The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 6, 2015

6.7	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 350 Ratings

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BrookElisonMar 8, 2015

This is the WORST movie of 2015! EVERY joke falls completely flat. (Example: "Aw, nuts! I'm out of nuts!") The characters are wooden, the animation is ugly, and the script is an abomination. Any third grader could have written a better storyThis is the WORST movie of 2015! EVERY joke falls completely flat. (Example: "Aw, nuts! I'm out of nuts!") The characters are wooden, the animation is ugly, and the script is an abomination. Any third grader could have written a better story than this. I loved The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). I love the television show. I cannot believe that The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water was made by the same people! Whose idea was it to include the seagulls??? How the hell did the seagulls get approved by the writers, the director, the producers, or the studio executives??? Watching the scenes with the seagulls was akin to torture. My I.Q. dropped several points as a result of seeing this monstrosity of a movie. I tried to sleep, but the movie was so loud and obnoxious that I could not even get in a little nap! EVERYONE involved with this piece of detritus ought to be ASHAMED of themselves for cashing their paychecks. And what the HELL was Antonio Banderas doing in this movie??? This is where his career is at? Wow. And then, at the end, they throw in some half-assed rap songs with an island twist? Since when has rap EVER been associated with SpongeBob Squarepants??? JeeeeZuuuus! NOOOOOOO!!! See this movie at your own peril! Shame on you, Steven Hillenburg, Paul Tibbitt, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, shame on you! Give me back my 92 minutes.… Expand

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ChickenCrimpyApr 6, 2015

This would be without a doubt the worst movie I have ever taken my kids to. Even they were bored and wanted to leave half way through. I dozed through it and my wife fell asleep 15 min into it. Given the calibre of movies coming out, ImThis would be without a doubt the worst movie I have ever taken my kids to. Even they were bored and wanted to leave half way through. I dozed through it and my wife fell asleep 15 min into it. Given the calibre of movies coming out, Im stunned this is even being screened. Plenty of other flicks to spend your hard earned money on. Give this one a wide berth… Expand

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wadisplaceMar 3, 2015

If you are an adult, bring the kids to watch this movie, but leave your brain at home. I went to watch it because MetaCritic gave it a 63. I left half way during tbe movie, because the "Stupid Level" reached it's peak, and I couldn't sitIf you are an adult, bring the kids to watch this movie, but leave your brain at home. I went to watch it because MetaCritic gave it a 63. I left half way during tbe movie, because the "Stupid Level" reached it's peak, and I couldn't sit there anymore.… Expand

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TakJones87Feb 7, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First of all, why in the name of satan would any critic like this movie? What are you critics on, marijuana? The story made absotivily no sense what so ever! You have a dolphin that came from a pink floyd triangle, Spongebob and Plankton made a time machine and they had the cgi for a little while and I was wanting to have that more in the movie. I have to admit the underwater animation was ok but seriously it hurt my eyes. I didn't even laugh except for the "MY LEG!" part. I didn't understand why adults liked it either and most of them hate spongebob and they were laughing at everything in the movie. Good GRIEF! OH and you people think that Strange Magic was weird. That movie was F***ing awesome. Way better than Spongeboob. Come on critics you guys make me sick. One more thing, my brother almost died of boredom. YES BOREDOM! And my grandma almost died to from the stupididty.… Expand

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ChristianHannahFeb 8, 2015

When I was a kid, I loved the episodes before the first movie, & the first movie was really good too. I still love those. But after the movie, the show started to lose its hilariousness & now the current season just makes me so mad. TheWhen I was a kid, I loved the episodes before the first movie, & the first movie was really good too. I still love those. But after the movie, the show started to lose its hilariousness & now the current season just makes me so mad. The Spongebob franchise is like Adam Sandler, its glory days were wonderful, but now I just can't stand it. So I heard this movie has the producers from the first three seasons, the only ones that ever, EVER happened, so is this movie good? Not like I wanted it to be. I saw it in 2D, but I could easilly tell when they went "Hey! Look at our cool 3D! We're hip!". It's not 2009 anymore, nobody gives a s*$&t! Plus,?most of the humor was comparable to Batman & Robin. Yes, I went there. The pirate was annoying & he had seagull buddies which were like Jar Jar Binks, & It wasn't any better than the current season of spongebob. I will admit the last third act was actually better than the first two & I thought the third act was going to be the crappiest part. Other than that, a few chuckles, Tom Kenny, Rob Paulsen, Kevin Michael Richardson, & a cameo by one of my favorite YouTubers were this film's saving grace. Since my rating can't be used for the score, I'll put my rating here & my score above. I give "Sponge Out of Water" 1.8 out of 5 stars.… Expand

