SpongeBob Squarepants has established itself as one of the funniest
and most enjoyable cartoon properties ever.
It’s not as brilliant as The
Simpsons or Looney Tunes, but if
you get over the inherent annoyingness of the characters and the tone, you will
realize that SpongeBob Squarepants is
comedy gold – effectively using both absurdity and cleverness to be
consistently hilarious.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of the Water is exactly the quirky, fun madhouse one would expect from a SpongeBob
movie. Its oddball plot centers on the
disappearance of the secret recipe for the famous and beloved Krabby Patty; without it,
SpongeBob is unable to make more of it. When the residents of Bikini Bottom learned
that there won’t be any more Krabby Patties, the town radically descended into Mad Max-level of post-apocalyptic anarchy. As to be expected, it is up to SpongeBob and his
friends to retrieve the missing secret recipe to return Bikini Bottom to its
status quo. Consequently, the search would
even lead the gang to go to the surface.
There was actually nothing
remarkable with its narrative; nevertheless, the gags, puns, and random silliness
in the story’s flow fantastically worked.
I also liked the 3D transformation of the characters when they had to
interact with the live-action surface world.
And Antonio Banderas hamming it up as Burger-Beard the Pirate resulted
to an overall entertaining performance.
I understand that the eccentricity
of SpongeBob is not for everyone. But for those who learned to love the cartoon
as it is, this movie is a slam dunk.
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