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Director: Mark Osborne, Stephen Hillenburg
Actors: Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Tom Kenny
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Guest(s):
Scarlett Johansson as Mindy
Alec Baldwin as Dennis
David Hasselhoff as himself
Jim Wise as musical performer of Goofy Goober Rock
Ween as musical performer of Ocean Man
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Tim Hill
Stephen Hillenburg
Kent Osborne
Aaron Springer
Paul Tibbitt
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a film based on Nickelodeon's hit TV show SpongeBob SquarePants. In this movie, SpongeBob and Patrick set off for Shell City to retrieve King Neptune's crown in order to stop Plankton from taking over Bikini Bottom.
The movie was released in theaters in the United States on November 19, 2004, by Paramount Pictures. The movie was first aired on TV on November 10, 2006, during the Best Day Ever marathon. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain, and the Netherlands by Universal Pictures. On March 29, 2011, Paramount released the movie on Blu-ray. On December 30, 2014, Paramount re-released the movie on Blu-ray.
Characters
- The Pirates(debut)
- The Parrot
- Usher
- Concessions guys
- Other audience members
- Dream Officer Rob Johnson
- Dream Officer John Slugfish
- Dream Officer Nancy O'Malley
- Dream Paco
- Dream Dennis Rechid
- Dream Taylor Fishbowl
- Dream Susie Fishbowl
- Dream Vera Fishbowl
- Dream Thaddeus
- Dream Tina Fran
- Dream Sadie
- Dream Monroe Timmy
- Dream Medley Fishbowl
- Dream Harv
- Dream Pilar
- Dream Nat Peterson
- Dream Dale
- Dream Martin
- Dream Tom
- Dream Frankie Billy
- Dream Scooter
- Dream Dave
- Dream Harold
- Dream Evelyn
- Dream Cara
- Dream John
- Dream Charlie
- Dream Clay
- Dream Debbie Rechid
- Dream Old Man Jenkins
- Dream Billy
- Dream Sandals
- Dream Fred
- Dream Sadie
- Dream Frank (Lifeguard)
- Dream Abigail Marge
- Dream Anchovies
- Dream Martha Smith
- Dream Joe
- Dream Harold 'Bill' Reginald
- Dream Perry
- Dream Nancy
- Dream Nazz-Mimi
- Dream Frank (red shirt)
- Phil's wife(mentioned)
- Phil's children(mentioned)
- Dream Jimmy Gus
- Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy(cameo on a poster)
- Frank(looks a bit different)
- King Neptune's watch-guards (debut)
- King Neptune's guards (debut)
- Other royals
- Squire(debut)
- Mindy(debut)
- Royal crown polisher(debut)
- Goofy Goober clock(debut)
- Walter the Waiter(debut)
- Other Goofy Goober customers
- Goofy Goober organist(debut)
- Goofy Goober(debut)
- Popeye and other old cartoon characters (seen on the back wall of the Nut Bar)
- Carriage seahorses
- Clay (possibly Plankton's voice in disguise)
- Floyd and Lloyd(debut)
- Boat jacker(debut)
- Dennis(debut)
- General patrons of the Thug Tug(debut)
- Victor(debut)
- DJ(debut)
- Twins(debut)
- Larry the Lobster(cameo)
- Frogfish/Mr. Whiskers/Ice cream stand owner
- Giant Eel(debut)
- Trench Monsters(debut)
- Maximus(debut)
- Cyclops(debut)
- 'Alexander Clam Bell' (mentioned)(debut)
- Starfish
- Unnamed pufferfish(debut)
- Crabs
- Octopi
- David Hasselhoff(debut)
- Person on the floating sailboat
- Alien
- Living toys
Plot
A group of pirates get tickets to watch SpongeBob SquarePants The Movie from a treasure chest. The pirates then sing the 'SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song,' enter a movie theater, raid it, and sit down to watch the movie.
The movie properly begins with an emergency at the Krusty Krab, complete with police helicopters, large crowds, and news reporters. Suddenly, SpongeBob SquarePants, 'the manager,' arrives in a sleek, awesome sports car. Mr. Krabs says that it started with a simple order, a Krabby Patty with cheese. 'When the customer took a bite, no cheese!' Mr. Krabs starts crying, leading SpongeBob to slap him. He enters the Krusty Krab and meets a fish named Phil. SpongeBob then opens his suitcase, takes out a pair of tweezers, and dramatically puts cheese on the Krabby Patty. The day is saved, and the crowd starts cheering for SpongeBob. Their cheers soon degenerate to the sound of SpongeBob's alarm clock, and he wakes up, revealing the opening scene to be a dream.
SpongeBob is extremely excited, as today is the grand opening of the 'Krusty Krab 2,' and he is confident he will be chosen as the new manager and prepares himself for the day. Patrick Star's rock lifts up, and Patrick congratulates SpongeBob, saying that to celebrate, they are going to go to Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat after work. SpongeBob and Patrick sing the Goofy Goober theme song, and afterwards, SpongeBob goes off to the Krusty Krab. Plankton envies Mr. Krabs, and states he tried every plan in his cabinet from 'A to Y.' There are actually 26 letters of the alphabet, and Plankton does not notice it at first, but Karen, his computer wife, tells him. Plankton finds 'Plan Z' in the back of the drawer. He thinks it is his best plan yet. He goes outside, only to be stepped on by SpongeBob. He pulls Plankton off his shoe, and asks him if he is going to the 'grand opening ceremony.' Plankton replies, 'No, I am not going to the 'grand opening ceremony'! I'm busy planning to rule the world! Ha, ha, ha!' SpongeBob does not understand this, wishes Plankton luck, then runs off again, leaving Plankton to walk away saying, 'Stupid kid.' Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs is preparing the grand opening ceremony of the Krusty Krab 2, which is an exact replica of the original and is located directly next-door to it, the only difference being a giant glowing '2' on the Krusty Krab sign. SpongeBob rushes up to the stage to accept his promotion, but Mr. Krabs announces that Squidward is the new manager instead, much to SpongeBob's shock. Mr. Krabs tells a heartbroken SpongeBob that he is too immature and childish to handle the task, and SpongeBob sulks away, saying 'I'm ready .. depression.' Patrick suddenly flies by laughing, naked, with a SpongeBob banner in his bum crack, and crashes into the set, causing a fire.Later, Plankton flies towards King Neptune's castle, as part of 'Plan Z.' Inside, Neptune is attempting to punish his royal crown polisher for touching his crown, but his more intelligent daughter, Princess Mindy, stops him. The brutish and tyrannical king tries to explain to his daughter that he must enforce his power as king in order to be respected, and that she will have to do the same when she is Queen. He begins to explain the importance of his crown, and as he talks, Plankton arrives and steals it. Neptune, who is 'bald,' (but he only has hair on his side) is horrified to discover that his crown is missing, Plankton having stolen it.
Meanwhile, SpongeBob is at Goofy Goober Ice Cream Party Boat brooding over his loss. Patrick arrives thinking SpongeBob is the manager, but he was told the truth about being a kid SpongeBob starts to leave, but then Patrick gets a Triple Gooberberry Sunrise, and SpongeBob comes back. They begin to eat dozens of Surprises burying the waiter in ice cream continuously saying 'waiter.' The two become 'drunk' from all the ice cream, and SpongeBob falls asleep in the restaurant, experiencing hangover-like symptoms the morning afterwards.
Meanwhile, Neptune arrives at the Krusty Krab after receiving evidence planted by Plankton of Mr. Krabs stealing his crown, which is a note, saying, 'I stole your crown. Signed, Eugene Krabs.' Krabs denies stealing the crown, but a message then plays on the phone of a man thanking Mr. Krabs for giving him the crown and saying that he sold it to Shell City. This call is actually from Plankton. Neptune gets frustrated and plans to burn Mr. Krabs. However, before doing that, Neptune asks if anyone has anything to say to defend Mr. Krabs, and a 'drunken' SpongeBob arrives and bad-mouths Mr. Krabs for not giving him the manager job, saying, 'I've worked for Mr. Krabs for many years, and always thought he was a great boss. I now realize that he's a great big jerk! I deserved that manager job, but you didn't give it to me because you said I'm a kid! Well, I am 100 percent man, and this man has something to say to you!” He blows a long raspberry and then finishes his statement, “There! I think I made my point!' Neptune burns Mr. Krabs, but Mr. Krabs plunges into a barrel filled with water. Upon realizing the severity of the situation, SpongeBob returns to his normal self and refuses to let Neptune kill him. Neptune then prepares to fry them both, but Mindy convinces her father to give SpongeBob a chance to prove Mr. Krabs' innocence. Neptune orders SpongeBob to be back with his crown in 6 days (it was originally going to be 10 but Patrick appeared out of nowhere and argued it down to 6). SpongeBob and Patrick agree to travel to the dreaded Shell City, and return with the crown, and freezes Krabs right there until the crown is returned. Squidward panics, mostly over his paycheck not being signed. Originally SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward go on the trip, but the latter refuses and walked out of the Krusty Krab. Mindy, whom Patrick develops a crush on, gives SpongeBob and Patrick a magical bag of winds to return home with and warned about the trip.
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With 6 days to retrieve the crown (there were originally 10 until King Neptune and Patrick argued it down to 6), SpongeBob and Patrick take the 'Patty Wagon,' a car shaped like a Krabby Patty. They soon reach a gas station located on the county line, where the hillbilly owners laugh at them, finding the duo and their vehicle stupid. They tell SpongeBob and Patrick that they would not last for ten seconds over the county line. When SpongeBob and Patrick cross the line, a thug immediately steals their car. SpongeBob and Patrick then realize that they lasted for twelve seconds, and begin laughing at the hillbillies, who are dumbfounded by their idiocy, as they continue on foot. Later, they find their car parked at the 'Thug Tug,' a bar for tough, muscular fish. SpongeBob has Patrick distract the thugs so he can get the key. (Unfortunately, Patrick just said, 'I have to go to the bathroom,' making SpongeBob unsuccessful, and getting his hands dirty in the process.) SpongeBob heads for the bathroom and criticizes Patrick for this, as the latter realizes his mistake. SpongeBob then washes his hands, and when he uses the soap dispenser, it produces bubbles. SpongeBob and Patrick begin having a 'Bubble Party,' but one bubble floats over to the leader of the 'Thug Tug,' who reminds the other bar patrons of the policy that all 'Bubble Blowing Babies' will be severely beaten. The leader goes on a 'Bubble Blowing Baby Hunt' by turning on the Goofy Goober Theme song, where the first person to start singing is determined to be the culprit. SpongeBob and Patrick struggle not to start singing, then the owner notices their strain and starts singing it to SpongeBob and Patrick in a mocking tone, causing SpongeBob's eyes to water and Patrick to start melting. Just as they are about to sing, they are saved when Siamese Twins burst out in song. The other thugs begin beating them, allowing SpongeBob and Patrick to steal the key amid the confusion and depart.
By the following day, Plankton, with Mr. Krabs incapacitated, obtains the Krabby Patty secret formula and begins serving Krabby Patties at the Chum Bucket. He stole the formula by sneaking by Mr. Krabs while he was frozen, going into his office, entering the safe code, and stealing the formula. Plankton starts selling Krabby Patties at the Chum Bucket, along with free bucket helmets. He has also learned about SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to get the crown back and hires a professional mercenary named Dennis to ensure that SpongeBob and Patrick do not reach Shell City. The next day, Squidward sees that everyone is wearing helmet buckets. After a woman tells him that Plankton is giving them away free with the Krabby Patties, he goes to confront Plankton. Squidward figures out that Plankton was the one who stole King Neptune's crown to get the Krabby Patty formula. He decides to report him to King Neptune, but before he leaves the Chum Bucket, Plankton activates a mind-control device, revealing that the bucket helmets are actually mind controlling helmets. Squidward tries to escape, but the enslaved citizens corner and capture him, taking down the last opposition to Plankton in Bikini Bottom and transforms the city into 'Planktopolis.'
