SpongeBob takes leave from Bikini Bottom in order to track down, with Patrick, King Neptune's stolen crown.SpongeBob takes leave from Bikini Bottom in order to track down, with Patrick, King Neptune's stolen crown.SpongeBob takes leave from Bikini Bottom in order to track down, with Patrick, King Neptune's stolen crown.
- Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations
Jeffrey Tambor
- King Neptune
- (voice)
Rodger Bumpass
- Squidward
- (voice)
- …
Carolyn Lawrence
- Sandy
- (voice)
Clancy Brown
- Mr. Krabs
- (voice)
Bill Fagerbakke
- Patrick Star
- (voice)
- …
Mr. Lawrence
- Plankton
- (voice)
- …
Jill Talley
- Karen
- (voice)
- …
Mary Jo Catlett
- Mrs. Puff
- (voice)
Scarlett Johansson
- Mindy
- (voice)
Alec Baldwin
- Dennis
- (voice)
Cole S. McKay
- Scruffy the Pirate
- (as Cole McKay)
- Directors
- Stephen Hillenburg
- Mark Osborne(live-action sequences)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIntended to be the series finale of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), the show was renewed for a fourth season due to the film's success and the show's popularity. Further episodes were told to take place before the events of this movie, but this was confirmed to be untrue by the show's cast and crew, who have claimed that the show has "never really been chronological".
- GoofsIn the opening sequence, Mr. Krabs says to Spongebob that the customer "took a bite of the burger, and... No cheese!", but when Spongebob goes in to help the customer, there isn't a bite taken from the burger. The opening sequence is a dream and things in dreams aren't always as described.
- Crazy creditsAfter the credits, the pirates are still in the movie theatre and an usher tells them that they have to leave. After the scene ends, the Paramount Pictures logo is shown.
- Alternate versionsIn the Hungarian version, much of the dialogue is rendered in rhymes and includes a lot more puns and wordplays than the original.
- SoundtracksSpongeBob SquarePants Theme
by Derek Drymon, Stephen Hillenburg, Mark Harrison & Blaise Smith
Performed by The Pirates featuring Jeremy Birchall, Dwayne Condon, Craig Copeland, Randy Crenshaw, Kevin Dorsey, Michael Geiger, Nick Jameson, Bob Joyce, Norman Large, Rick Logan & Gary Stockdale with The London Metropolitan Orchestra
Produced by Gregor Narholz
Featured review
Wild energetic silly fun
SpongeBob is devastated whenever he is passed over for the manager's job by Mr Crabs but it is not long before he has a chance to redeem himself. Fed up with never having had a costumer due to being in the shadow of Crabs, Plankton steals King Neptune's crown, framing Crabs for the crime. With Neptune ready to execute Crabs, SpongeBob and Patrick set out on the dangerous road to Shell City to recover the crown. Meanwhile, back in Bikini Bottom, Plankton's evil plan Z has taken an even more sinister turn.
I've never actually watched an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants but figured that the film was at least worth a look as it seemed imaginative and good enough to have made the transition from television to movie. Of course this in itself is no guarantee of quality, more with financial success however I had heard good things. The film opens with a rather obvious "it's a movie" live action starter that didn't inspire me that much but once we get down into the animated world of Bikini Bottom things instantly get a lot better. The world of SpongeBob is a wonderfully chaotic world that aspires to be more than just the series of off-colour jokes that I initially took the series for.
The plot is a simple adventure but it creates plenty of good side jokes and scenarios that are exaggerated to the point of being funny. It is never dull and often it is laugh-out-loud funny; and I say that as a cynical thirty-something who doesn't please particularly easily. Of course it is silly and at times is stretched to fill the running time but I still very much enjoyed it with its creative characters and strong script. Much of it is off-the-wall and will depend on the viewer's sense of humour but the fight on Hasselhoff's legs, the bald king and so on were clever little things I enjoyed. The animation is also very good - I have to wonder how well it played on a large cinema screen but on the television it worked really well. The voice work is good, matching the humour and tone of the script. Kenny is nowhere near as annoying as I thought he would be. Fagerbakke is good while Bumpass is sidelined with little to do. Brown is solid but my favourite has to be Lawrence as Plankton. Star turns from Tambor and Johansson add value but the cameo from Hasselhoff is quite brilliant and fits perfectly with the sense of humour of the overall product.
Overall then an acquired taste I'm sure but it is one that I found surprisingly fun and enjoyable. Very silly and perhaps a bit too crude and wild for very young children, this should be easy for parents to find as enjoyable as their children and, for once, mostly for the same reasons.
I've never actually watched an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants but figured that the film was at least worth a look as it seemed imaginative and good enough to have made the transition from television to movie. Of course this in itself is no guarantee of quality, more with financial success however I had heard good things. The film opens with a rather obvious "it's a movie" live action starter that didn't inspire me that much but once we get down into the animated world of Bikini Bottom things instantly get a lot better. The world of SpongeBob is a wonderfully chaotic world that aspires to be more than just the series of off-colour jokes that I initially took the series for.
The plot is a simple adventure but it creates plenty of good side jokes and scenarios that are exaggerated to the point of being funny. It is never dull and often it is laugh-out-loud funny; and I say that as a cynical thirty-something who doesn't please particularly easily. Of course it is silly and at times is stretched to fill the running time but I still very much enjoyed it with its creative characters and strong script. Much of it is off-the-wall and will depend on the viewer's sense of humour but the fight on Hasselhoff's legs, the bald king and so on were clever little things I enjoyed. The animation is also very good - I have to wonder how well it played on a large cinema screen but on the television it worked really well. The voice work is good, matching the humour and tone of the script. Kenny is nowhere near as annoying as I thought he would be. Fagerbakke is good while Bumpass is sidelined with little to do. Brown is solid but my favourite has to be Lawrence as Plankton. Star turns from Tambor and Johansson add value but the cameo from Hasselhoff is quite brilliant and fits perfectly with the sense of humour of the overall product.
Overall then an acquired taste I'm sure but it is one that I found surprisingly fun and enjoyable. Very silly and perhaps a bit too crude and wild for very young children, this should be easy for parents to find as enjoyable as their children and, for once, mostly for the same reasons.
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $85,417,988
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $32,018,216
- Nov 21, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $141,067,476
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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