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 then released onto DVD on July 13th 2024.

The film focuses on two high school students named Samara and Emma, Ezekiel, Dave, Ryan, Scarlet, Sarah, Harold and Emily. Their goal is to find the seven notebooks, run away from Baldi, escape the school and get Baldi fired.

Plot
The film starts at Samara's house, 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, she then meets up with Scarlet and Emily.

The girls go to Baldi's Schoolhouse and head to class, a group of boys named Dave, Ezekiel and Ryan, see a boy named Harold being beaten up by the school bully, Maurice. Thankfully, Ezekiel's older sister, Ash, beats up Maurice and saves Harold, the boys head into class. A teacher named Mr. Baldimore comes into the classroom and starts teaching the class math, Maurice throws a paper ball at Mr. Baldimore, calling him "Baldi", the class start doing the same thing, Mr. Baldimore has a breakdown and leaves.

The class move on to their next lesson, which is art, with Mrs. Bennett. Mrs. Bennett teaches the class to make sculptures out of clay, the class procced to make their own clay sculptures. Samara wouldn't stop thinking about what happened earlier.

The lunch bell rings, everyone rushes outside and start playing with each other. Samara notices that Mr. Baldimore went home early, the others laugh about it and continue playing until the bell rings again. It is the last lesson for the day, the class now have cooking with Mr. Sean. In a fun way, Mr. Sean teaches the class how to make cake, the class proceed to make cakes, some of them vanilla, some of them chocolate and some of them strawberry.

It is home time, everyone rushes out the door and start running home like wild animals, Samara walks with Emma and then goes home. Mr. Baldimore complains to his wife about his students making fun of his baldness, Baldi then plans a field trip for the students, to show his students that he is a "Nice guy".

Meanwhile at Samara's house, Emma comes over for dinner, Samara's mom and dad head out to a meeting with their boss, Mr. Grammar. Samara and Emma discuss about Baldi and how he might give everyone punishments for making fun of him, Samara looks out though her window to see Baldi planning something, Samara gets worried that Baldi could be planning his student's 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 then goes to school with her. The two girls head inside of Baldi's Schoolhouse and go to class, Baldi walks into the 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 the field trip starts.

1 hour later, the bus pulls up at the woods, the students get off the bus and set up tents. The field trip is going to last a whole day, Samara gets a little bit worried about it, but she got with it and meets up with the girls. The girls discuss about how gross the place is and have fun with each other for a while. Later, Harold and Maurice get into a fight, Baldi gets angry with the boys and then gets everyone to get back on the bus and head back to school.

After 3 hours of boring lessons, it was 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, looking very tired. Samara tells them about the field trip getting cancelled after a 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, she meets up with Emma again and continues walking to school. When the girls arrived, it was quiet, there was no one there in sight. They go looking for other students, they find the boys (Dave, Ezekiel, Harold and Ryan, who were very scared, they claimed that Baldi attacked Maurice with his ruler.

Baldi gets the ten students to come into his classroom and sit down, Baldi informs the students that he hid seven notebooks and then asks them a bunch of math questions. The students get all of the questions right, but Harold gets the last question wrong, Baldi gets his ruler out and starts chasing the students, angry at the students.

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

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 claimed that they found the second notebook. The students split up again. Ezekiel looks around and finds the third notebook in the science room, but he encounters Baldi. The two of them throw potions at each other, Ezekiel then collects the third notebook and gets away.

Harold finds the fourth notebook and then grabs it, he finds the other students and shows them notebook that he found. There are three notebooks left, everyone goes different ways to find the three notebooks. Suddenly, Baldi catches Ash and locks her in a room with Scarlet. Samara finds the fifth notebook, the questions get harder, Baldi gets angrier and faster as each question gets answered incorrectly. Emma finds the sixth notebook, but Baldi becomes faster, he catches Dave and locks him with Ash and Scarlet. Emily eventually 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.

Baldi tells everyone via large speaker "Congratulations, you found all seven notebooks, now all you need to do is GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!", the room's lights turn red, every light in all of the hallways also turn red. Everyone starts rushing to the exit, Baldi 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 escape, but Baldi is still chasing them. The six remaining students make it to Samara's house, where Charlie (Samara's father) and Samantha (Samara's mother) were 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, Samara's parents were furious. They confronted Baldi and started yelling at him. The next day, Baldi gets fired from his job, he moves out and never comes back, Scarlet, Ash, Dave and Ryan were set free, Ezekiel confesses his love to 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 of 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 of 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

Supporting Characters

 * Thomas F. Wilson as Maurice The Bully and George (Harold's father)
 * Aaron Robert Mckee (TheVolgun) as The Principal
 * 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 they were looking for inspiration, one of the animators was playing Baldi's Basics In Education And Learning, they then decided to make a movie about Baldi's Basics.

They got the creator of the game Micah McGonigal to help direct, produce and voice act in the film, they needed voice actors and actresses for the characters, so Micah made new characters and then got people to audition for the characters.

Once he had found his actors and actresses, wrote the script and got the cast to do their dialogue, it was time to animate the movie itself. He then asked director David Soren if he could "Have the film in the same style as The Captain Underpants Movie", as he thought that it would "Fit the theme of the film", David agreed and then the animators began animating the film.

Finally, there was the soundtrack, David Soren asked Micah about what the Baldi's Basics Original Soundtrack would sound like, Micah told him that he wanted Smash Mouth should make the soundtrack, he also mentioned that Skrillex should make some of the music as well, so they got those people into the studio and then the soundtrack was made.

On December 10th 2023, they had finally finished production and released the first trailer, on December 18th 2023, they released the second trailer and and then finally on December 25th 2023, they released the final trailer. Later, the film came out on January 5th 2024.

Soundtrack
This is the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in order of the film's runtime.
 * 1) Baldi's Basics Theme Song
 * 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 Theme Song (Dubstep Remix)
 * 9) Home Time
 * 10) Friends

Transcript
(Coming soon)

Gallery
(Coming soon)

Trivia

 * The animation style of the film is very similar to Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, another DreamWorks Animation film.
 * Originally, Bill Skarsgård was going to voice Ezekiel, but when they found Josh Gad, he didn't get the role.
 * A lot of the members of the Total Drama cast were 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 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 kids issues the topic of child abuse. This was done to teach kids about the dangers of these topics.