Absorbent and yellow and porous is he, SpongeBob SquarePants is back for another edition on the big screen.
Family entertainment at its finest, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants has something for everyone.
Nostalgic due to its place in everyone’s childhood memory, it would be hard pressed to find someone who hadn’t heard of SpongeBob in this day and age. Everyone will know instantly when asked, “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?”
Now, its reinvention for a new audience of kids has extended its legacy from a children’s cartoon to a major motion picture franchise. This is just the latest in a string of cinematic releases from the SpongeBob franchise.
While The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is obviously targeted at its younger audience, there are a few gold nuggets in there for the adults. It’s a nice balance that will keep even the least impressed entertained for a couple of hours.
The movie features classic SpongeBob nemesis, the Flying Dutchman, voiced by cinema legend Mark Hamill. SpongeBob, in his journey to “become a man”, is persuaded to join an expedition to become a truly qualified swashbuckler, despite an ulterior motive that all the Flying Dutchman needs to break free from his curse is the help of a magical innocent soul.
In all honesty, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is a fun family outing, riddled with classic characters and hilarious one-liners. Kids, and big kids at heart, will thoroughly enjoy this trip down memory lane, even if this is the seventh film in the franchise to be released.
Despite first debuting in 1999, it’s heartwarming to see another generation enjoy the same jokes and characters that their parents once did. While arguably not the best animated film to have ever been made, it is still a lighthearted watch, full of everything the audience would want from a SpongeBob movie.
