The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004)
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Jeffrey Tambor, Scarlett Johansson, David Hasselhoff
Producer: Derek Drymon, Albie Hecht, Julia Pistor, Stephen Hillenburg, Gina Shay
DVD Info
Release:
May 20, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case - Spanish Packaging
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround - French, Spanish
- Dolby Digiatl 5.1 Surround - French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
- 2. Submarine Teaser Trailer
- Featurettes - 1. THE ABSORBING TALE BEHIND THE SPONGEBOB SQUARPANTS MOVIE
- 2. THE SPONGBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE (Animatic Feature)
- 3. SAVING THE SURF
- 4. CASE OF THE SPONGBOB
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
DVD-ROM Features:
- THQ Spongebob Squarepants Game Demo
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Reviews
There are a few laughs for adults in this film. There are a few clever cultural references. Mostly, however, I found it underwhelming.
The new feature film has some of the charm of the small-screen original, but it lacks the sustained goofiness of the series.
It's back to the drawing board for the TV show's creators, who have previously proven themselves capable of much better than this soggy and waterlogged miscalculation.
It has a freshness and energy that make a reassuring change from the typical hackneyed “family” films, both animated and live-action, that are ... foisted off on children.
...asks the audience to endure three times as much frenetic potty humor, repetitive jokes and screechy voice acting as they are used to. The result is exhausting.
SpongeBob’s resilient, Pollyana-like nature is hard to resist.
The film even manages to pull off a hilarious comic song ("Now that we're men!"), as well as providing new additions to playground vocabulary such as "Knuckleheaded McSpazatron".
Normally, when I’m watching it in my Scooby-Doo underwear eating my Cap’n Crunch cereal I don’t even think of it being a kid’s show but here I noticed it.
The writing is sharp and the characters cool, while at the film’s heart lies an innocence that resonates with us all.
Any resemblance between this big screen debacle and the sweet-and-funny Nickelodeon cable show on which it's supposedly based is entirely coincidental.
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