, so he and everyone else set off to Octo Valley.

Meanwhile in Octo Valley, Callie and Marie get put into cages, Sarah and Lloyd are given orders to go and find the remaining Inklings and capture them. Scarlet informs DJ Octavio that most of the Inklings have been captured, but six Inklings were still missing, Octavio loses his cool, but then calms down and orders Scarlet to go and look for the remaining Inklings.

Amy and her friends explore the woods, all of the boys in the group discuss about how Zach likes Amy. Suddenly, Sarah and Lloyd, along side Scarlet and a gang of Octarians, find the group of Inklings and try to ambush them, but Sarah and Lloyd run away in fear after they see a Giant Colossal Crab, which was heading their way.

The Colossal Crab planned on eating the Inklings one by one, Scarlet takes him on, the Colossal Crab throws Scarlet away. The Inklings attempt to run from the Giant Crab, they split up and go in different directions to try to confuse the Colossal Crab, but he was a lot smarter than the Inklings thought. He grabs Amy and tries to eat her, but luckily, a large bolder kills the Crab, there were two Octolings, they were the ones who saved the group of Inklings.

The first Octoling's name was Emma and the second Octoling's name was Harold, it turns out that they were both kicked out from Octo Valley for being "Useless", Amy and the group of Inklings come together and decide on if they should let the two Octolings come with them or if they should attack the two Octolings, they decide to let the two Octolings join them and continue on their journey. Scarlet, Sarah and Lloyd heading back to base, Scarlet gets angry with Sarah and Lloyd, Sarah and Lloyd are now very scared, DJ Octavio walks in the room with his dad Alfred, Scarlet and Octavio come up with a plan to capture the remaining Inklings and start getting ready.

Amy and her friends are sitting at a campfire, Harold tells the guys stories about what Octo Valley is like, Jasper starts to develop feelings for Emma, but keeps it to himself. Amy goes for a walk in the woods, but little did she know, that would be one of the biggest mistakes that she would ever make. She gets ambushed by Scarlet, who stalked Amy and her friends, Scarlet reveals to Amy that she was the one who killed Sophie. Amy gets upset and tries to fight Scarlet, but Scarlet disappears, Amy heads into her tent and tries to go to sleep. Amy has a nightmare about Sophie getting killed by Scarlet, she wakes up and goes to Zach to talk to him about the nightmare that she had. Zach comforts Amy and tries to make her feel better, Zach let's Amy sleep with him for the night, they both go to sleep as the night goes by.

The next morning, everyone wakes up and continues exploring the woods, Emma leads the gang to Octo Valley. They find the doors to the Tenta-Base, everyone comes together and comes up with a plan, they let Amy, Zach, Jasper, Harold and Emma sneak into the Tenta-Base and rescue the Squid Sisters while Henry, Katie and Izzy (Who are known as Group A) stay behind and go against several Octolings.

Group B (Amy, Zach, Jasper, Harold and Emma) make it to the throne room and find Callie and Marie in their cages, they try and rescue them, but they encounter Sarah, Lloyd, Scarlet and a few other Octolings and Octarians. The Octolings capture Group B and put them into one big cage, one of the Octolings flirts with Zach, Amy gets irritated and knocks the Octoling out, she then grabs her phone and calls Cap'n Cuttlefish.

Meanwhile outside of the Tenta-Base, Group A were watching out for Octolings, Cuttlefish gets a call from Amy and gets Group A to rescue Group B. They sneak inside the Tenta-Base and start looking for Group B, but on the way, they encounter Alfred. He was much bigger than the Inklings, but Group A manage to ambush him and defeat him, Group A then find Group B in their big cage, they free them and head back outside to keep watching out for Octolings.

Group B proceed to go deeper into the Tenta-Base, they find Callie and Marie, who are still in their cages, the gang free Callie and Marie and begin to make their way out of the Tenta-Base. They get lost inside of the massive fortress, Amy calls Cap'n Cuttlefish again to get Group A to come and get her and the gang again, but Cuttlefish and Group A were too busy, fighting off Octolings and Octarians.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Scarlet along side Sarah, Lloyd and a few other Octolings, find Group B again. Scarlet orders Sarah, Lloyd and all of the other Octolings and Octarians to attack and capture the remaining Inklings, the Octolings charge at the Inklings, everyone battle each other while Sarah and Lloyd just sit down and watch while eating popcorn.