SpongeBob and Patrick are traveling through a field of skulls, laughing over their victory at the Thug Tug. They see an Ice Cream Stand, but when SpongeBob goes to order, the old woman running the stand is revealed as the tongue of a monstrous Frogfish using the Ice Cream Stand as bait. The Frogfish chases the scared fleeing duo, eventually driving off a cliff and getting out of the car just in time. The Frogfish is lured off the edge and subsequently is eaten by an even larger beast, which is a gigantic sea serpent that appears from the trench. Unable to pass through a monster-filled trench, SpongeBob decides to give up and accepts the fact that he and Patrick are just kids. However, Mindy arrives and shows them what has happened to Bikini Bottom while they were gone and gives them fake mustaches in the form of seaweed, convincing them that they are now men. SpongeBob and Patrick pass through the trench without fear (singing, 'Now That We're Men'), but meet up with Dennis on the other side. He rips off their fake mustaches and explains to them that they are not really men, and prepares to kill them by crushing them under his boot. However, before he can do so, a gigantic boot crushes Dennis, belonging to a monstrous scuba diver known as 'The Cyclops,' who abducts SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface.
SpongeBob and Patrick wake up in a goldfish bowl filled with freshwater and sedimentary pebbles. They see the Cyclops making 'knick-knacks' from 'dead' sea creatures, much to their horror, and are soon taken out of the bowl and put on a table under a heat lamp, and start to dry up. Soon, SpongeBob laments that they have failed and that Bikini Bottom will remain under Plankton's mind control, Mr. Krabs will be executed, and they too will die. Patrick points out a sign reading 'Shell City: Marine Gifts and Sundries.' SpongeBob realizes that they are in Shell City, which is, in fact, a gift shop. They see the crown, and SpongeBob then realizes that they did at least make it to Shell City, and did pretty well for 'a couple of goofballs.' They both shed a tear of joy and begin singing the Goofy Goober song, just as they shrivel up: their faces become smaller, Patrick's body shape gets round bevel edges, and SpongeBob's arms and legs roll up into his sleeves. As they sing the last verse of the song, their faces vanish from their bodies as they become the real-life equivalents of their species, indicating that they have both died. Back in the movie theater, all the pirates mourn the loss of SpongeBob and Patrick, but a talking parrot points out that the movie is not over yet and they continue watching it. The 'Tear of the Goofy Goobers' slides down a wire into the power outlet, causing it to short-circuit and let out smoke, which rises up and activates the fire suppression sprinkler system, causing all the sea creatures to reanimate and the table with the lamp to cool off. As the water drips from the system, SpongeBob and Patrick first get saturated colors and then they become cartoon again upon resurrection, which makes the whole audience in the theater cheer. As the sea creatures (which include a mariachi band playing a song from Mexico) beat up 'The Cyclops,' for killing them, SpongeBob and Patrick grab the crown and carry it out to the beach. There, SpongeBob reads the manual of the Bag of Winds, and Patrick accidentally releases it, leaving them stranded on the beach. However, David Hasselhoff arrives and carries them across the ocean on his back.
On the way back home as they cheered for David Hasselhoff saying nothing will stop them but during the middle of their swim, SpongeBob and Patrick see the big boot belonging to the same diver that kidnapped them and who squished Dennis, rises up sea, and an angry Dennis emerges from below it, intent on finishing the job Plankton gave him and goes after Patrick and SpongeBob with his dagger in hand (much to Hasselhoff's discomfort). He corners SpongeBob, who attempts to reason with Dennis (by bribing him with five Goober dollars); Dennis is uninterested, so SpongeBob proceeded to more offers - including a bubble-blower that sends a stream of bubbles to Dennis's eyes, blinding him and making him even angrier. However, just as he is about to stomp on them with his boot, he ends up being knocked into the ocean by a floating sailboat. As the duo arrives over Bikini Bottom, King Neptune is about to execute Mr. Krabs but is being 'stalled' by Mindy, but Neptune just thinks so. Hasselhoff opens his pectoral muscles, prepares countdown, and shoots the duo down into Bikini Bottom at fast speed, where they crash through the roof of the Krusty Krab 2, the crown deflecting the trident blast that nearly kills Mr. Krabs, and ends up burning Hasselhoff. Unfortunately, that does not stop Plankton, as he dumps a King-sized Chum Bucket Helmet on Neptune, also putting him under his control.
As Plankton's minions surround the heroes, SpongeBob realized that Plankton did not care whether Krabs should be fried or not he just wanted the power of the seas under his control, having used the theft of the crown to lure Neptune into the trap, thus SpongeBob thinks that Plankton cheated. He states to SpongeBob that it is not that he cheated, but that he is an evil genius and SpongeBob is just a kid. When he discovers that Plankton is right, SpongeBob makes a speech about being who you are and how he did things others doubted him on in his journey before transforming into a wizard and breaking out into a bizarre rock version of the Goofy Goober theme song (based on the Twisted Sister's I Wanna Rock). Seeing his moves, Plankton yells for his minions to seize SpongeBob but the latter uses his electric guitar's laser beams to destroy all the brain-control buckets with. Patrick wears fishnets and high heels and helps SpongeBob by dancing along. Plankton yells at Karen to do something, she is too lured by the rock and roll to listen.
Irritated, Plankton tries to command Neptune to stop SpongeBob but SpongeBob quickly destroys his helmet before he can finish speaking. Out of options, Plankton tries to escape but is trampled before he can do so. Then trampled into a shape similar to cookie dough, he gets arrested for the crimes of brainwashing the Bikini Bottom citizens, scapegoating Mr. Krabs, and also for stealing Neptune's crown, and the cops put him in a little cage and take him away as he yells of vengeance. Neptune reaches an understanding not only with Mr. Krabs, but also with his daughter, and thanks SpongeBob and Patrick. He then turns to leave, but Mindy reminds him about Mr. Krabs. He unfreezes Mr. Krabs, turning him into a fat little boy. Neptune then reveals that he had his trident set to 'Real Boy Ending.' He then turns Mr. Krabs into a crab again and apologizes to him for falsely accusing him, and Mr. Krabs also apologizes to SpongeBob for doubting him. Squidward suggests to SpongeBob that he has learned that he does not really need to be the manager of the Krusty Krab 2, but SpongeBob eagerly takes the position anyway. Images shown throughout the end credits shown the sole two differences between the job of manager and fry-cook is that there is a giant hat with the word manager imprinted on it and an extra cent in his paycheck. Nonetheless, SpongeBob takes on the role of manager of the Krusty Krab 2 with great pride, as the film signifies the conclusion of the franchise's story.
In a post-credits scene, the usher tells the pirates to leave the theater so she can clean up the mess they left.
Cast
Main cast
- Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants
- Clancy Brown as Eugene H. Krabs
- Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles
- Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star
- Doug Lawrence as Sheldon J. Plankton
- Jill Talley as Karen Plankton
- Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks
- Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff
- Jeffrey Tambor as King Neptune
- Scarlett Johansson as Princess Mindy
- Alec Baldwin as Dennis
- David Hasselhoff as himself
Additional cast
Production
Production art
Development
Music
( ‣ ) Associated production music |
( • ) Original music |
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [treasure chest]
•SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song - Derek Drymon, Stephen Hillenburg, Mark Harrison, Blaise Smith [pirates sing this]
‣Maui Beach - Hans Haider ['Ah, the sea.']
‣Bob Squad - Tom Rothrock [police outside the Krusty Krab]
‣Love Elegy - Mike Sunderland [Phil whimpering]
‣Bob Squad - Tom Rothrock [SpongeBob putting cheese on the Krabby Patty]
‣Crime International - Graham De Wilde ['Three cheers for the manager!']
‣Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob wakes up]
‣Hawaiian March - The Waikikis [SpongeBob getting dressed]
•Goofy Goober Song - Eban Schletter, Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Kent Osborne, Paul Tibbitt, Aaron Springer [SpongeBob and Patrick dance to this]
‣Non Stop - John Malcolm [news report about Krusty Krab 2]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['Curses! It's not fair!']
‣ ? - Plankton imagines the Krabby Patty secret formula
‣Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ['Z?!']
‣Sleazy Sax - Richard Myhill [Plankton looking at Plan Z]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['It's evil.. it's diabolical.. it's lemon-scented!'/'I'm busy planning to rule the world!']
‣Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield ['Stupid kid.']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [grand opening ceremony/Krabs describes the new manager for the Krusty Krab 2]
‣Pua Paoakalani B - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani ['But.. But why?'/SpongeBob being upset that he did not get the job]
‣Hawaiian Adventures SpongeBob Theme - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ['Hooray for SpongeBob!']
‣Steel Licks - Jeremy Wakefield ['Hello? Where'd everybody go?']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [later that evening../Prisoner is brought to the room]
‣Airs and Graces (a) - Paddy Kingsland [Neptune lectures Mindy about his crown]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Plankton stole Neptune's crown]
‣Camptown Races - Edwina Travis-Chin [at Goofy Goober's]
•Goofy Goober Song - Eban Schletter, Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Kent Osborne, Paul Tibbitt, Aaron Springer [kids sing along]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob crying]
‣Piano Presto A - Ted Atking, Alian Feanch [SpongeBob and Patrick eating ice cream]
‣Too Tired A - Hans Ehrlinger [SpongeBob drunk]
‣The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ['Now pay attention, Squidward.']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Neptune arrives/'Stay in the coach, daughter. This won't take long.'/'Nay! I'm on to you, Krabs! You have stolen the royal crown, you cannot deny.'/'Relinquish the royal crown to me at once!'/Clay's phone call/'Prepare to burn, Krabs.']
‣Too Tired A - Hans Ehrlinger [drunk SpongeBob arrives/'I deserve that manager's job!']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Krabs on fire/'you.. will..'/'I'm flattered you would do this on my account, but being manager isn't worth killing Mr. Krabs over.']
‣So Tired - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Neptune laughs]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['I have a crab to cook.'/'I'll have to fry you both!'/Mindy enters the Krusty Krab/Neptune frozens Mr. Krabs/'Come along, Mindy.'/Mindy describing the road to Shell City/SpongeBob and Patrick leave the Krusty Krab]
‣Happy Jose - Ulrich Hans Wenzel [elevator music]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [The Patty Wagon/Plankton steals the formula]
•Goofy Goober Song - Eban Schletter, Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Kent Osborne, Paul Tibbitt, Aaron Springer [SpongeBob and Patrick approach a gas station]
‣Kentucky Banjo - Guy Fletcher, Rod Williams [hillbillies laugh]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['Shell City?!']
‣Kentucky Banjo - Guy Fletcher, Rod Williams [hillbillies laugh again/SpongeBob and Patrick laugh]
‣Curtain-Raiser - Alan Braden [Krabby Patties at the Chum Bucket]
‣Emotion 2 - John Fox, Otto Sieben ['He confided in me a secret wish.']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Free bucket helmets/'Karen, baby, I haven't felt this giddy since the day you agreed to be my wife.'/Dennis introduced]
‣Drowsy Reef - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick getting tired]
‣You Better Swim - Motorhead [The Thug Tug]
‣Can Can - Jacques Offenbach, George Wilson [bubble party]
•Goofy Goober Song - Eban Schletter, Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Kent Osborne, Paul Tibbitt, Aaron Springer [baby hunt]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob and Patrick trying not to sing along]
‣Song Dedicated to the Giant Squid of the World - The Snails [double-baby]
‣John and Terry - Tim Garland [Squidward riding his bike]
‣Killer Squad - Simon Benson, Eugenio Grandi ['Chum Bucket? Free? Krabby Patty?']
‣Party Time - Keith Mansfield [at the Chum Bucket]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['It means you set up Mr. Krabs.'/Brain control devices/Customers capture Squidward/SpongeBob and Patrick driving/SpongeBob goes to get ice cream/Ice cream monster/Dennis blows a bubble]
‣Can Can - Jacques Offenbach, George Wilson [SpongeBob and Patrick's faces appear in the bubble]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob and Patrick still being chased by the ice cream monster]
‣Steel Licks - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick with dumbfounded looks]
•Gregor F. Narholz - 'On the other side of this.. deep, dark.. dangerous..'/SpongeBob says he's going home/Mindy appears/Plankton taking over Bikini Bottom
‣Renaissance Dance - David Farnon [hair in a can]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['It doesn't matter if you're kids.']
