The Baldi's Basics Movie (2024 film)

The Baldi's Basics Movie is a 2024 American computer generated film made by DreamWorks Animation. It was released in theaters and onto steaming services on January 5th, 2024, and the DVD version was published on July 13th, 2024.

The film focuses on nine high school students named Samara, Emma, Ezekiel, Dave, Ryan, Scarlet, Sarah, Harold and Emily. The students get into trouble with their math teacher, Mr. Baldimore, and have to face the measuring consequences. After being mocked of his baldness by his student, Mr. Baldimore plans a fieldtrip, where it goes wrong very quickly. After losing his temper with his students, he hides seven notebooks across the school for his students to find while he chases them with his ruler.

Plot
Samara wakes up, has her breakfast, gets ready and starts walking to school. Samara meets up with her best friend, Emma, and then continues walking to school with her. The two girls meet up with Scarlet and Emily, and head to school, which is Baldi's Schoolhouse, where it's total chaos until the bell rings.

The girls head to class. A group of boys named Dave, Ezekiel and Ryan, see a boy named Harold getting beaten up by the school bully, Maurice. Thankfully, Ezekiel's older sister, Ash, beats up Maurice and saves Harold from humiliation. The boys head to class.

A teacher, Mr. Baldimore, comes into the classroom, and starts teaching the class about math and numbers. Maurice, being the trouble maker he is, throws a paper ball at Mr. Baldimore, calling him "Baldi". The class start doing the same thing, making Mr. Baldimore have a mental breakdown and leave the classroom.

The class move on to their next lesson, which is art with Mrs. Bennett. The class is taught how to make sculptures out of clay. The class procced to make their own clay sculptures, with a lot of them pixelated and censored for comedic effect. With all the goofiness in the art room, Samara doesn't stop thinking about what happened earlier with Mr. Baldimore and his mental breakdown.

The lunch bell rings. Everyone rushes outside and starts playing with each other in the playground. Samara notices that Mr. Baldimore went home early, while the others laugh about it and continue playing. The bell rings again, for it is the last lesson for the day. The class has cooking with Mr. Sean. In a fun way, Mr. Sean teaches the class how to make the most ridiculous cakes. The class proceed to make their own cakes, some of them vanilla, some of them chocolate, and some of them strawberry.

It is home time, and everyone immediately rushes out the door and starts running home like wild animals. Samara walks with Emma, and then goes home to her loving parents, Charlie and Samantha. Mr. Baldimore is at his home, where he complains to his wife about his students making fun of his baldness. Baldi gets an idea, and plans a field trip for the students to show then he is a "nice guy".

Meanwhile, at Samara's house, Emma comes over for dinner. Samara's mom and dad heads out to a meeting with their boss, Mr. Grammar. Samara and Emma discuss about Mr. Baldimore and how he might give everyone punishments for making fun of his baldness. Samara looks out though her window to see Mr. Baldimore at his house planning something. Samara gets worried that Mr. Baldimore could be planning their punishments. Emma leaves, and Samara goes to bed.

It is morning, Samara wakes up and gets ready for school. She meets up with Emma again, and heads to school with her. The two girls head inside of the school and go to class. Mr. Baldimore walks into his classroom with a hat and backpack on him, and informs the students that he had planned a field trip and everyone is allowed to come. Everyone gets on the bus, and Mr. Baldimore drives off with the students.

An hour later, the bus pulls up in the woods. The students get off the bus and set tents up. The field trip is going to last the whole day, which gets Samara a little bit worried. She meets up with the girls, where they discuss about how gross the place is and have fun with each other for a while. Later, Harold and Maurice get into a fight, which Harold, to everyone's surprise, wins. Mr. Baldimore gets angry with the boys and then gets everyone to get back on the bus, where he drives the students back to school.

After 3 hours of boring lessons, it is finally home time again. Samara goes home and sits down of her couch, exhausted from doing a lot of work. Samara's parents get back from work and head inside. They see Samara on the couch, home from school early, and looking very tired. Samara talks to her parents about the field trip getting cancelled after the fight happened while they were setting up for the night. Samara then goes bed and sleeps.

It is morning once again. Samara heads off to school, where she meets up with Emma again, and then continues walking to school with her. When the girls arrived at the school, it was really quiet. There was no one in sight. They go looking for other students, where they find the boys (Dave, Ezekiel, Harold and Ryan), who are very scared. They claimed that Mr. Baldimore attacked Maurice with his ruler, uncalled, which scares the girls.

Mr. Baldimore finds the ten students, and gets to come into his classroom and sit down. He informs the students that he hid seven notebooks and then asks them a bunch of math questions. The students get all the questions right, except for Harold who gets the last question wrong. Mr. Baldimore loses his cool, and gets his ruler out, where he then starts chasing the students, angry at the last math question being answered incorrectly.

