![]() ![]() Puns fly through the air as fleet as Krabby Patties, a crab wearing what looks like a leather BDSM outfit leads an angry mob and a trippy Pharrell song that is soon to be stuck in your head forever scores the psychedelic jumps through time. Burroughs meets Lisa Frank.Īnd it only gets weirder once a talking, time-traveling space dolphin who shoots laser beams out of his blowhole is introduced. It's the freewheeling madness of its execution that makes the movie such a trip - as in, acid trip.Ī jaunt into SpongeBob's brain reaches awesome levels of surreality, revealing a candy-coated dreamscape populated with giant kittens and unsettling "The Shining" references. The plot is straightforward, predictable and slight, no more intricate a plot than a 15-minute episode would have. Now the town, mistaking him for a traitor in cahoots with Plankton, wants SpongeBob's head, sending the pair on a time-traveling quest to save the Krabby Patty recipe. ![]() And just like that, a newly Krabby Pattyless Bikini Bottom descends into a post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape, where all social order is lost. Still, Plankton manages to get his greedy little nubs on the secret formula, and as he tussles with SpongeBob over the scroll - poof! It disappears. It's under tight lock and key at the Krusty Krab, where SpongeBob slings the famed patties for ravenous customers. It only gets sillier from there, with Burger Beard reading aloud to his talking seagull friends the adventures of SpongeBob and his pals in Bikini Bottom, where plotting Plankton is, as usual, devising a scheme to steal Mr. This is how silly "SpongeBob" is: The film opens with Antonio Banderas, playing a pirate named Burger Beard, fist-fighting a skeleton over a storybook. It's been over a decade since the first SpongeBob movie hit theaters, but it turns out there is still plenty of nautical nonsense to fuel second feature film "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water," which is a way more entertaining flick than one would expect from a 16-year-old Nickelodeon franchise. That's a long shelf life for a children's cartoon about a burger-flipping sponge with a pet snail, but the show's font of random lunacy has yet to run dry. "SpongeBob SquarePants" has been raking in the dough for Nickelodeon since 1999. ![]()
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