‣Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob and Patrick crying]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Dennis approaches]
‣Lonely Heart's Club A - David Bell, Otto Sieben [SpongeBob and Patrick still crying]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [mermaid magic]
‣Lonely Heart's Club A - David Bell, Otto Sieben ['Did you hear that, Patrick?']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Mindy puts seaweed on their faces/'Patrick, you have a mustache!'/SpongeBob and Patrick scream/SpongeBob and Patrick land on the ground]
•Now That We're Men - Will Schaefer, Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Kent Osborne, Paul Tibbitt, Aaron Springer [SpongeBob and Patrick sing as they go through the trench]
‣Fight! Fight! Fight! A - Will Schaefer [background music to 'Now That We're Men']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Monsters walk away]
‣Fight! Fight! Fight! A - Will Schaefer ['Well, Patrick, we should be there in one more verse.']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['Finally. I got you right where I want you.'/Dennis pulls the seaweed off SpongeBob and Patrick's faces/Dennis about to step on SpongeBob and Patrick/Cyclops kidnaps SpongeBob and Patrick/Knick-knacks/Cyclops puts google eyes on a clam and puts SpongeBob and Patrick under a lamp/SpongeBob and Patrick dehydrating/SpongeBob and Patrick see Neptune's crown at Shell City/SpongeBob and Patrick die/SpongeBob's and Patrick's teardrop rolls down into the electrical outlet]
‣Build Up - Robert Sharples [SpongeBob and Patrick brought back to life]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [they try to take the crown/Sea creatures begin to come to life]
‣Jarabe Tapatio A - Gerhart Frei, Carlos Periguez [mariachi band/Sea creatures beat up the Cyclops]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [bag of winds]
‣Stirred Not Shaken! A - Gregor F. Narholz [David Hasselhoff appears]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [March 14]
‣Stirred Not Shaken! A - Gregor F. Narholz ['Hooray for Hasselhoff!']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [Dennis returns/Neptune about to kill Mr. Krabs]
‣Say it with a Smile (a) - Dick Stephen Walter [Mindy stalling]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz [fight with Dennis/'See ya.']
‣Say it with a Smile (a) - Dick Stephen Walter [Mindy still stalling]
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['I have had enough of this nonsense!'/Hasselhoff arrives at Bikini Atoll/Hasselhoff catapults SpongeBob and Patrick into Bikini Bottom/'Hooray! We made it!'/King-size helmet]
‣Here I Go Again - David Coverdale, Bernard Marsden [SpongeBob's speech]
•Goofy Goober Rock - Dee Snider, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Stephen Hillenburg, Kent Osborne, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt [SpongeBob sings this]
‣Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody - David Lee Roth [SpongeBob scatting]
‣I'll See You in Hawaii - The Diamond Head Beachcombers ['Well, Mindy, I have to admit you were right.']
• ? - Gregor F. Narholz ['I think I know what it is.']
•Ocean Man - Ween [First credits song]
•SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy - The Flaming Lips [Second credits song]
•Just a Kid - Wilco [Third credits song]
•The Best Day Ever - Andy Paley, Tom Kenny [Fourth credits song]
Reception
As of August2014, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 7.0/10 based on 264 ratings by users. TV.com users give this episode a rating of 8.6/10 based on 23 votes.Despite the huge success of this film, the failure of Rugrats Go Wild! (2003) and Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002) prevented anymore Nickelodeon animated feature films from being made until 2010. This movie also received positive reviews in contrast to previous Nickelodeon movies such as Harriet the Spy (1996), Good Burger (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998) and Clockstoppers (2002), which received mixed to negative reviews.
Release
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- The movie is available on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie DVD, UMD, and Blu-ray release.
- It is also available on VHS, but since the VHS format was discontinued in 2006, this version is now out of print. The VHS version can still be bought used from a thrift store, or from online sites such as Amazon and eBay, although the VHS version on Amazon and eBay can get expensive as of 2018.
- It is also available on The SpongeBob Movie Collection, Blu-ray, Nickelodeon 6-Movie Collection, Really Big Box Set, and SpongeBob StarPants.
International release
- November 19, 2004 (Canada)
- December 3, 2004 (Mexico)
- December 16, 2004 (Chile)
- December 17, 2004 (Brazil)
- December 23, 2004 (Switzerland and Germany)
- December 25, 2004 (Venezuela)
- January 1, 2005 (Colombia)
- January 6, 2005 (Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand)
- January 7, 2005 (Panama)
- January 13, 2005 (Peru)
- January 28, 2005 (Spain)
- February 2, 2005 (Belgium)
- February 3, 2005 (Netherlands)
- February 9, 2005 (France)
- February 11, 2005 (UK and Ireland)
- February 16, 2005 (UAE)
- February 18, 2005 (Norway)
- March 11, 2005 (Austria)
- March 16, 2005 (Kuwait)
- March 17, 2005 (Czech Republic, Austria, and Singapore)
- March 31, 2005 (Georgia, Middle East)
- April 6, 2005 (Philippines)
- April 8, 2005 (Iceland and South Africa)
- April 14, 2005 (Israel)
- April 16, 2005 (Indonesia)
- May 13, 2005 (Turkey)
- June 10, 2005 (Denmark)
- June 26, 2005 (Sweden)
- July 8, 2005 (Finland)
- August 2, 2005 (Hungary)
- September 15, 2005 (Greece)
- September 23, 2005 (Italy)
- September 30, 2005 (South Korea)
- April 22, 2006 (Japan)
- June 20, 2013 (Albania)
Video game
Sequel
Trivia
Timeline
- March 7-March 14
- After the SpongeBob SquarePants series (excepting the future parts in 'SB-129,' 'SpongeHenge,' 'Squid on Strike,' and 'The Great Patty Caper'), SpongeBob's Truth or Square, Battle for Bikini Bottom, Behold, No Cavities!, Squidward and the Golden Clarinet, and Burn It.
- March 8, 8:00 AM: SpongeBob wakes up in the Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat.
Timecards
General
- In the Ice Cream Dreams storybook, Mr. Krabs, unlike in the movie, does not correct himself after saying 'don't you understand-ager?' to SpongeBob.
- There are more bubbles in the film than a regular SpongeBob episode. For instance, whenever the characters move or pull something, bubbles appear.
- After the movie was made, Nickelodeon released a special issue of Nickelodeon Magazine about this film. It included interviews with the cast, an article about SpongeBob's origin, Patrick recounting his journey to Shell City, and a comic about Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy trying to stop Plankton during the events of the movie.
- There are 2 online games based on this movie called Bubble Bustin' Game and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 3D Game.
- There are 5 books based on this film named The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Cine-Manga book, Are We There Yet?, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (book), Ice Cream Dreams, and Bubble Blowers, Beware!.
- There is also a video game based on this film.
- There are 5 books based on this film named The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Cine-Manga book, Are We There Yet?, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (book), Ice Cream Dreams, and Bubble Blowers, Beware!.
- Some footage from the opening scene appears in the second movie's trailer.
- Music from the 2002Disney film Treasure Planet and the 2001 Universal movie The Mummy Returns was used in one of the trailers.
- SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Plankton, and Karen are the only characters from the series who play large roles in this movie. Sandy, Mrs. Puff, Pearl, and Gary all have lines as well but do not play a large part.
- Several other characters from the series make non-speaking cameo appearances:
- Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy appear on a poster in SpongeBob's bedroom.
- Several jellyfish appear as part of SpongeBob's bedroom mobile, and one appears on a poster.
- Larry the Lobster gets a small, non-speaking cameo in the Chum Bucket as one of the customers whose bucket helmet becomes a mind control device. He is never seen afterward.
- Many of the Bikini Bottomites, such as Fred and Tom, appear in crowd shots. However, most background characters' color palettes were altered significantly for the film.
- In the book Ice Cream Dreams, it says the grand opening for the Krusty Krab 2 is March 3. However, in this movie, the grand opening is March 7.
- Additionally, the book Bubble Blowers, Beware! changes the rule of the Thug Tug into being laughed at if they blow bubbles rather than being beaten.
- While seasons 1, 2, and 3 were highly praised, the film only received slightly positive reception for critics, although the audience loved it.[citation needed]
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie novel (that was marketed during the film's marketing campaign) had contents altered from movie, as well as rewording the dialogues that were considered insensitive to young readers.
- The teaser trailer for the movie was aired during the 2004 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
- In the final fight, SpongeBob isn't seen destroying the control aerial on the Chum Bucket controlling the citizens and is only seen destroying the bucket helmets. However, when Plankton goes to jail and everyone is celebrating (even King Neptune), it would have been possible that the control aerial had been destroyed by SpongeBob's guitar.
- In this movie, SpongeBob's voice is changed to a higher pitch for unknown reasons, but it might be how older Tom Kenny is getting or the creators wanted his voice to be higher.
- This change even carried on to later episodes, up to season 8.
- Show creator Stephen Hillenburg confirmed that this movie takes place after the TV series. This actually makes sense, because in all of the episodes after the movie (including the second film), SpongeBob isn't the manager, Plankton is still at the Chum Bucket and trying to get the formula, and there is only one Krusty Krab, not two.
- This would explain the 374 consecutive Employee of the Month awards SpongeBob displays to Gary at the start of the movie.
- However, it is quite common for events to considerably change the normal state of affairs during the course of an episode, only for everything to be returned to normal by the start of the next episode, without explanation.
- This would explain the 374 consecutive Employee of the Month awards SpongeBob displays to Gary at the start of the movie.
- Patrick's quote 'Have you seen my underwear?' is later reused in the online games Dutchman's Dash & Dirty Bubble Busters.
- The song 'The Best Day Ever' heard during the end credits and in the movie's soundtrack would later be used in the episode 'Best Day Ever,' but shortened.
- The scene where SpongeBob and Patrick, after escaping from Shell City, encounter Sandy on the surface, who here has the appearance of a real-life squirrel, was planned for the film but was cut for time. The animatic for the scene is included as a deleted scene on the DVD. The scene was removed due to the fact that Patrick barfs a lot in it.
- The scene where SpongeBob and Patrick have their mouths wide open became popular on YouTube and a popular internet meme.
- The surprised Patrick face returns in 'Scavenger Pants.'
- The scene where SpongeBob says 'Whoo!' has become a very popular internet meme.
- In other countries such as the Philippines, this movie is rated G. This is because their rating systems think that toilet humor can be suitable for all.[citation needed]
- The series features a totally different King Neptune. Although in 'Krusty Towers,' Squidward mentions King Neptune XIV, possibly meaning that there are multiple King Neptune's which could explain this inconsistency.
- In a deleted scene, during SpongeBob's awakening in Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat, he asks for a 'double fudge spiny.' This rejected line was used in a storybook based on this movie released during the time called Ice Cream Dreams.
- The movie was dedicated in memory of Jule Engel (1909–2003). In September 2003, during production, Engel, Hillenburg's mentor when he studied experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, died. Hillenburg dedicated the film to him: 'He truly was the most influential artistic person in my life. I consider him my 'Art Dad'.'
- The teaser trailer uses footage from submarine films: Das Boot (1981), The Hunt for Red October (1990), and U-571 (2000).
- Elmer's Glue, a real-life glue item, makes a product placement in this movie when the Cyclops is making a shell and when a lobster shoots it at him at the Shell City Gift Shop.
- This is the second time Mrs. Puff and Sandy interact (even though this isn't an episode). The first was 'Party Pooper Pants.'
- This is the only time that Plankton actually succeeds in stealing the formula.
- Perch Perkins is seen in purple instead of blond.
- SpongeBob says that Patrick was wearing the same 'Goofy Goober' underwear for 3 years straight but at the start of the movie when Patrick is seen he isn't wearing underwear.
- This is the fourth time SpongeBob loses his arm(s). The first time was 'I was a Teenage Gary,' the second time was 'Big Pink Loser,' the third time was 'Graveyard Shift,' the fifth time is 'Sing a Song of Patrick,' and the sixth time is 'SpongeHenge.'
- This movie is a movie inside a movie because the Pirates are watching the SpongeBob movie in an actual theater.