The students (Samara, Emma, Dave, Ash, Scarlet, Sarah, Emily, Ezekiel, Ryan and Harold) split up and start finding all of the seven notebooks that Mr. Baldimore hid across the school. They get lost in the hallways, where the smacking of Mr. Baldimore's ruler gets louder and louder. Mr. Baldimore reminds the students that he gets angrier on very question they get wrong, striking fear into the students. Scarlet and Harold are together, where they find the first notebook. Scarlet answers two of the questions correctly, but Mr. Baldimore finds her and locks her up in a room. Luckily, Harold manages to get away with the notebook, answering the last question correctly while doing so.

The students meet up in the cafeteria. Harold tells everyone about how he and Scarlet found the first notebook, and what happened to Scarlet. Sarah and Dave claim that they found the second notebook and got the questions right. The students split up again. Ezekiel looks around and finds the third notebook in the science lab, where he encounters Mr. Baldimore. They throw potions at each other, where a series of random, unexpected things from the effects from the potions happen. Ezekiel collects the third notebook and gets away.

Harold finds the fourth notebook in the teacher's lounge and grabs it. He finds the other students and shows them notebook. There are only three notebooks left at this point. Everyone goes different directions to find the three remaining notebooks. Suddenly, Mr. Baldimore catches Ash and locks her in a room with Scarlet, where the two girls awkwardly share a fart. Samara finds the fifth notebook in the music room, but however, the questions have gotten harder.

Mr. Baldimore gets faster and angrier as each question gets answered incorrectly more and more. Emma finds the sixth notebook in the janitor's closest, where Mr. Baldimore becomes faster as she answers the questions incorrectly. Mr. Baldimore catches Dave and locks him with Ash and Scarlet, where the fart still smells. Emily finds the last notebook, but it's in the gymnasium, where a dodge ball game is currently in progress. Emily gets hit by many dodgeballs, but she eventually gets the last notebook, which Mr. Baldimore senses with his "math teacher instincts".

Mr. Baldimore announces to everyone via large speaker "Congratulations, you found all seven notebooks. Now all you need to do is GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!". The school's lights suddenly turn red, and dramatic rock music plays. Everyone starts rushing to the exit, where Mr. Baldimore is now faster than a cheetah. He catches Ryan and locks him in the room with Scarlet, Ash and Dave.

Samara, Emma, Ezekiel, Sarah, Harold and Emily finally escape the school, but Mr. Baldimore is still chasing them. The six remaining students make it to Samara's house, where Samara's parents are home. The students break down the door and hide in the house. Samara explains to her parents that her math teacher, Mr. Baldimore, attacked her and her friends with a ruler and locked other students in a room together. Samara's parents are furious. They find and confront Mr. Baldimore, and start yelling at him.

The next day, Mr. Baldimore is fired from his job, permanently. He moves out of the neighborhood and never comes back. Scarlet, Ash, Dave and Ryan were set free after being forgotten and trapped in the same, smelly room for a whole day. Ezekiel unexpectedly confesses his love for Samara, with Samara admitting the same thing with Ezekiel. Both Samara and Ezekiel hug and kiss as the credits role.

Characters
(OC) = Original characters for this animation adaptation, so please do not steal.
 * Mr. "Baldi" Baldimore, a bald math teacher who gets angry when someone gets a math question wrong.

Students

 * Samara, a 15 year-old female school student who is Ezekiel's love interest. (OC)
 * Emma, a 15 year-old female school student and Samara's best friend. (OC)
 * Ezekiel, a timid 15 year-old boy. (OC)
 * Dave, an intelligent 15 year-old boy who is Ezekiel's best friend. (OC)
 * Ryan, a 17 year-old boy who is one of the cool kids in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)
 * Harold, a 15 year-old nerdy boy who is Ash's younger brother. (OC)
 * Ash, an 18 year-old woman who is Harold's older sister and a senior student in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)
 * Scarlet, a 14 year-old female cheerleader. (OC)
 * Sarah, a 16 year-old goth girl. (OC)
 * Emily, a 16 year-old girl who is best friends with Sarah. (OC)

Game-based characters

 * Principal Allan, the Principal of Baldi's Schoolhouse. (Note: He's based off the nameless principal from the original Baldi's Basics game, not an OC)
 * Maurice "The Bully", a 17 year-old boy who is the bully of Baldi's schoolhouse. (Note: He's based off "It's a Bully" from the original Baldi's Basics game, not an OC)
 * Sally "The Playtime Girl", a 12 year-old girl who just loves to play with her friends. (Note: She's based off the nameless Playtime girl from the original Baldi's Basics game, not an OC)
 * 1st Prize, a robot that just wants hugs. (Note: He's based off of "1st Prize" from the original Baldi's Basics game, not an OC)
 * Socky The "Arts and Crafts" Sock Puppet, a sock puppet that magickly came to life. (Note: He's based off the sock puppet named "Arts and Crafts" from the original Baldi's Basics game, not an OC)