Amy takes on Scarlet by shooting orange ink at her, Scarlet starts firing black ink at Amy, Scarlet chases Amy down a hallway. They both swordfight each other with metal poles into the throne room, they whack each other constantly, Scarlet knocks Amy's pole from out of her hand and points her Octo shot at Amy. Scarlet and Amy stare at each other for a good while, Amy thinks fast and shoots a hanging platform, which crushes Scarlet to death.

Scarlet is now defeated, but unfortunately, Amy falls unconscious from her injuries, DJ Octavio finds that Scarlet had been squashed by a metal platform and both Sarah and Lloyd were doing nothing, Octavio was mad. The Inklings had to go up against Octavio now, Octavio plays his music and tries to brainwash the Inklings, but that fails when one of the Octarians knocks over a bottle of ink onto the cord of Octavio's DJ set, the set electrocutes Octavio and knocks him out.

Octavio is now defeated, but the Squid Sisters still needed to be rescued. The Inklings break the Squid Sisters free from their cages, but Jasper accidently knocks over a candle, which sets the throne room on fire. The Inklings manage to evacuate the Tenta-Base, but Amy was still in the base, Zach goes back in and finds Amy. He carries Amy thought the fortress and finds an exit, Zach jumps out just in time before the fortress collapses, everyone heads back to Inkopolis safely.

Amy wakes up in the hospital, where her friends are by her side, Zach confesses his love to Amy, with Amy admitting her feelings for Zach too, they both kiss while Jasper confesses his love to Emma, with Emma doing the same thing to Jasper. 2 days later, Amy had recovered from her injuries and everyone is is back in Inkopolis, Zach and Amy become Squidbeak Agents, a celebration party takes place, everyone dances to the music and then the credits role.

The credits get interrupted, Octavio wakes up, he was very lucky that he was in a good spot when the fortress collapsed, he gets upset about Scarlet's death and his fortress being destroyed. An Octoling named Lawrence sees Octavio and tells him about his plan, Octavio listens as Lawrence explains his plan. Octavio goes with the plan, they both laugh evilly as the credits role once again.

## Characters

(OC) = Original characters for this animation adaptation, so please do not steal. Characters are sorted by order of appearance in The Splatoon Movie.

* Amy, a 14 year-old orange Inkling girl who is the film's main protagonist. (Note: She's based off the official nameless orange Inkling girl from the original game, not an OC)
* Sophie, Amy's older sister who as an Agent in the Squeakbeak Program. (OC)
* Duncan, Amy's father and a former Squeakbeak Agent in Inkopolis. (OC)
* Zoey, Amy's mother. (OC)
* Katie, a kind lime green inkling girl. (Note: She's based on an official nameless lime green Inkling girl from the original game, not an OC)
* Izzy, a pink optimistic, enthusiastic, but annoying and sometimes whiny inkling girl. (Note: She's based on an official nameless pink Inkling girl from the original game, not an OC)
* Zach, a 14 year-old Inkling boy who is Amy's love interest. (Note: He's based off the official nameless blue Inkling boy from the original game, not an OC)
* Henry, an intelligent purple Inkling boy. (Note: He's based off the official nameless purple Inkling boy from the original game, not an OC)
* Jasper, a timid turquoise inkling boy. (Note: He's based on an official nameless turquoise Inkling boy from the original game, not an OC)
* The Squid Sisters, two of Inkopolis' popular pop idol and new reporters for Inkopolis News Time. Despite their name, they're actually cousins. Also, they're the granddaughters of Cap'n Cuttlefish.
	+ Callie
	+ Marie
* Mr. Tentacles, a famous director Inkling in Inkopolis. (OC)
* The IHS Bullies
	+ Ryan, a tough mean male pink Inkling bully. (OC)
	+ Sam, a dark green tomboyish Inkling girl. (OC)
	+ Jessica, a yellow Inkling girl. (OC)
* Principal Lobster, a lobster that is the principal of Inkopolis High School. (OC)
* Seth, a science teacher in Inkopolis High School. (OC)
* Tyrone, a gym teacher in Inkopolis High School. (OC)
* Johnathan, a math teacher in Inkopolis High School. (OC)
* Mark, an art teacher in Inkopolis High School. (OC)
* Isabella, Zach's mother and a nurse for Inkopolis Hospital. (OC)
* Agent 3, an Agent in the Squidbeak Program.
* Octarians and Octolings, the octopus-like creatures that live in Octo Valley, they're the Inkling's enemies.
	+ Scarlet, an Octoling girl who is the love interest of DJ Octavio the secondary leader of the Octarians. She's also a secondary antagonist. (OC)
	+ DJ Octavio, the leader of the Octarians and the main antagonist.
	+ Sarah, a smart, but weird Octoling girl. (OC)
	+ Lloyd, a tall, but idiotic Octoling boy. (OC)
	+ Alfred, DJ Octavio's father. (OC)
* The OctoGang
	+ Octavius, a very short Octarian. (OC)
	+ Jay, a tall and slim Octarian. (OC)
	+ Bob, a sarcastic but intelligent Octarian. (OC)
* Jelonzo, a jellyfish shop keeper of Jelly Fresh.
* Annie, a hipster female sea anemone shop keeper of Cooler Heads.
* Moe, a loud-mouth, sarcastic, rude, and criticizing clownfish who lives on Annie's hair.
* The Giant Crab, a Giant Crab that loves to eat Inklings. (OC)
* Emma, the once Octotrooper who has turned her bad Octoling Life Upside-down to ally with The Inklings. (OC)
* Harold, a former Octotrooper and Emma's twin brother. (OC)
* Lawrence, an intelligent and tall Octoling boy who appears right at the end of the film. (OC)