- Plankton getting flattened by the crowd is similar to how Squidward gets trampled by the same crowd in 'Squid on Strike.' Both scenes involve Sandals stepping on them first, them looking completely flat and filled with footprints, and the crowd running towards the Krusty Krab.
- The Paramount Pictures (closing) logo appeared after the post-credit scene fades to blank. In the original theatrical release of this movie, the MPAA PG screen is shown after the logo fades to blank.
- The Goofy Goober underwear that Patrick wears appears again in 'Born to Be Wild.'
- This movie reveals that by an unspecified period of time, SpongeBob learns how to drive a stick-shift vehicle.
- During the first half of the closing credits to this movie, SpongeBob's Krusty Krab employee hat appears to be bigger than normal, and it vertically reads 'MANAGER.'
- In the movie, Plankton is more evil and depraved than he was in the series. While in the series, he was comical, and in episodes after this movie, became less evil (while Mr. Krabs has gotten more greedy and evil), but in the movie, he stole King Neptune's crown, frames Mr. Krabs for it, enslaves Bikini Bottom, shows excitement and joy when Mr. Krabs is going to be executed, and hires Dennis to kill SpongeBob and Patrick rather than merely get rid of them.
- A sequel to this movie was announced on February 28, 2012, and was released on February 6, 2015.
- SpongeBob tells Squidward that his fly is down even though he doesn't wear pants.
- When Patrick and King Neptune argue about how many days they should get for their journey, it is similar to how he and the Flying Dutchman argue about how many wishes SpongeBob and he should get in 'Shanghaied.'
- Patrick also argued to King Neptune before in 'Neptune's Spatula' on how many challenges SpongeBob will have.
- This film is mentioned in the 2012 movie, Piranha 3DD by David Hasselhoff, who guest starred in this film.
- A clip of SpongeBob in the grand opening ceremony from the movie was featured in the 2017 film, Daddy's Home 2.
- This isn't in high definition/widescreen when it was shown on Nickelodeon despite it being HD on other channels. However, when Nickelodeon HD was launched, it reran in HD.
- The movie foreshadows Goofy Goobers when a toy of the Goofy Goober Peanut is seen in SpongeBob's toy chest near the beginning.
- This movie has a unique animation style in that the characters have distorted-looking looks and bodies and color scheme (for the fish). It will be used again the second film (in Bikini Bottom).
- This movie is one of the few times where Gary speaks. He says 'Meow, Plankton.'
- The pufferfish in Shell City may be a reference to the episode 'Krusty Love,' in which Mrs. Puff's husband's horrible fate was being turned into a pufferfish lamp.
- Plankton says that Plan Z is 'evil, diabolical, and lemon-scented.' This could possibly be a reference to Every Villain is Lemons from The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.
- When The Adventures of Tintin aired on Nickelodeon on October 14, 2014, it shows the first seconds of the Paramount logo from that movie, before cutting to the normal movie, instead of Tintin.
- This movie was released in Colombia on Doug Lawrence's 36th birthday.
- This movie was released in Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina one year after the release of The Seascape Capers DVD and VHS and And the Winner Is..
- This movie was released in Peru on Charles Nelson Reilly's 74th birthday.
- This movie was released in Spain two years after the release of Tales from the Deep, Bikini Bottom Bash!, and Deep Sea Sillies.
- This movie was released in Belgium one year after They Blow Up So Fast! was released.
- This movie was released in Austria on Johnny Knoxville's 34th birthday.
- This movie was released in South Africa on Biz Markie's 41st birthday and five years after the premiere of 'Hooky' and 'Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II.'
- This movie was released in Indonesia on Billy West's 55th birthday.
- This movie was released in Greece on Amy Poehler's 34th birthday and two years after the Krusty Krab Adventures book was released.
- This movie was released in South Korea two years after the release of Christmas DVD and VHS and Nicktoons Christmas.
- King Neptune was using a paper bag as a crown while he was waiting for his real crown to be delivered to him.
- This film was originally intended to be the series finale, but since Nickelodeon wanted more episodes, the show continued.
- This film was released in between the episodes 'Pranks a Lot' and 'Fear of a Krabby Patty.'
- This is the first SBSP production to be presented in widescreen.
- In the Russian version, Plankton's line 'Karen?', when he sees Karen in a crowd of people wasn't dubbed (Plankton just moves his mouth without saying any word).
- 'Rock!', 'No!', and 'Thanks!' also wasn't dubbed in Russian dub.
- In the Latin Spanish dub, they had the same Spanish dubbing actors from the other characters.
- This movie was the first non-Rugrats movie to have a sequel from Nickelodeon Movies.
- Originally, the ending to the film featured 'Mourning Glory' by Ween playing over the credits. When it tested poorly, it was ultimately swapped out for the more popular 'Ocean Man'.
Cultural references
- The movie contains references to the epic Greek poem 'The Odyssey' by Homer, specifically the Bag Of Winds and 'The Cyclops' (undersea diver).
- The song 'Goofy Goober Rock' is a parody of the song 'I Wanna Rock' by Twisted Sister.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick are in the Nut Bar a picture of Popeye, a panel from his comic strip series, and a panel from the comic strip Krazy Kat can be seen framed on the wall behind them.
- When Cyclops is making a knick-knack out of a clam, he names it 'Alexander Clam Bell' which is a parody of Alexander Graham Bell with a telephone replica attached. Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone.
- The Cyclops is somewhat similar to Sid Phillips from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story.
- After SpongeBob hops from David's right leg to his left Dennis says: 'You got guts kid!' This could a reference to an old Nickelodeon game show called: 'Nickelodeon Guts,' in which three competitors would go through a series of obstacle courses, and in the end, the host would say, 'These kids got guts!'[citation needed]
- When SpongeBob and Patrick burp after eating the ice cream, it sounds exactly like the burp of Barney Gumble from FOX's animated TV series The Simpsons.
- In one scene, SpongeBob mistakenly believes he is hired as the new manager of the Krusty Krab 2, while in reality, it was Squidward who was hired as manager. This might be a reference to a scene from the beginning of the 2001 Paramount Picture movie Zoolander, where the main character Derek is under the belief he will win an award, although another character named Hansel receives the reward instead.
- King Neptune, who made his first appearance in 'Neptune's Spatula,' and his daughter, Mindy, who made her debut appearance in this movie, might be a spoof of King Triton and Ariel from The Little Mermaid.
- The Patty Wagon is a reference to the Burger car from another Paramount and Nickelodeon Movie Good Burger.
- King Neptune trident being accidentally set to 'Real Boy Ending' is a reference to Disney's Pinocchio.
- The Ice Cream Lady's cat 'Mr. Whiskers' has the same name as the rabbit 'Mr. Whiskers' from Disney Channel's cartoon series Brandy and Mr. Whiskers.
- In one scene, there are 2 fishes headbanging to Goofy Goober Rock. They might be a reference to the characters from the 1993 MTV series Beavis and Butt-head because the 2 fishes have the same color scheme as them and the same hair color as them.
Errors
- Mr. Krabs says near the end of the movie 'I'm going to do something that I should have done 6 days ago.' He means 7 because it was the day after when SpongeBob got the 6-day challenge to get the crown.
- SpongeBob had his shoes on while he put his pants on, but in the scene before that, he was only wearing his socks.
- The size of the crown changes through most of the movie. When Plankton is carrying it, he is as big as the tip. When SpongeBob attempts to lift it, it looks gigantic compared to him.
- When there's a close-up of the Patty Mobile's pickle-like wheels, they are bumpy. However, in the next scene, they are regular wheels instead.
- When SpongeBob smears Plankton on the ground, Plankton's smear appears, but after SpongeBob picks up Plankton, the green smear disappears.
- When Mindy talks to King Neptune, she has her golden band, however, the next scene her golden band disappears.
- During the scene where SpongeBob and Patrick are eating lots of the Triple Gooberberry Sunrises, there are the glass bowls the ice cream came in lying around the bench, but no spoons. The spoons have miraculously disappeared.
- While King Neptune was screaming, the rest of his hair turns into 3 strings of hair.
- When Mr. Krabs is frozen, his position in the restaurant changes through most of the movie.
- Even from the distance Mindy was, she should have seen Patrick's underwear.
- After Patrick tells SpongeBob to be careful while he is fighting Dennis while on Hasselhoff, Dennis's color scheme goes paler for one scene but changes back after SpongeBob looks down.
- When Plankton was looking through his binoculars, there were two eyes, with two pupils. This would not be possible, as Plankton has only one eye.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick were eating their Triple Gooberberry Sunrises, pink strawberry (presumably) ice cream was splattered on the waiter, however, there was no pink ice cream visible on the sundae.
- There was also a few strawberries that got on the waiter, but there was again no strawberries visible on the ice cream.
- When Mr. Krabs is being interviewed his pants are purple and don't change to blue until the end of the movie.
- When King Neptune is fed up with being stalled from the execution, he tells Mindy to go wait outside, then places a lock on the door. After SpongeBob and Patrick arrive, the lock disappears.
- When King Neptune first enters the Krusty Krab, the clock above the doors is absent.
- The film takes place after every episode of the series. However, Plankton states that he never had one customer. In later episodes he actually has customers. It's possible that Plankton may have forgotten about it.
- After the end credits where the pirates are still in the movie theater and the usher coming in to tell them it's time to go, there's less popcorn on the floor, but as the pirates are leaving and her continuing her sweeping job, there's massively more popcorn all over the floor.
Running gags
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- Patrick asking if they are dead yet.
- SpongeBob being called a 'kid.'
- Plankton looking at his arms when someone says his arms are stubby.
Videos
Clips
Posters
References
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | |
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Directed by | Stephen Hillenburg[1] |
Produced by |
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Written by |
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Story by | Stephen Hillenburg |
Based on | SpongeBob SquarePants by Stephen Hillenburg |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Tom Kenny |
Music by | Gregor Narholz |
Cinematography | Jerzy Zieliński |
Edited by | Lynn Hobson |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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87 minutes[2] | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $30 million[3] |
Box office | $140.2 million[3] |
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American live-action/animatedcomedy film based on the Nickelodeonanimated television seriesSpongeBob SquarePants. The film was co-written, directed, and produced by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, with live-action sequences directed by Mark Osborne, and features the series' cast of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass and Mr. Lawrence. The film also has new actors which include Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor, Alec Baldwin and David Hasselhoff (as himself), and is the first film in the SpongeBob SquarePants film series. In this film, Plankton devises a plan to discredit his business nemesis Mr. Krabs, steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over the world by stealing King Neptune's crown and framing Mr. Krabs for the crime. SpongeBob and Patrick team up to retrieve the crown from Shell City to save Mr. Krabs from Neptune's wrath and the oceanic world from Plankton's rule.
Previous offers by Paramount Pictures for a film adaptation of SpongeBob SquarePants had been rejected by Stephen Hillenburg, but he eventually accepted one offer in 2002. A writing team consisting of Hillenburg, Paul Tibbitt, Derek Drymon, Aaron Springer, Kent Osborne and Tim Hill was assembled, conceiving the idea of a mythical hero's quest and the search for a stolen crown, which would bring SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface. The film was originally intended as the series finale, but Nickelodeon ordered more episodes of the series as it had become increasingly profitable, so Hillenburg resigned as showrunner with Tibbitt taking his place.
The film was widely promoted by Paramount and Nickelodeon, with tie-in promotions made by 7-Eleven, the Cayman Islands and Burger King, which decorated various of its franchises with 9-foot (2.7 m) SpongeBob inflatable figures. The film was released on November 19, 2004, grossing $140 million worldwide,[3] and received generally positive reviews from critics. A sequel titled The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water was released in 2015, and a prequel titled The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge is scheduled for release in 2020.
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Plot[edit]
A group of pirates find tickets to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in a treasure chest and enter a theater to watch the film after raiding the concession stand.
SpongeBob SquarePants cheerfully prepares for the opening ceremony for the Krusty Krab 2, expecting his boss Mr. Krabs to promote him to manager of the new restaurant. Instead, Mr. Krabs names Squidward Tentacles as manager, thinking SpongeBob is too immature to handle the role, much to SpongeBob's disappointment. Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs' business rival, Plankton, complains about his failures to his computer wife Karen, being unable to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula. When Karen points out plan 'Z', a scheme which he has yet to attempt, Plankton decides to implement it.
