The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Director: Paul Tibbit, Mike Mitchell
Cast Headliners: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Mr.Lawrence, Antonio Banderas
Original Release Date: February 6th, 2015
Sometimes one must think of the tough questions, like “who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” After nearly a decade later, the resident of said aquatic fruit is back with a new film in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. Now there are no references to the first film, so in some regards this is a very loose sequel. But the nice thing about Spongebob Squarepants is its easy to jump in anytime.
Sometimes one must think of the tough questions, like “who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” After nearly a decade later, the resident of said aquatic fruit is back with a new film in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. Now there are no references to the first film, so in some regards this is a very loose sequel. But the nice thing about Spongebob Squarepants is its easy to jump in anytime.
The film starts typically enough, with Spongebob (Tom
Kenny) , Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke), Squidward (Rodger Bumpass) and Mr.Krabs
(Clancy Brown) defending the Krusty Krab restaurant against another usual sort
of attack by the villain Plankton (Mr. Lawrence). The nice surprise of the film is that it is
actually mostly in 2d unlike what the trailers would have one believe, and like
the first movie it exists (mostly) as a really long episode of the television
show with slightly better animation quality.
The main plot happens when the Krabby Patty formula goes missing,
leading to a time-travelling adventure where amusingly the rivals of Spongebob
and Plankton must work together to save their town of Bikini Bottom. The writing is just as silly as the show, and
the fact that this is a film allows things to get a bit crazier than usual.
There is a large extended cast from the show as well, including Gary the snail
and Sandy the squirrel (Carolyn Lawrence).
However, the trailers and title of the film do exist for
a reason. There’s a bizzare overarching
plot where pirate Burgerbeard (Antonio Banderas) is reading a storybook about
all of these events occurring. He does a
wonderfully hammy performance as the pirate, and the main crew of nautical
characters is forced to confront him in the “real world” once they find out
about his deeds. This end-segment, and other live action portions showing
Burgerbeard, are not quite as good as the 2d parts. The CGI visuals of
Spongebob and friends look slightly off, and it really feels like a separate movie. For better or worse this portion flies by
though.
The whole movie flies by in fact since it is just over a
hour and a half long. The story unfolds
as a series of brief jokes and weird twists, and while lacking in substance
that’s perhaps the best way it should be. One will have some laughs over its brief
runtime. For a Spongebob movie, it works again more or less. 7.6 out of 10
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