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AndresitoooMar 25, 2015

To start off i like spongebob cartoon. I gave it a 3 because my 5 year old liked it and it's not a the worst movie but def. not good one. A lot of bland and dumb jokes some of them fart jokes. The seagulls were a bad idea. Love antonioTo start off i like spongebob cartoon. I gave it a 3 because my 5 year old liked it and it's not a the worst movie but def. not good one. A lot of bland and dumb jokes some of them fart jokes. The seagulls were a bad idea. Love antonio banderas but kinda corny in this one cuz of script. Really dumb story seemed written by a really young kid. Expected to see much more of the 3-d spongebob because of trailers but was maybe last 20 minutes. I was actually starting to fall asleep btw part way through. Seems like the theater crowd was forcing laughs. And most importantly just missing some of the elements that makes the cartoon loveable and the ones that were there, were bland and forced. Don't recommend it.… Expand

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DRauchDoes2015Apr 14, 2015

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is the first film in the long running franchise since 2004’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and represents a brief resurgence of relevancy for a series whose cultural significance has dwindled to aThe SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is the first film in the long running franchise since 2004’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and represents a brief resurgence of relevancy for a series whose cultural significance has dwindled to a Kindergardener’s introduction to memes.

Upon returning to Bikini Bottom, we find that the universe of SpongeBob has remained absurd and nonsensical, though it hasn’t aged quite as well fans would hope. The tone remains off-kilter, but only amateurishly so. It’s actually quite tame and ordinary, even by SpongeBob’s childish standards. There was a time when the series gave into some legitimately weird impulses, psychedelic even. Save for a sequence where SpongeBob and Plankton travel through time, meet a 3-D space dolphin and inadvertently destroy part of the solar system (a legitimate peak in oddity for the series) the gags here are by turns predictable, repetitive, juvenile, or just plain grating.

I’m not saying that I’ve never found SpongeBob entertaining, I actually consider myself a fan. But the comedy attempted here lacks bite or inspiration. From the Loony Toons slapstick to the horrendous subplot featuring Antonio Banderas as a scruffy pirate (that contains legitimate poop jokes that I just cannot abide), SpongeBob seems off his game to someone who stopped avidly watching the show after it’s heyday something like a decade ago.

And the character's archetype’s have, at this point, lost their zany dimensionality. Patrick is still an idiot, Squidward is still a drag, and SpongeBob is still as effervescent as he is annoying, but most of the inspired humor seems to have already been mined from their antics, leaving a feeling that our heroes’ actions are being filtered through an auto-pilot system, or worse, that they have nothing left to do. I’ll admit that some instances break this feeling of stagnancy, yet nothing presented here reaches the incredibles highs of The Camping Episode or Chocolate with Nuts. We’ve seen all of this before, and better.

One feat I can cite as a positive is that the animation seems to have improved markedly. Even the CGI/live-action crossover sequence at the end was visually impressive, though it wasn’t a necessarily unprecedented move, as prominent instances of the hybrid such as The Smurfs or Yogi Bear have left a scar on the entire approach altogether. On occasion, the art style ventures outside the proverbial spectrum to allow glimpses of surrealism, a welcome strangeness as we trudge through a muck of otherwise pedestrian visual cues. There is also an unavoidable nostalgic appeal I cannot deny, having watched the show a great deal when I was young. Seeing everyone back on the silver screen is a most welcome reunion to my inner child, albeit a disappointing one.

The story is run-of-the-mill; SpongeBob must once again save Bikini Bottom by retrieving the Krabby Patty secret formula. Things go pretty much as planned and everything resolves so that the series can remain cyclical and timeless, like many a children’s animated program. The character arc of series villain Plankton is rendered completely pointless, and it wouldn’t be so irritating had the central thematic focus of the film not revolved around the trope of friendship. The movie beats this cliched moral lesson over your head for an hour in an attempt at emotional resonance, yet when at the end of the film Plankton once again renounces his good ways to simply turn everything back to normal, you come to realize that however entertaining the show once was, this ending furthers the evidence that the series has completely succumbed to self-franchise-regulation, and will not now, if ever, show any progression.

Most of this shouldn’t be so detrimental to a series that openly markets itself as episodic, yet when an adult audience takes notice of fleet hints of genuine comedic potential, it seems like such a waste when artistic parameters are needlessly taken to ensure that SpongeBob will never change so as to never lose his appeal. On the contrary, I feel the opposite will become of these programs, at least in the eyes of conscious consumers of media. Shows like this will slowly fade in relevance to anyone over the age of 7 if they continue to show a lack of resolve or innovation. I believe this series still has the ingredients to churn out charmingly diverting entertainment in spite of being a cartoon marketed at tykes, we may just need a less derivative approach to get us there.… Expand

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RockKingMay 18, 2015

I was really excited to see this movie ever since i watched the first episode of spongebob(I put that wrong I mean I wanted a lot of movies) I loved it and of after the first movie I was really excited for this movie and was blown away when II was really excited to see this movie ever since i watched the first episode of spongebob(I put that wrong I mean I wanted a lot of movies) I loved it and of after the first movie I was really excited for this movie and was blown away when I saw this DRUM ROLL, its awful there were so many good ideas like a invasion of humans some actual action but this was wait for it boring,awful jokes,weird animation, and also the whole new scenery just made my brain break in one episode there was a bet if spongebob and his friends could stay out of water for 1 minute not 30 so you just broke one fact about this show, Good Job. I loved the first movie it was amazing the cartoon drawing just makes me want to watch right so good bye.… Expand

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