That night, SpongeBob drowns his sorrows in ice cream with his best friend Patrick Star (The Goofy Goober Song). Elsewhere, Plankton steals King Neptune's crown, leaving false evidence to frame Mr. Krabs for the crime, and sends the crown to the distant land of Shell City. The next morning, Neptune barges into the Krusty Krab 2 and threatens Mr. Krabs for his alleged thievery. SpongeBob arrives and chastises Mr. Krabs under the influence of an ice cream headache, but seeing his boss's life at risk shocks SpongeBob back to his senses and he promises Neptune that he will retrieve the crown from Shell City. Neptune is convinced by his daughter Mindy to spare Mr. Krabs for the time being and freezes him instead, ordering SpongeBob to return with the crown in six days. Soon after SpongeBob and Patrick leave for Shell City, Plankton steals the Krabby Patty formula and uses it to produce and sell Krabby Patties at his restaurant, the Chum Bucket. He also gives away free 'Chum Bucket Helmets' to customers, which are actually mind-control devices that Plankton activates to control Bikini Bottom's residents and take over the city.
As their journey continues, SpongeBob and Patrick reach a dangerous, monster-filled trench. Coming to the conclusion that they cannot complete their quest due to their immaturity, they tearfully give up. Mindy arrives at the trench and tells SpongeBob and Patrick of Plankton's plan. She pretends to magically turn them into men by giving them seaweed mustaches. With their confidence boosted, they brave the trench ('Now That We're Men') but are confronted by Dennis, a hitman hired by Plankton to eliminate them. Dennis is stepped on by a hardhat diver that SpongeBob and Patrick believe to be a Cyclops. The Cyclops grabs SpongeBob and Patrick, and takes them to his beachside store, revealed to be Shell City.
In the store, SpongeBob and Patrick find the crown, but are dehydrated by the Cyclops' heat lamp and die. Their tears short-circuit the lamp's power cord, and its smoke activates the sprinkler system, reviving them and the other dried sea creatures intended to be sold as souvenirs. As the vengeful sea creatures attack and overwhelm the Cyclops, SpongeBob and Patrick take the crown and head for the beach, where David Hasselhoff appears and offers them a ride. He swims from the beach to Bikini Bottom carrying them on his back. Dennis catches up to them but is knocked by a catamaran back into the sea.
At the Krusty Krab 2, King Neptune arrives to execute Mr. Krabs, but SpongeBob and Patrick return with the crown just before he is able to do so. They confront Plankton, who drops a mind-control bucket on Neptune, enslaving him. Before Plankton can direct Neptune to kill them, SpongeBob accepts his childlike nature and bursts into song ('Goofy Goober Rock'), transforming into an electric guitar-wielding wizard. He shoots lasers from his guitar, destroying the mind-controlling helmets and freeing Neptune and Bikini Bottom's residents from Plankton's rule. Plankton tries to escape, but is stepped on and crushed by other citizens. Plankton is arrested and Neptune thanks SpongeBob for his bravery. Neptune thaws out Mr. Krabs, who makes SpongeBob manager of the Krusty Krab 2 in gratitude. SpongeBob joyfully exclaims that this is the greatest day of his life as he leaps into the air.
In a post-credits scene, the pirates which have been watching the film are told by an usher to leave the theater, which they begrudgingly do.
Cast[edit]
- Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants
- Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star
- Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs
- Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Lawrence as Plankton
- Jeffrey Tambor as King Neptune
- Scarlett Johansson as Princess Mindy
- Alec Baldwin as Dennis
- David Hasselhoff as himself
- Jill Talley as Karen
- Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks
- Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff
- Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs
- Dee Bradley Baker as Perch Perkins
- Carlos Alazraqui as King Neptune's squire
- Aaron Hendry as the Cyclops
- Neil Ross (voice)
- Stephen Hillenburg as the voice of the Parrot
- Kristopher Logan as Squinty the Pirate
- D.P. FitzGerald as Bonesy the Pirate
- Cole McKay as Scruffy the Pirate
- Dylan Haggerty as Stitches the Pirate
- Bart McCarthy as Captain Bart the Pirate
- Henry Kingi as Inky the Pirate
- Michael Patrick Bell as Fisherman
- Mageina Tovah as Usher
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was long-planned;[4]Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures had approached series creator Stephen Hillenburg for a film based on the show, but he refused for more than a year.[5] Hillenburg was concerned, after watching The Iron Giant and Toy Story with his son, about the challenge of SpongeBob and Patrick doing something more cinematically-consequential and inspiring without losing what he calls the SpongeBob 'cadence'.[5] He said, on a break from season-four post-production, 'To do a 75-minute movie about SpongeBob wanting to make some jellyfish jelly would be a mistake, I think [..] This had to be SpongeBob in a great adventure. That's where the comedy's coming from, having these two naïve characters, SpongeBob and Patrick, a doofus and an idiot, on this incredibly dangerous heroic odyssey with all the odds against them.'[5]
I never wanted to do a movie because I didn't think that what we wanted to say needed to be in a movie. I like the short form for animation. Then this story idea came up that lent itself to a longer format. You can't do a road trip adventure in a short form. |
— Stephen Hillenburg[6] |
In 2002, Hillenburg and the show's staff stopped making episodes to work on the film after the show's third season.[6] The film's plot originally had SpongeBob rescue Patrick from a fisherman in Florida;[6] an obvious reference to the 2003 film, Finding Nemo, this was later said by Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob) to be a 'joke' plot to keep fans busy.[6] Hillenburg wrote the film with five other writer-animators from the show (Paul Tibbitt, Derek Drymon, Aaron Springer, Kent Osborne and Tim Hill) over a three-month period in a room of a former Glendale, California bank.[5] Osborne said, 'It was hugely fun [..] although it did get kind of gamy in there.'[5] At the beginning of the series, Hillenburg screened a number of silent shorts (from Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton) and work by two modern comic actors: Jerry Lewis and Pee-wee Herman, both obvious inspirations for SpongeBob.[7] For the film, the writers created a mythical hero's quest: the search for a stolen crown, which brings SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface.[7]Bill Fagerbakke (the voice of Patrick) said about the plot, 'It's just nuts. I'm continually dazzled and delighted with what these guys came up with.'[8]
When the film was completed, Hillenburg wanted to end the series 'so [it] wouldn't jump the shark'. However, Nickelodeon desired more episodes;[9] Hillenburg stated: 'Well, there was concern when we did the movie [in 2004] that the show had peaked. There were concerns among executives at Nickelodeon.'[10][11] As a result, Hillenburg resigned as the series' showrunner,[12] appointing writer, director, and storyboard artistPaul Tibbitt to succeed him.[13] Tibbitt was one of Hillenburg's favorite crew members:[14] '[I] totally trusted him.'[15] Tibbitt would remain showrunner until he was succeeded in 2015 by the show's creative director Vincent Waller and staff writer Marc Ceccarelli. He has also acted as an executive producer since 2008.[13][16] Hillenburg no longer wrote or ran the show on a day-to-day basis, but reviewed each episode and submitted suggestions: 'I figure when I'm pretty old I can still paint [..] I don't know about running shows.'[12][17]Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke and the crew confirmed that they had completed four episodes for broadcast on Nickelodeon in early 2005,[18][19] and planned to finish a total of about 20 for the fourth season.[18][19] In 2015, Hillenburg returned to the show following the completion of the second movie as an executive producer, now having greater creative input and attending crew meetings.[20][21]
In September 2003, Jules Engel, Hillenburg's mentor when he studied experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, died.[22] Hillenburg dedicated the film to him: 'He truly was the most influential artistic person in my life. I consider him my 'Art Dad.'[23][24][25]
Casting[edit]
The film stars the series' main cast members: Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gary the Snail and the French Narrator, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, Jill Talley as Karen, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, and Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs. It also features Dee Bradley Baker as Perch Perkins, Carlos Alazraqui as King Neptune's squire, Aaron Hendry as the Cyclops, and Neil Ross as the voice of the Cyclops. In addition to the series' cast, it was reported on March 23, 2004 that Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor and Alec Baldwin would play new characters Princess Mindy, King Neptune and Dennis, respectively, and David Hasselhoff would appear as himself.[26][27]
Johansson accepted the role because she likes cartoons and was a fan of The Ren & Stimpy Show.[28] When Jeffrey Tambor signed for his voice cameo, he saw his character (King Neptune) and joked, 'This is me.'[28] He remembered the first cartoon he saw, Bambi: 'My first cartoon, I had to be carried out crying [..] It was Bambi. It's like the great American wound: the death of Bambi's mother. 'Run, Bambi, run!'[29] Another guest voice was Alec Baldwin;[27] Stephen Hillenburg said that the actor recorded his character Dennis on a 'phone':[28] 'I wouldn't say that about his performance. He might be mad if we said that. Technically, it was like he was in another booth in the studio.'[28]
Baywatch and Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff accepted the role when his daughters, Taylor-Ann and Hayley, urged him:[30] 'I got an offer to do a cameo in the SpongeBob Movie and I turned to my girls, who were like 16 and 14, and I said, 'Who's SpongeBob?' and they said, 'Oh my God, Dad, it's the number one cartoon in the world, you gotta do it.'[30] Hasselhoff enjoyed his cameo: 'It was great fun and to this day around the world kids stop me and say, 'Are you David Hasselhoff?' because I was the only human in the picture.'[30] Hasselhoff said that the film gained him new fans: 'It's amazing - so many of the kids were so young and didn't see Baywatch and Knight Rider so I got a whole new legion of fans.'[30]
Animation[edit]
There were a number of stages involved in the making of the film, beginning with a rough animation process of ideas drawn on Post-it notes.[31] The writers drew, working from rough outlines rather than scripts (which made the humor more visual than verbal).[7] Hillenburg said, 'It's in the characters' extreme body language, in how they slither capriciously around the deadpan frames.'[7] The storyboard artists, including Sherm Cohen, then illustrated ideas conceived by the writers.[8] In the series Tom Yasumi and Andrew Overtoom do the animatics, but director Hillenburg and writer Derek Drymon did the animatics for the film.[32] Yasumi and Overtoom were the film's animation-timing directors, concentrating on the sheets.[32]The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was animated at Rough Draft Studios in South Korea.[4] The animators worked semi-digitally; pencil-drawn poses would be composited into layouts in Photoshop.[33]
Series writer and storyboard artist Erik Wiese left the show for a year to work on Samurai Jack and Danny Phantom, but returned to do storyboards and character layout for the film.[9] He 'always wanted to be a feature animator, and the movie felt like I was on the character animation end', describing the experience as 'a blast—it felt like coming home.'[9]
Hillenburg enjoyed the process of making the film:[6] 'The TV schedule is tight, and you don't always have a lot of time to work on your drawings.'[6] He appreciated the film's hand-drawn animation: 'I think the movie's drawings are much superior than the TV show', although CGI animation was flourishing at the time of the film's release.[6] 'There's a lot of talk about 2-D being dead, and I hope people don't think that. Even Brad Bird is a proponent of 2-D. He would agree with me that it's all about what you're trying to say. There are many ways to tell a story, and what's unique about animation is that there are many styles with which to tell a story.'[6] The clay animation scenes were shot by Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh and Chris Finnegan at Screen Novelties in Los Angeles.[25]
Filming[edit]
The film features live-action scenes directed by Mark Osborne in Santa Monica, California.[8][34] The ship used during the 30-second opening featuring the pirates singing the theme song was the Bounty,[35][36] a 180-foot (55 m)-long, enlarged reconstruction of the 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty built for 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty. The ship appeared in a number of other films, including Treasure Island (1999), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).[37][38] In film trailers, live-action scenes were taken from Das Boot (1981), The Hunt for Red October (1990) and U-571 (2000).[6]
Baywatch and Knight Rider actor David Hasselhoff made a cameo in the live-action scenes, offering SpongeBob and Patrick a ride to Bikini Bottom.[39] The scene was originally written before consulting Hasselhoff.[18][19] Hillenburg was pleased with the storyboards;[9] Lead storyboard artist Sherm Cohen said, 'He had been wrestling with the ending for quite a while, and finally he was ready to pitch his ideas to some of the other board artists.'[9] Hillenburg was counting on casting Hasselhoff, and the first question he asked him was 'So, do we have Hasselhoff?'[9] He replied 'No', with a grin.[9] Hasselhoff eventually agreed, before seeing the script.[18][19] Hillenburg said about the actor, 'He's a great guy [..] He was great at making fun of himself.'[18][19]
The crew built a 750-pound (340 kg), 12-foot (3.7 m) replica of Hasselhoff.[34][39][40] The $100,000 replica was kept at Hasselhoff's home;[41] he has said, 'It freaked me out because it was so lifelike, with teeth, when you touch it [it] feels like real skin. It's soft, like your skin.'[41] At the completion of filming, Hasselhoff said, 'That's ridiculously awesome. What are you gonna do with it?'[41] Asked by the crew if he wanted to keep it, he answered, 'Uh, yeah. Okay.'[41] Hasselhoff filmed in cold water, where he was pulled by a sled nine yards across the sea;[8][39] he described the experience as 'cold but [a] lot of fun.'[31]
In late March 2014, Hasselhoff offered the replica up for auction with other memorabilia collected during his career. Julien's Auctions handled the item's sale, which were expected to bring in between $20,000 and $30,000. Ultimately, Hasselhoff pulled the item, just a few days before the auction.[42][43][44]
Deleted scenes[edit]
The DVD and Blu-ray releases include animatics of deleted scenes from the film, including SpongeBob and Patrick's meeting with Sandy Cheeks (a squirrel) on the surface after their escape from Shell City.[45] Patrick repeatedly vomits, upset by Sandy's unusual appearance.[45] The squirrel is pursued by black-suited exterminators,[45] and defends herself with acorns.[45] She informs SpongeBob and Patrick that they can return to Bikini Bottom by taking a bus at the beach.[45] This idea was later used for the second film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, where Sandy became a giant realistic squirrel.
