Olympia and Otis are partners at Odd Squad, an organization run by kids that uses math and gadgets to correct peculiar problems. After stopping a giant mouse from ruining the mayor's cheese festival, they visit Delivery Debbie to fix her feet, which have turned into snails. While they are working on a solution, they are interrupted by a new rival, Weird Tom, who boasts that he is a doer instead of a thinker and "fixes" Debbie's feet using a hologram gadget. Weird Tom and his organization, Weird Team, which is staffed by adults, win over the town by solving problems faster than Odd Squad and giving everyone free t-shirts, putting Odd Squad out of business and purchasing their headquarters.
Olympia and Otis discover that Weird Tom did not fix Debbie's feet and realize that he is hiding problems instead of solving them. They reunite with Ms. O and Oona and confirm their findings by reading a bar chart from an Oddometer. The agents confront Weird Tom, who reveals that he was kicked out of Odd Squad for being too impulsive and put the organization out of business to get revenge. The agents try to tell the public the truth about Weird Tom, but he creates a video framing them for causing Debbie's oddness. While watching the video, Oona notices that Weird Tom has not been managing the population size of the "Daves", creatures who multiply to form double their original number, and that they are close to escaping headquarters and destroying the Earth.
The agents break into headquarters with help from previous agents, Olive, Otto, and Oscar. Otis and Otto dance through lasers to turn off the security cameras and the others distract the adults with coffee and biscotti to get the Half-inator. However, Weird Tom stops the group before they are able to prevent the Daves from escaping.
Ms. O devises a plan to zap all of the Daves on Earth at once from space using a converted ice cream truck. Weird Tom agrees to help by reinstating former Odd Squad agents across the world. Otis, Olympia, Olive, and Otto travel to space in the ice cream truck. They are attacked by Daves en route but shake them off by playing music from the truck's speakers. They zap all of the Daves by reflecting the beam from the Half-inator off of agents in reflective suits and Oscar and Oona capture the final Dave. The agents fly off into outer space to celebrate. In a series of mid-credits scenes, Oscar shows Oona secret features of the headquarters science lab, finishing with a button that ends the movie.
Cast
Millie Davis as Ms. O, the head of Precinct 13579 of Odd Squad
Olivia Presti as Oona, the head of the science department of Precinct 13579 and Oscar's former assistant
Isaac Kragten as Otis, an agent for Precinct 13579 and Olympia's partner
Anna Cathcart as Olympia, an agent for Precinct 13579 and Otis' partner
Peyton Kennedy as Dr. O, the resident doctor of Precinct 13579
Hannah Simone as Weird Emily, a member of Weird Team and Tom's assistant
Filip Geljo as Otto, a former agent for Precinct 13579 and Olive's former partner. Geljo was a main cast member on season 1 of Odd Squad
Dalila Bela as Olive, a former agent for Precinct 13579 and Otto's former partner. Bela was a main cast member on season 1 of Odd Squad
Sean Michael Kyer as Oscar, the president of Odd Squad's science division and former head of the science department for Precinct 13579
Production
Odd Squad: The Movie was directed by J. J. Johnson, who served as an executive producer for the Odd Squad television series.[3]
Release
Odd Squad: The Movie was released theatrically in 90 theaters across Canada on July 16, 2016, as part of a partnership between TVO, Sinking Ship Entertainment and theater chain Cineplex Entertainment.[1][4][5]
Reception
Critical response
Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the film a positive review, calling it a "must-see for fans of the show."[6]
A television special sequel, titled Odd Squad: World Turned Odd, premiered on PBS Kids on January 15, 2018, with Davis, Kragten, Cathcart and Presti reprising their roles.[7]
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