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The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:23
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Surreally goofy and entertaining for both children and their parents.
Theatrical Release:Nov 19, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $85,373,733
Synopsis: A passion for drawing, a penchant for the films of Jacques Cousteau, and a career as a marine biologist were SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS creator Stephen Hillenburg's inspirations for bringing this fun... [More]
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Reviews for The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Top CriticThe Nickelodeon cartoon series about an oceanic sponge and his starfish sidekick washes onto the big screen with a tide of weak one-liners, exaggerated reactions, and vaguely nauseating gags.
05/20/08
Top CriticCould SpongeBob, all gangly goodwill and ice cream appetite, be the anarchic savior for our stressed-out times?
11/23/04
Top CriticIf you are a non-parent and you're entertained by this, wow, good for you.
11/22/04
Top CriticLike the TV show it's based on, it's a daffy, enjoyable creation.
11/21/04
Top CriticAn animated adventure that's funnier than Shark Tale and more charming than The Polar Express.
11/19/04
Top CriticThere are also some wild swings into surrealism.
11/19/04
Top CriticWhat's remarkable about The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie is how much care Hillenburg and his crew of writers, animators and actors have taken to make it undeniably movielike.
11/19/04
Top CriticIt's silly, it's sweet, and it's full of all those adolescent jokes many find hard to resist.
11/19/04
Top CriticFor the most part, it's an easy and happy stretch, big on slapstick and jokes that groan rather than gross out.
11/19/04
Top CriticRetains the 2-D charm of the hugely popular Nickelodeon cartoon but adds a few tricks -- a little 3-D here, a little David Hasselhoff there.
11/19/04
Top CriticThe ratio of hit to miss leans slightly on the plus side.
11/19/04
Top CriticSpongeBob looks so slapped together and indulgently cruddy that its cheapness seems like a thumb in the eye of anyone who paid to see it.
11/19/04
Top CriticThe show, Pop-art colourful and simple in design, is delivered in 11-minute hits, two per episode. Truth be told, the full 99-minute movie does not entirely hold water; it feels like three or four good episodes connected with plot padding.
11/19/04
Top CriticThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is an inventive-enough trifle that will make both parents and kids laugh. And that's all it wants to be.
11/19/04
Top CriticCount SpongeBob SquarePants among those small-screen comic characters that can't quite make the leap to the big screen.
11/19/04
Top CriticPut me squarely in the SquarePants corner: SpongeBob is an irresistibly amusing idea that deserves credit for the name alone.
11/19/04
Top CriticThat SpongeBob -- absorbent and porous and utterly hilarious is he.
11/19/04
Top CriticIt's not The Incredibles, or one of those animated features that spent zillions on character design, pedigree and verisimilitude. But SpongeBob is a sweet, silly thing with a child-friendly esthetic all its own.
11/19/04
Top CriticThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is full of action and silliness that will delight rug rats, but it's still hip and absurd enough to entertain grown-ups, too.
11/19/04
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