When SpongeBob awakens with a hangover on the Goofy Goober party boat, he asks a waiter for a 'Double-Fudge Spinny';[45] the rejected line was used in a tie-in book, Ice-Cream Dreams, which was based on the film.[45] In 2013 the film's lead storyboard artist, Sherm Cohen, released a storyboard panel of a deleted scene from the film with SpongeBob awakening from his dream saying 'WEEEEE!' and Mr. Krabs holding a manager's hat.[46][47]
Soundtrack[edit]
Gregor Narholz composed the score for the film,[48][49][50] conducting the recording sessions (in 5.1 surround sound) with the London Metropolitan Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London.[51][52] Narholz was signed when series music editor Nick Carr recommended him to Hillenburg after they worked together at the Associated Production Music library.[9] Narholz was honored at the 2005 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for his work on the film,[53] and received a nomination for Music in an Animated Feature Production at the 32nd Annie Awards.[54][55]
American rock band The Flaming Lips recorded 'SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy'.[56][57] They shot the song's music video, directed by band member Wayne Coyne and filmmaker Bradley Beesley, in Austin, Texas.[56] Coyne said, 'Stephen [Hillenburg] seems to be a fan of the weirder music of the late '80s and early '90s [..] He wanted to evoke the music he got turned onto back then.'[56] Coyne suggested a duet with Justin Timberlake, but Hillenburg refused,[58] saying 'I don't want any of those sort of commercial weirdos on there. I don't like those commercial people. I like you guys, and Wilco and Ween.'[58] American band Wilco wrote and recorded 'Just a Kid'.[57][59] One of the film's producers contacted frontman Jeff Tweedy after seeing a SpongeBob air freshener hanging from Tweedy's rearview mirror in I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.[59] Tweedy said, 'I fell in love with SpongeBob when I heard him describe the darkness at the bottom of the sea as 'advanced darkness' [..] How could I not write a song for this film? It automatically makes me the coolest dad on the block.'[59]Avril Lavigne recorded the series' theme for the soundtrack.[60][61][62] Other artists contributing to the soundtrack were Motörhead, singing 'You Better Swim' (a derivative of their 1992 song 'You'd Better Run');[63][64][65]Prince Paul ('Prince Paul's Bubble Party');[63]Ween ('Ocean Man'),[63] and the Shins ('They'll Soon Discover', partially written in 2001).[66]
'The Best Day Ever', written by Tom Kenny (SpongeBob's voice actor) and Andy Paley, was featured in the film and on its soundtrack. Kenny and Paley were working on what would become the album The Best Day Ever, writing 'The Best Day Ever' and 'Under My Rock'.[67] The film's production team needed two more tracks for the soundtrack;[67] Hillenburg heard the songs, and decided to include them.[67] 'The Best Day Ever' ended up being played during the film's closing credits.[67]
Release[edit]
The film's trailer was released on May 19, 2004, and was attached to Shrek 2.[68]The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie opened in theaters on November 19, 2004;[69] its yellow-carpet world premiere was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on November 14, 2004.[70][71][72] Among celebrities who saw the premiere with their children were Ray Romano, Larry King, Ice Cube, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's Gary Dourdan and Friends'Lisa Kudrow.[73] The carpet was a reminder of home for Tom Kenny, SpongeBob's voice actor; he said, 'I have a 15-month-old daughter, so I'm no stranger to yellow carpets.'[73]
Marketing[edit]
Julia Pistor, the film's co-producer, said that although Nickelodeon (which owns the SpongeBob trademark) wanted to sell character-themed backpacks, lunch boxes and wristwatches it respected Hillenburg's integrity and gave him control of merchandising.[7] Hillenburg had no problem with candy and ice cream tie-ins, Pistor said (because of the treats' simplicity),[7] but he had issues with fast food tie-ins; according to him, the latter was 'full of hidden additives.'[7] Pistor said, 'The trouble is that you can't go out with animated films without a fast-food tie-in [..] People don't take you seriously.'[7] Hillenburg replied, 'Yeah, well, my take on that is that we shouldn't do that [..] We didn't want to suddenly become the people serving up food that's not that good for you - especially kids. We work with Burger King, and they make toys and watches. But to actually take the step of pushing the food, that's crossing the line. I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.'[7]
The film was promoted across the United States. Nickelodeon joined Burger King for a 12-figure toy line based on the film, and about 4,700 Burger King stores perched 9-foot (2.7 m), inflatable SpongeBob figures on their roofs as part of the promotion (one of the largest in fast-food history).[74] Customers could also purchase one of five different SpongeBob-themed watches for $1.99 with the purchase of a value meal.[74]
On November 11, 2004, it was reported that a number of the inflatables had been stolen from Burger King roofs nationwide.[74][75] Burger King chief marketing officer Russ Klein said, 'As to the motives behind these apparent 'spongenappings', we can only speculate.[74][76] We did receive one ransom note related to an inflatable SpongeBob disappearance in Minnesota.'[74][76] The chain offered a year's supply of Whopper sandwiches as a reward for information leading to the return of inflatables stolen in November.[74][76][77][78] One was found attached to a railing at the football-field 50-yard line at an Iowa college,[79] and another under a bed in Virginia.[79] A ransom note was found for a third: 'We have SpongeBob. Give us 10 Krabby Patties, fries, and milkshakes.'[79] Steven Simon and Conrad (C.J.) Mercure Jr. were arrested after stealing an inflatable from a Burger King in St. Mary's County, Maryland.[80][81] While facing up to 18 months in jail and a $500 fine, Simon and Mercure said they were proud of what they did;[81][82] Simon said, 'Once we got caught by the police, we were like, now we can tell everybody.'[81][82] The following year Burger King took 'extra security precautions', when Stormtroopers from George Lucas' Star Wars guarded the delivery of Star Wars toys to a Burger King in North Hollywood.[83]
The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea, joined with Nickelodeon to create the first Cayman Islands Sea School with SpongeBob for the film.[84] The partnership was announced by Pilar Bush, Deputy Director of Tourism for Cayman Islands, on March 10, 2004.[84] As part of the agreement the Cayman partnership was seen on Nickelodeon's global multimedia platforms, including on-air, online and in magazines.[84]
In 2005, Nickelodeon and Simon Spotlight released a book, Ice-Cream Dreams, as a tie-in to the film.[85] It was written by Nancy E. Krulik and illustrated by Heather Martinez, with Krulik and Derek Drymon as contributors.[86][87][88]
SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 300[edit]
On October 15, 2004, the film was the first to sponsor a NASCAR race: the 300-mile (480 km), Busch SeriesSpongeBob SquarePants Movie 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina.[89][90][91][92][93] It was the first race of its kind where children at the track could listen to a special, 'kid-friendly' radio broadcast of the event.[89][92]
Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson debuted a pair of SpongeBob SquarePants-themed Lowe'sChevrolet race cars in the race. Johnson's No. 48 Chevrolet included an image of SpongeBob across the hood, and Busch's No. 5 Chevrolet featured Patrick Star.[89][92][94] Johnson said, 'This sounds so cool [..] I know there are a lot of families who will be excited that Lowe's is doing this. The great thing is there will be something for every type of race fan. Plus how can we go wrong with SpongeBob helping us out on the car?'[89][92]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on VHS and DVD on March 1, 2005, in wide- and full-screen editions, by Paramount Home Entertainment.[95] The VHS release is known for being the last animated film by Nickelodeon Movies to be released on the platform. It contains an 18-minute featurette, The Absorbing Tale Behind The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, featuring interviews with most of the principal cast and crew; a 15-minute featurette, Case of the Sponge 'Bob', hosted by Jean-Michel Cousteau; a 20-minute animatic segment featuring scenes from the film with dialogue by the original artists, and the film's trailer.[95] As a tie-in to the film's DVD release, 7-Eleven served a limited-edition Under-the-Sea Pineapple Slurpee in March 2005.[96][97][98] The film was released as a Blu-ray-plus-DVD combination pack on March 29, 2011.[99]
It was re-released on Blu-ray on December 30, 2014.[100]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie earned $9,559,752 on its opening day in the United States, second behind Disney's National Treasure (which earned $11 million).[101][102] It grossed a combined total of $32,018,216 during its opening weekend, on 4,300 screens at 3,212 theaters, averaging $9,968 per venue (or $7,446 per screen,[103] again second to National Treasure).[103][104][105][106] The film dropped an unexpected 44 percent over the Thanksgiving weekend, and 57 percent the weekend after that.[107][108][109] The opening weekend earned 37.48 percent of the film's final gross.[107] It closed on March 24, 2005, failing to out-gross holiday animated competitors The Incredibles (from Disney-Pixar, grossing $261,441,092) and The Polar Express (from Warner Bros., grossing $183,373,735). It was still profitable for distributor Paramount Pictures and producer Nickelodeon Movies, earning $85,417,988 in the United States and $140,161,792 worldwide on a budget of $30 million.[3] The film was the 29th-highest-grossing 2004 film domestically[110] and is the sixth-highest-grossing animated TV adaptation of all time.[111]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 128 reviews and an average score of 6.2/10. The site's consensus read, 'Surreally goofy and entertaining for both children and their parents.'[112]Metacritic gave the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.[113] According to CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a grade of 'B+' on an A+ to F scale.[114]
Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times[115]
Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, calling it 'the 'Good Burger' of animation .. plopping us down inside a fast-food war being fought by sponges, starfish, crabs, tiny plankton and mighty King Neptune.'[115] Ed Park of The Village Voice wrote, 'No Pixar? No problem! An unstoppable good-mood generator, the resolutely 2-D [The] SpongeBob SquarePants Movie has more yuks than Shark Tale and enough soul to swallow The Polar Express whole.'[116] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, calling it 'an animated adventure that's funnier than Shark Tale and more charming than The Polar Express.'[117] Randy Cordova of The Arizona Republic said, 'Like the TV show it's based on, it's a daffy, enjoyable creation.'[118]Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News gave the feature a score of three out of four: 'It'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.'[119] Will Lawrence of Empire gave the film four out of five stars, calling it 'a film for kids, students, stoners, anyone who enjoys a break from reality.'[120]Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B-minus grade: 'The best moments in his [SpongeBob SquarePants] first movie outing are those that feel most TV-like, just another day in the eternally optimistic undersea society created with such contagious silliness by Stephen Hillenburg.'[121]Desson Thomson of The Washington Post enjoyed the film: 'You gotta love SpongeBob. Coolest sponge in the sea, although this one has a suspiciously manufactured look.'[122]
Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that 'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie retains 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. The series' appeal never lay in its visuals, however. 'SpongeBob' endeared itself to kids and adults through sweetness and cleverness, also abundant here.'[123]A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave it a score of four out of five: 'If you're tired of .. bluster and swagger, SpongeBob is your man.'[124] Tom Maurstad of The Dallas Morning News also gave the film a B-minus grade: 'Being so good is what led to making the movie, and it's also the reason that many small-screen episodes are better than this big-screen venture.'[125]