## Voice Cast

### Main Characters

* Anna Kendrick as Amy
* Scott Menville as Zach
* Josh Gad as Jasper
* Tom Kenny as Henry
* Abbi Jacobson as Katie
* Ariel Winter as Izzy

### Supporting Characters

* Phil Cornwell as Cap'n Cuttlefish
* Kate McKinnon as Callie
* Jill Talley as Marie
* Tara Strong as Emma, some of the Inkling girls and additional roles
* Brian Froud (Actor) as Harold
* Kaitlyn Robrock as Zoey
* Drew Nelson as Duncan
* Snoop Dogg as Crusty Sean
* George Lopez as Judd
* Justin Long as Lil Judd

### Minor Characters

* Jessica DiCicco as Sophie
* Christian Potenza as Mr. Tentacles
* Megan Fahlenbock as Sam
* Novie Edwards as Jessica
* Kari Wahlgren as Agent 3
* Bill Hader as Sheldon
* Dan Castellaneta as Jelly and some of the additional roles
* Awkwafina as Annie
* Rob Paulson as Moe
* Nelson De Freitas as Spyke
* Benedict Cumberbatch as Seth
* Chris Parnell as Johnathan
* Kenan Thompson as Tyrone
* Phil Gallagher as Mark
* Teresa Gallagher as Isabella

### Antagonists

* Adam Driver as DJ Octavio
* Angelina Jolie as Scarlet
* Scarlett Johansson as Sarah
* Thomas F. Wilson as Lloyd and Ryan
* Clancy Brown as Alfred
* Seth Rogen as Octavius
* Nick Kroll as Jay
* Rodger Bumpass as Bob
* Brad Garrett as The Giant Crab

### YouTuber Cameos

* Alex Vasquez (Alex Spider) as Himself
* Clauds Polito (LizzietheRatcicle15) as Herself
* George Miller (Filthy Frank/Pink Guy/Joji) as Principal Lobster
* Aaron McKee (TheVolgun) as Lawrence

### Additional Roles

* Conrad Vernon, John DiMaggio, Tara Strong, Bill Hader, Dan Castellaneta, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Maurice LaMarche, Beck Bennett, Tim Curry, Dan Russell, Seth McFarlane, John Kricfalusi, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Carell, Roger Craig Smith, Steve Buscemi, Roger L. Jackson, Tom Kane, Mark Hamill, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Mr. Lawrence as the additional roles.

## Production

### **Development**

On March 5th, 2021, DreamWorks Animation teamed up with Nintendo to make The Splatoon Movie. Nintendo gave DreamWorks Animation the opportunity to come up with their own story for the film, so they started off by playing the first Splatoon video game for "Research" and then thought of a story. The character designs were hand drawn by Glen Keane and Chris Sanders and then the characters were computer generated after coming up with proper designs.

### **Voice Acting**

The voice acting was done by using Rango's technic, It was done by getting the actors and actresses to physically act out what the script said while doing their voice dialogue with being recorded. This was done to get more realism and accuracy for the animation. This also helped with the animation process, as the animators could see where to animate the characters' movements and their lip syncing.

### **Animation**

The animation process was more trickier, because they had to not "Stuff up" on the Inkling's canonical biology. They got Hisashi Nogami, who helped Nintendo make the original Splatoon video game, to help the animators with the Inkling's canonical biology, such as what their weaknesses were, how they moved around, what they were physically capable of doing, as well as what materials they would of had if they looked "Realistic". An animation error was spotted where all the characters onscreen were stripped of their clothing for a split second. This was found by the animators, and fixed straight away.

