zar-56702 This movie is completely awful! It's for younger kids! I absolutely love SpongeBob and to compare this with the show, it was a complete letdown! Awfully good!

Pjtaylor-96-138044 Much is made of the flick's CGI final movement in which our heroes take a step onto live-action land, but the majority of 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water (2015)' plays out in fantastic, elastic 2D animation that brings the form back to the big-screen in a big way and should not be overlooked. The feature itself isn't so much a sequel or a continuation but rather a weird and whacky head-trip featuring the characters from the show. It's a stand-alone story that takes things to crazy places with an inventive vigour and a lavish style. It manages to be entertaining even when it doesn't make all that much sense (even compared to the series' roots) and, as such, is fun throughout. 7/10

seblivesey What begins with M and rhymes with less? Thats right! Mess. Thats what this film is. a faint stink by the bin. I got the privilege to watch on the Burmese premiere and I was as stoned as a stone. it did trip me out however that doesn't make this a good film. it is clearly made by some man-child who doesn't understand life.what flipped me off is Patrick Star and how god damn incompetent he is. Also Squidmanchild is just as grouchy as a certain geek called Lee. I rate this 4 as there was some trip moments but other than that this film fried my head electric red and now I have 22 brain cells

Trevor Pacelli Nine seasons and two movies and billions of dollars in merchandising later, we still can't get this optimistic sponge out of our minds. We still love the porous protagonist's contagious laughter and the dimwitted laziness of his sea star friend. We still long for days in our youth when we could venture to Bikini Bottom in our minds to eat a Krabby Patty, catch some jellyfish, annoy Squidward, play karate with an underwater squirrel, and lounge out at Goo Lagoon. Now finally, in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, these immortal friends of ours come to life in a modern meshing of computer technology and live action, rendered in colors and textures fresh enough for you to almost reach out and touch these icons you've come to love.The result of this sequel to the first SpongeBob movie is a step up from the recent seasons. However, it's still not as good as those first three seasons. Instead of quotes that we could easily generate relatable memes from, this movie relies too heavily on bland songs and unnecessary pop culture references to duplicate the same charm that made SpongeBob and his friends famous.The plot of nautical nonsense is treated like an extra-long episode of the show, starting with a pirate's quest to retrieve a magical book that tells about this Sponge's story. First, the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket engage in a food fight with potatoes and pickles, then all the Krabby Patties disappear along with the secret formula, then Burgerbeard the Pirate, with his trusty book of storytelling, is serving these patties as "Beard Burgers" in his ship/food truck on the beach.But all the other fish blame Plankton for this thievery, treating him way more like scum than would be socially acceptable. SpongeBob decides to clear Plankton's name, and find the Krabby Patty formula, by means of time travel, before this cyberpunk post-apocalyptic black leather Bikini Bottom turns them both over as a living sacrifice to restore the patties themselves (yes, you read that right).All of the crazy psychedelic scenarios of SpongeBob's quest stems its logic entirely by the jokes, which create both the movie's greatest strength and greatest drawback. For the most part the jokes land in laughter for audiences young and old, but they at the same time halt any personal connection with anybody. Remember in the older episodes when any moments of stupidity actually developed the drama and character? (Example: Is mayonnaise an instrument?) Here, there's nothing that quite matches that.The characters also feel much less human (or would that be "aquatic?") than they used to be. Patrick gets none of the funniest moments, but instead is just a vessel for overused jokes toward ice cream and sleep. Squidward gets no real time to shine, besides being egotistical. Mr. Krabs never has a chance to express his love for money. Sandy is just crazy here, like she was (is) in the bad phase of the show.But SpongeBob and Plankton are still plenty memorable, as they get plenty of time together to sing about teamwork (or Te-AM-work as Plankton calls it). It works because unlike the short-on-heart Plankton, SpongeBob is always so optimistic with his bubble blowing and cotton candy imagination. It's now easy for me to see why he's lasted in our media as long as he has—after all, he's the only pure soul left in a real-life world gone nuts over all things trashy.It's just too bad that this can't capture the same energy it had in the years 1999-2004. I mean, all the elements are there for a needed reboot of the series: live action, special effects, a Squidasaurus Rex, but the CGI-filled parts marketed so vigorously don't actually come up until exactly an hour into the movie. Then it's just twenty wasted minutes of exploration on the surface world, which causes us to question: why should I care if they get this Krabby Patty formula back from Burgerbeard?Maybe if the story boarders spent less time making jokes about a Claymation watcher dolphin named "Bubbles" who's held his bladder for 10,000 years (no, I'm not making this up), and more time delivering what they wanted to do in this film, then the end product would not feel like a ninety-minute commercial for the television series.