Some reviews praised David Hasselhoff's appearance in the film. Jennifer Frey of The Washington Post wrote, 'Getting to see the hairs on Hasselhoff's back (and thighs, and calves) magnified exponentially is perhaps a bit creepy. Like the movie, it's all in good fun.'[126] Nancy Basile of About.com, who gave the film four out of five stars, wrote that Hasselhoff 'must have a great sense of humor.'[127] Cinema Blend founder Joshua Tyler called Hasselhoff's role 'the best movie cameo I've seen since Fred Savage stuck a joint in his crotch and played a clarinet to charm the resulting smoke like a snake.'[128]
David Edelstein, in his Slate review[129]
David Edelstein of Slate criticized the film's plot, calling it a 'big, heavy anchor of a story structure to weigh him down.'[129] Mike Clark of USA Today called it 'harmlessly off-the-cuff — but facing far more pedigreed multiplex competition .. SpongeBob barely rates as OK when compared with The Incredibles.'[130] A reviewer noted in Time Out London, 'Anyone expecting anything more risky will be sadly disappointed.'[131] In his Variety review, Todd McCarthy said the film 'takes on rather too much water during its extended feature-length submersion.'[132]Internet Movie Database staff member David N. Butterworth gave it zero stars, saying that 'For much like fish, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie truly stinks.'[133]
While the film was generally well received by fans of the show, it is considered a turning point in the show's history; many fans believe that the television series has declined in quality since the film's release.[134] While episodes aired before the film were praised for their 'uncanny brilliance',[135] those aired after the film have been called 'kid-pandering attention-waster[s]',[136] 'tedious',[137] 'boring', 'dreck',[138] a 'depressing plateau of mediocrity'[139] and 'laugh-skimpy.'[140] After the film's release, fans 'began to turn away from the show,' causing fansites to 'bec[ome] deserted.'[134] Some fans believe that the show's 2012 ratings decline correlates with a decline in quality, and 'whatever fan support [the show] enjoys is not enough' to save it from its slide in ratings. This was due to the fact that Stephen Hillenburg and many writers left the show.[134]
Accolades[edit]
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Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref(s). |
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2005 | Annie Awards | Best Animated Feature | Stephen Hillenburg and Julia Pistor | Nominated | [54] |
2005 | Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Stephen Hillenburg | Nominated | [54] | |
2005 | Music in an Animated Feature Production | Gregor Narholz | Nominated | [54] | |
2005 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Top Box Office Films | Gregor Narholz | Won | [141] |
2005 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Movie | Stephen Hillenburg | Won | [142][143] |
2005 | Fave Video Game | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game | Won | [142][143] | |
2005 | Golden Satellite Awards | Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | Stephen Hillenburg | Nominated | [144] |
2005 | Golden Trailer Awards | Best Animation (Family) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Nominated | [145] |
2005 | Most Original | Nominated | [145] | ||
2006 | MTV Russia Movie Awards | Best Cartoon | Nominated | [146] | |
2005 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Animated Movie | Nominated | [147] | |
2005 | Young Artist Awards | Best Family Feature Film – Animation | Nominated | [148] |
Video game[edit]
A video game based on the film was released for PlayStation 2[149]PC,[150]Game Boy Advance,[151]Xbox[152] and GameCube on October 27, 2004[153] for Mac OS X in 2005[154] and PlayStation 3 on February 7, 2012.[155] The home-console version was developed by Heavy Iron Studios;[156] the Game Boy Advance version was developed by WayForward Technologies[151] and published by THQ.[157][158]
It was created on the same engine as SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. Game developer Heavy Iron Studios tweaked the graphics to give the game a sharper and more-imaginative look than Battle for Bikini Bottom. It increased the polygon count, added several racing levels and incorporated many creatures from the film.[156] The game's plot was based on the film, with SpongeBob and Patrick on a mission taking them outside Bikini Bottom to retrieve Neptune's crown.[159] On October 4, 2004, THQ announced the game's mobile release.[160] Nickelodeon vice-president for new-media business development Paul Jelinek said, 'As one of the leading publishers of wireless entertainment content, THQ Wireless is introducing the SpongeBob SquarePants license to a whole new audience of gamers [..] THQ has been a great partner to Nickelodeon over the years and we look forward to the same standard of excellence with these upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants games for wireless devices.'[160] The mobile console was developed by Amplified Games.[161]
Literature[edit]
- 2004: Marc Cerasini: SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: A novelization of the hit movie!, Simon Spotlight, ISBN978-0689868405
Sequel and Prequel[edit]
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water[edit]
On February 28, 2012, the production of a sequel was announced; it would be directed by Paul Tibbitt, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger and produced by Stephen Hillenburg[162] for a late-2014 release.[163][164][165] On August 1, 2013, Paramount changed the sequel's release date to February 13, 2015.[166][167][168] It was announced in early June 2014 that the film would instead be released on February 6, 2015, to avoid competition with Universal Pictures' Fifty Shades of Grey, which was set for a February 13, 2015 release.[169]
The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge[edit]
A third film, titled The SpongeBob Movie 3: It's a Wonderful Sponge,[170] is scheduled for release on May 22, 2020, with Tim Hill as writer and director.[170]
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | |
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Directed by | Stephen Hillenburg[1] |
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Story by | Stephen Hillenburg |
Based on | SpongeBob SquarePants by Stephen Hillenburg |
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Narrated by | Tom Kenny |
Music by | Gregor Narholz |
Cinematography | Jerzy Zieliński |
Edited by | Lynn Hobson |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $30 million[3] |
Box office | $140.2 million[3] |
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American live-action/animatedcomedy film based on the Nickelodeonanimated television seriesSpongeBob SquarePants. The film was co-written, directed, and produced by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, with live-action sequences directed by Mark Osborne, and features the series' cast of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass and Mr. Lawrence. The film also has new actors which include Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor, Alec Baldwin and David Hasselhoff (as himself), and is the first film in the SpongeBob SquarePants film series. In this film, Plankton devises a plan to discredit his business nemesis Mr. Krabs, steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over the world by stealing King Neptune's crown and framing Mr. Krabs for the crime. SpongeBob and Patrick team up to retrieve the crown from Shell City to save Mr. Krabs from Neptune's wrath and the oceanic world from Plankton's rule.
Previous offers by Paramount Pictures for a film adaptation of SpongeBob SquarePants had been rejected by Stephen Hillenburg, but he eventually accepted one offer in 2002. A writing team consisting of Hillenburg, Paul Tibbitt, Derek Drymon, Aaron Springer, Kent Osborne and Tim Hill was assembled, conceiving the idea of a mythical hero's quest and the search for a stolen crown, which would bring SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface. The film was originally intended as the series finale, but Nickelodeon ordered more episodes of the series as it had become increasingly profitable, so Hillenburg resigned as showrunner with Tibbitt taking his place.
The film was widely promoted by Paramount and Nickelodeon, with tie-in promotions made by 7-Eleven, the Cayman Islands and Burger King, which decorated various of its franchises with 9-foot (2.7 m) SpongeBob inflatable figures. The film was released on November 19, 2004, grossing $140 million worldwide,[3] and received generally positive reviews from critics. A sequel titled The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water was released in 2015, and a prequel titled The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge is scheduled for release in 2020.
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Plot[edit]
A group of pirates find tickets to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in a treasure chest and enter a theater to watch the film after raiding the concession stand.
SpongeBob SquarePants cheerfully prepares for the opening ceremony for the Krusty Krab 2, expecting his boss Mr. Krabs to promote him to manager of the new restaurant. Instead, Mr. Krabs names Squidward Tentacles as manager, thinking SpongeBob is too immature to handle the role, much to SpongeBob's disappointment. Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs' business rival, Plankton, complains about his failures to his computer wife Karen, being unable to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula. When Karen points out plan 'Z', a scheme which he has yet to attempt, Plankton decides to implement it.
That night, SpongeBob drowns his sorrows in ice cream with his best friend Patrick Star (The Goofy Goober Song). Elsewhere, Plankton steals King Neptune's crown, leaving false evidence to frame Mr. Krabs for the crime, and sends the crown to the distant land of Shell City. The next morning, Neptune barges into the Krusty Krab 2 and threatens Mr. Krabs for his alleged thievery. SpongeBob arrives and chastises Mr. Krabs under the influence of an ice cream headache, but seeing his boss's life at risk shocks SpongeBob back to his senses and he promises Neptune that he will retrieve the crown from Shell City. Neptune is convinced by his daughter Mindy to spare Mr. Krabs for the time being and freezes him instead, ordering SpongeBob to return with the crown in six days. Soon after SpongeBob and Patrick leave for Shell City, Plankton steals the Krabby Patty formula and uses it to produce and sell Krabby Patties at his restaurant, the Chum Bucket. He also gives away free 'Chum Bucket Helmets' to customers, which are actually mind-control devices that Plankton activates to control Bikini Bottom's residents and take over the city.
As their journey continues, SpongeBob and Patrick reach a dangerous, monster-filled trench. Coming to the conclusion that they cannot complete their quest due to their immaturity, they tearfully give up. Mindy arrives at the trench and tells SpongeBob and Patrick of Plankton's plan. She pretends to magically turn them into men by giving them seaweed mustaches. With their confidence boosted, they brave the trench ('Now That We're Men') but are confronted by Dennis, a hitman hired by Plankton to eliminate them. Dennis is stepped on by a hardhat diver that SpongeBob and Patrick believe to be a Cyclops. The Cyclops grabs SpongeBob and Patrick, and takes them to his beachside store, revealed to be Shell City.
In the store, SpongeBob and Patrick find the crown, but are dehydrated by the Cyclops' heat lamp and die. Their tears short-circuit the lamp's power cord, and its smoke activates the sprinkler system, reviving them and the other dried sea creatures intended to be sold as souvenirs. As the vengeful sea creatures attack and overwhelm the Cyclops, SpongeBob and Patrick take the crown and head for the beach, where David Hasselhoff appears and offers them a ride. He swims from the beach to Bikini Bottom carrying them on his back. Dennis catches up to them but is knocked by a catamaran back into the sea.
At the Krusty Krab 2, King Neptune arrives to execute Mr. Krabs, but SpongeBob and Patrick return with the crown just before he is able to do so. They confront Plankton, who drops a mind-control bucket on Neptune, enslaving him. Before Plankton can direct Neptune to kill them, SpongeBob accepts his childlike nature and bursts into song ('Goofy Goober Rock'), transforming into an electric guitar-wielding wizard. He shoots lasers from his guitar, destroying the mind-controlling helmets and freeing Neptune and Bikini Bottom's residents from Plankton's rule. Plankton tries to escape, but is stepped on and crushed by other citizens. Plankton is arrested and Neptune thanks SpongeBob for his bravery. Neptune thaws out Mr. Krabs, who makes SpongeBob manager of the Krusty Krab 2 in gratitude. SpongeBob joyfully exclaims that this is the greatest day of his life as he leaps into the air.
In a post-credits scene, the pirates which have been watching the film are told by an usher to leave the theater, which they begrudgingly do.