### **Music**

The original composers for the first Splatoon game's soundtrack (Ryo Nagamatsu and Toru Minegishi) made most of the soundtrack for the film, with Henry Jackman as the composer for the film's background music. They also got Pinkfong and Skrillex to make some of the music as well. Most of the music was Dubstep, Techno and Cyberpunk themed, the only song that wasn't fully electronic themed was Night In Inkopolis. It did some electronic stuff in it, but it was mostly just glockenspiels.

### **Test Audience**

When the producers did a screening with a test audience, parents complained that the death scenes were really uncomfortable to watch, so the animators of the film had to reanimate all the death scenes, and make them appear offscreen, but still easy to tell they happened. The audio was apparently really quiet, and hard to understand, so that was fixed straight away by the sound engineers.

## Soundtrack

### Original

1. Splatter Riot!
2. Turf War
3. Chase Around The Street
4. Night In Inkopolis
5. Octo Rock!
6. Inklings and Octolings (Are So Divided)
7. Brainwashed (A cover version of "Clint Eastwood" by The Gorillaz)
8. Dumber Than You Think
9. Ink & Love
10. What's The Point of Fighting Anymore?

### Used

1. "Say Something" by A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera (Used during The Opening)
2. "City of Color", the Splatoon OST (Used during The Opening)
3. "Press Start" by MDK (Used during Scene 1)
4. "Cows" by Cyriak (Used during Scene 2, along with "Chase Around The Street")
5. "Ink Me Up", the Splatoon OST (Used during Scene 3)
6. "Beat It" by Michael Jackson (Used during Scene 11)
7. "Can You Point Your Fingers (And Do The Twist?)" by The Wiggles (Used during Scene 11)
8. "Maritime Memory", the Splatoon OST (Used during the credits)
9. Thunder by Imagine Dragons (Used in one of the trailers)
10. Monster Men by Iggy Pop (Used in one of the trailers)

## Transcript

* Transcript
* The Splatoon Movie Trailers

## Gallery

Film's logo (With background)Film's logo (Transparent)Official DVD cover (Australia)AmyZachJasperHenryKatieIzzyAmy, Zach, Jasper, Henry, Katie and IzzyThe Squid Sisters (Callie & Marie)Cap'n Craig CuttlefishCrusty SeanJuddLi'l JuddDuncanZoeySophieDJ OctavioScarletSarahLloydOctolingsOctarianDJ Octavio's Octobot
## Trivia

* This is the first time that DreamWorks Animation made a film based off a video game.
* Popular Splatoon YouTubers Alex Spider and LizzietheRatcicle15 make a cameo in the film.
* The film takes place in the years 1995, 2009, and 2015.
* Aaron McKee (Better known online as "TheVolgun") was chosen to voice Lawrence, because his voice for SCP-049 (From the SCP Foundation games) was considered to be "Perfect" for the character.
* Originally, DJ Octavio was going to have effects on his voice to sound like Kylo Ren (From the Star Wars Franchise), but after a test run, kids found it "Too scary", so it was changed before the film's release.
	+ However, Adam Driver (The voice of DJ Octavio) improvised the voice by doing a sinister, but not too scary voice. As a matter of fact, Adam's improvised voice was so different to his normal voice that nobody recognized him.
* The Splatoon Movie is DreamWorks Animation's longest feature-length film, with it's runtime being 112 minutes (1 hour, 52 minutes) long, beating the runtime of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World by 8 minutes.
* Both Annie and Moe were never used in the film due to timing issues.
	+ However, both of their voices were heard in Scene 13.
* The voices of Cap'n Cuttlefish (Phil Cornwell), and Spyke (Nelson De Freitas) are actually the voices of Murdoc Niccals, and 2-D from the English virtual band Gorillaz. However, 2-D's voice changed in 2017, so the character is now currently being voiced by Kevin Bishop.
	+ Phil Cornwell has been the voice of Murdoc Niccals since year 2000.
	+ Nelson De Freitas was the voice of 2-D from year 2000 to 2017.
* An Octoling boy in the crowd of angry Octarians during Scene 3 was wearing a Gorillaz Demon Days shirt.
* Desti (From the Australian web series "SMG4", 2018-2019) and her gang, Octoposse, make a small cameo in Scene 15.
	+ Desti was also mentioned in Scene 14, along with Meggy Spletzer.

### Sequels

* The Splatoon Movie 2: Sanitized Attack!
* The Splatoon Movie 3: Inktopia (Coming soon)