Teachers, staff and others

 * Mr. Grammar, Charlie and Samantha's boss. (OC)
 * Mr. Holmes, a strict substitute teacher in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)
 * Mr. Sean, a tough, but kind cooking teacher in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)
 * Mrs. Karen, a boring history teacher in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)
 * Mr. Love, the first French music teacher in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)
 * Mr. Steam, the second French music teacher in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)
 * Mrs. Bennett, a rude art teacher in Baldi's Schoolhouse. (OC)

Parents

 * Charlie, Samara's father. (OC)
 * Samantha, Samara's mother. (OC)
 * Richard, Emma's father. (OC)
 * Georgia, Emma's mother. (OC)
 * Frank, Ezekiel's father. (OC)
 * Angelina, Ezekiel's mother. (OC)
 * Ed, Dave's father. (OC)
 * Lola, Dave's mother. (OC)
 * Seth, Ryan's father. (OC)
 * George, Harold and Ash's father. (OC)
 * Sophie, Harold and Ash's deceased mother. (OC)
 * The unnamed mothers
 * Sarah's mother (OC)
 * Ryan's mother (OC)

Teachers

 * Micah McGonigal as Baldi
 * Ed Helms as Mr. Holmes
 * Clé Bennett as Mr. Sean and Marc (Sarah's father)
 * Wanda Sykes as Mrs. Karen
 * Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo as Mr. Love
 * Thomas Bangalter as Mr. Steam
 * Novie Edwards as Mrs. Bennett

Students

 * Scarlett Johansson as Samara and Ash
 * Angelina Jolie as Emma and Sarah's unnamed mother
 * Josh Gad as Ezekiel
 * Bill Hader as Dave and some of the additional roles
 * Seth Rogen as Ryan
 * Tara Strong as Scarlet, Sarah and some of the additional roles
 * Brian Froud (Actor) as Harold (Don't get confused with Harold from "Total Drama")
 * Megan Fahlenbock as Emily

Minor Characters

 * Thomas F. Wilson as Maurice the Bully and George (Harold's father)
 * Jemaine Clement as The Allan
 * Kristen Wiig as Sally The Playtime Girl and Ryan's unnamed mother
 * MacInTalk as 1st Prize
 * Kevin Clash as Socky
 * Nat Faxon as Mr. Grammar

Parents

 * Adam Driver as Charlie (Samara's father)
 * Lake Bell as Samantha (Samara's mother)
 * Nick Nolte as Richard (Emma's father)
 * Lea DeLaria as Georgia (Emma's mother)
 * Steve Carell as Frank (Ezekiel's father)
 * Sharon Horgan as Angelina (Ezekiel's mother)
 * Maurice LaMarche as Ed (Dave's father) and some of the additional roles
 * Anna Farris as Lola (Dave's mother)
 * Dan Castellaneta as Seth (Ryan's father) and some of the additional roles

Production
On March 18th, 2022, DreamWorks Animation needed ideas for their next film. They wanted to base it off of a video game for children, since they had not done that before. When the writers were looking for inspiration, one of the employees was found playing "Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning" on his mobile phone. After seeing the game, the writers decided to make a film based off the game. The creator of the game, Micah McGonigal, came in to help direct, produce and voice act in the film. Voice actors and actresses were needed for the characters, so Micah made brand new original characters, and then got people to audition for the roles of the characters.

The actors and actresses were casted, the film's the script was written, and cast's recordings were finished. The film was given a similar animation style to the style of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie from 2017, as Micah thought it would fit perfectly with the theme of the film. The soundtrack was mostly made with Pro Tools and Logic Pro. Most of the songs are a mix of Alternative rock and beatbox. On December 10th, 2023, they had finally finished production and released the first trailer. On December 18th, 2023, a second trailer was published. On December 25th, 2023, the final trailer was published. Later on, the film came out on January 5th, 2024.

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

 * 1) Baldi's Basics Main Theme
 * 2) Let's Learn Math!
 * 3) Mr. Baldimore
 * 4) Lunch Time
 * 5) Baldi Has Gone Mad! (Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" Dub)
 * 6) Detention
 * 7) It's a Bully!
 * 8) Baldi's Basics Main Theme (Dubstep Remix)
 * 9) Home Time
 * 10) School Friends

Transcript
(Coming soon)

Gallery
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Trivia

 * The animation style of the film is very similar to the animation style of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.
 * A lot of the members of the Total Drama cast are in the film.
 * The film was originally going to be a musical, but that was changed due to timing issues.
 * The electronic music duo, Daft Punk, make a cameo in the film as the two music teachers, Mr. Love and Mr. Steam.
 * The game version of Baldi's Schoolhouse is an elementary school, but the film's version is a high school. This change was made to suit the characters' ages with their voices.
 * The film discusses two serious topics. The scene where Harold gets bullied by Maurice issues the topic of bullying, while the scene where Baldi chases the students with his ruler issues the topic of child abuse. This was to teach kids about the dangers of these topics.