Cast[edit]
- Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants
- Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star
- Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs
- Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Lawrence as Plankton
- Jeffrey Tambor as King Neptune
- Scarlett Johansson as Princess Mindy
- Alec Baldwin as Dennis
- David Hasselhoff as himself
- Jill Talley as Karen
- Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks
- Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff
- Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs
- Dee Bradley Baker as Perch Perkins
- Carlos Alazraqui as King Neptune's squire
- Aaron Hendry as the Cyclops
- Neil Ross (voice)
- Stephen Hillenburg as the voice of the Parrot
- Kristopher Logan as Squinty the Pirate
- D.P. FitzGerald as Bonesy the Pirate
- Cole McKay as Scruffy the Pirate
- Dylan Haggerty as Stitches the Pirate
- Bart McCarthy as Captain Bart the Pirate
- Henry Kingi as Inky the Pirate
- Michael Patrick Bell as Fisherman
- Mageina Tovah as Usher
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was long-planned;[4]Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures had approached series creator Stephen Hillenburg for a film based on the show, but he refused for more than a year.[5] Hillenburg was concerned, after watching The Iron Giant and Toy Story with his son, about the challenge of SpongeBob and Patrick doing something more cinematically-consequential and inspiring without losing what he calls the SpongeBob 'cadence'.[5] He said, on a break from season-four post-production, 'To do a 75-minute movie about SpongeBob wanting to make some jellyfish jelly would be a mistake, I think [..] This had to be SpongeBob in a great adventure. That's where the comedy's coming from, having these two naïve characters, SpongeBob and Patrick, a doofus and an idiot, on this incredibly dangerous heroic odyssey with all the odds against them.'[5]
I never wanted to do a movie because I didn't think that what we wanted to say needed to be in a movie. I like the short form for animation. Then this story idea came up that lent itself to a longer format. You can't do a road trip adventure in a short form. |
— Stephen Hillenburg[6] |
In 2002, Hillenburg and the show's staff stopped making episodes to work on the film after the show's third season.[6] The film's plot originally had SpongeBob rescue Patrick from a fisherman in Florida;[6] an obvious reference to the 2003 film, Finding Nemo, this was later said by Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob) to be a 'joke' plot to keep fans busy.[6] Hillenburg wrote the film with five other writer-animators from the show (Paul Tibbitt, Derek Drymon, Aaron Springer, Kent Osborne and Tim Hill) over a three-month period in a room of a former Glendale, California bank.[5] Osborne said, 'It was hugely fun [..] although it did get kind of gamy in there.'[5] At the beginning of the series, Hillenburg screened a number of silent shorts (from Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton) and work by two modern comic actors: Jerry Lewis and Pee-wee Herman, both obvious inspirations for SpongeBob.[7] For the film, the writers created a mythical hero's quest: the search for a stolen crown, which brings SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface.[7]Bill Fagerbakke (the voice of Patrick) said about the plot, 'It's just nuts. I'm continually dazzled and delighted with what these guys came up with.'[8]
When the film was completed, Hillenburg wanted to end the series 'so [it] wouldn't jump the shark'. However, Nickelodeon desired more episodes;[9] Hillenburg stated: 'Well, there was concern when we did the movie [in 2004] that the show had peaked. There were concerns among executives at Nickelodeon.'[10][11] As a result, Hillenburg resigned as the series' showrunner,[12] appointing writer, director, and storyboard artistPaul Tibbitt to succeed him.[13] Tibbitt was one of Hillenburg's favorite crew members:[14] '[I] totally trusted him.'[15] Tibbitt would remain showrunner until he was succeeded in 2015 by the show's creative director Vincent Waller and staff writer Marc Ceccarelli. He has also acted as an executive producer since 2008.[13][16] Hillenburg no longer wrote or ran the show on a day-to-day basis, but reviewed each episode and submitted suggestions: 'I figure when I'm pretty old I can still paint [..] I don't know about running shows.'[12][17]Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke and the crew confirmed that they had completed four episodes for broadcast on Nickelodeon in early 2005,[18][19] and planned to finish a total of about 20 for the fourth season.[18][19] In 2015, Hillenburg returned to the show following the completion of the second movie as an executive producer, now having greater creative input and attending crew meetings.[20][21]
In September 2003, Jules Engel, Hillenburg's mentor when he studied experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, died.[22] Hillenburg dedicated the film to him: 'He truly was the most influential artistic person in my life. I consider him my 'Art Dad.'[23][24][25]
Casting[edit]
The film stars the series' main cast members: Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gary the Snail and the French Narrator, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, Jill Talley as Karen, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, and Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs. It also features Dee Bradley Baker as Perch Perkins, Carlos Alazraqui as King Neptune's squire, Aaron Hendry as the Cyclops, and Neil Ross as the voice of the Cyclops. In addition to the series' cast, it was reported on March 23, 2004 that Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor and Alec Baldwin would play new characters Princess Mindy, King Neptune and Dennis, respectively, and David Hasselhoff would appear as himself.[26][27]
Johansson accepted the role because she likes cartoons and was a fan of The Ren & Stimpy Show.[28] When Jeffrey Tambor signed for his voice cameo, he saw his character (King Neptune) and joked, 'This is me.'[28] He remembered the first cartoon he saw, Bambi: 'My first cartoon, I had to be carried out crying [..] It was Bambi. It's like the great American wound: the death of Bambi's mother. 'Run, Bambi, run!'[29] Another guest voice was Alec Baldwin;[27] Stephen Hillenburg said that the actor recorded his character Dennis on a 'phone':[28] 'I wouldn't say that about his performance. He might be mad if we said that. Technically, it was like he was in another booth in the studio.'[28]
Baywatch and Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff accepted the role when his daughters, Taylor-Ann and Hayley, urged him:[30] 'I got an offer to do a cameo in the SpongeBob Movie and I turned to my girls, who were like 16 and 14, and I said, 'Who's SpongeBob?' and they said, 'Oh my God, Dad, it's the number one cartoon in the world, you gotta do it.'[30] Hasselhoff enjoyed his cameo: 'It was great fun and to this day around the world kids stop me and say, 'Are you David Hasselhoff?' because I was the only human in the picture.'[30] Hasselhoff said that the film gained him new fans: 'It's amazing - so many of the kids were so young and didn't see Baywatch and Knight Rider so I got a whole new legion of fans.'[30]
Animation[edit]
There were a number of stages involved in the making of the film, beginning with a rough animation process of ideas drawn on Post-it notes.[31] The writers drew, working from rough outlines rather than scripts (which made the humor more visual than verbal).[7] Hillenburg said, 'It's in the characters' extreme body language, in how they slither capriciously around the deadpan frames.'[7] The storyboard artists, including Sherm Cohen, then illustrated ideas conceived by the writers.[8] In the series Tom Yasumi and Andrew Overtoom do the animatics, but director Hillenburg and writer Derek Drymon did the animatics for the film.[32] Yasumi and Overtoom were the film's animation-timing directors, concentrating on the sheets.[32]The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was animated at Rough Draft Studios in South Korea.[4] The animators worked semi-digitally; pencil-drawn poses would be composited into layouts in Photoshop.[33]
Series writer and storyboard artist Erik Wiese left the show for a year to work on Samurai Jack and Danny Phantom, but returned to do storyboards and character layout for the film.[9] He 'always wanted to be a feature animator, and the movie felt like I was on the character animation end', describing the experience as 'a blast—it felt like coming home.'[9]
Hillenburg enjoyed the process of making the film:[6] 'The TV schedule is tight, and you don't always have a lot of time to work on your drawings.'[6] He appreciated the film's hand-drawn animation: 'I think the movie's drawings are much superior than the TV show', although CGI animation was flourishing at the time of the film's release.[6] 'There's a lot of talk about 2-D being dead, and I hope people don't think that. Even Brad Bird is a proponent of 2-D. He would agree with me that it's all about what you're trying to say. There are many ways to tell a story, and what's unique about animation is that there are many styles with which to tell a story.'[6] The clay animation scenes were shot by Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh and Chris Finnegan at Screen Novelties in Los Angeles.[25]
Filming[edit]
The film features live-action scenes directed by Mark Osborne in Santa Monica, California.[8][34] The ship used during the 30-second opening featuring the pirates singing the theme song was the Bounty,[35][36] a 180-foot (55 m)-long, enlarged reconstruction of the 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty built for 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty. The ship appeared in a number of other films, including Treasure Island (1999), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).[37][38] In film trailers, live-action scenes were taken from Das Boot (1981), The Hunt for Red October (1990) and U-571 (2000).[6]
Baywatch and Knight Rider actor David Hasselhoff made a cameo in the live-action scenes, offering SpongeBob and Patrick a ride to Bikini Bottom.[39] The scene was originally written before consulting Hasselhoff.[18][19] Hillenburg was pleased with the storyboards;[9] Lead storyboard artist Sherm Cohen said, 'He had been wrestling with the ending for quite a while, and finally he was ready to pitch his ideas to some of the other board artists.'[9] Hillenburg was counting on casting Hasselhoff, and the first question he asked him was 'So, do we have Hasselhoff?'[9] He replied 'No', with a grin.[9] Hasselhoff eventually agreed, before seeing the script.[18][19] Hillenburg said about the actor, 'He's a great guy [..] He was great at making fun of himself.'[18][19]
The crew built a 750-pound (340 kg), 12-foot (3.7 m) replica of Hasselhoff.[34][39][40] The $100,000 replica was kept at Hasselhoff's home;[41] he has said, 'It freaked me out because it was so lifelike, with teeth, when you touch it [it] feels like real skin. It's soft, like your skin.'[41] At the completion of filming, Hasselhoff said, 'That's ridiculously awesome. What are you gonna do with it?'[41] Asked by the crew if he wanted to keep it, he answered, 'Uh, yeah. Okay.'[41] Hasselhoff filmed in cold water, where he was pulled by a sled nine yards across the sea;[8][39] he described the experience as 'cold but [a] lot of fun.'[31]
In late March 2014, Hasselhoff offered the replica up for auction with other memorabilia collected during his career. Julien's Auctions handled the item's sale, which were expected to bring in between $20,000 and $30,000. Ultimately, Hasselhoff pulled the item, just a few days before the auction.[42][43][44]
Deleted scenes[edit]
The DVD and Blu-ray releases include animatics of deleted scenes from the film, including SpongeBob and Patrick's meeting with Sandy Cheeks (a squirrel) on the surface after their escape from Shell City.[45] Patrick repeatedly vomits, upset by Sandy's unusual appearance.[45] The squirrel is pursued by black-suited exterminators,[45] and defends herself with acorns.[45] She informs SpongeBob and Patrick that they can return to Bikini Bottom by taking a bus at the beach.[45] This idea was later used for the second film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, where Sandy became a giant realistic squirrel.
When SpongeBob awakens with a hangover on the Goofy Goober party boat, he asks a waiter for a 'Double-Fudge Spinny';[45] the rejected line was used in a tie-in book, Ice-Cream Dreams, which was based on the film.[45] In 2013 the film's lead storyboard artist, Sherm Cohen, released a storyboard panel of a deleted scene from the film with SpongeBob awakening from his dream saying 'WEEEEE!' and Mr. Krabs holding a manager's hat.[46][47]
Soundtrack[edit]
Gregor Narholz composed the score for the film,[48][49][50] conducting the recording sessions (in 5.1 surround sound) with the London Metropolitan Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London.[51][52] Narholz was signed when series music editor Nick Carr recommended him to Hillenburg after they worked together at the Associated Production Music library.[9] Narholz was honored at the 2005 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for his work on the film,[53] and received a nomination for Music in an Animated Feature Production at the 32nd Annie Awards.[54][55]
American rock band The Flaming Lips recorded 'SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy'.[56][57] They shot the song's music video, directed by band member Wayne Coyne and filmmaker Bradley Beesley, in Austin, Texas.[56] Coyne said, 'Stephen [Hillenburg] seems to be a fan of the weirder music of the late '80s and early '90s [..] He wanted to evoke the music he got turned onto back then.'[56] Coyne suggested a duet with Justin Timberlake, but Hillenburg refused,[58] saying 'I don't want any of those sort of commercial weirdos on there. I don't like those commercial people. I like you guys, and Wilco and Ween.'[58] American band Wilco wrote and recorded 'Just a Kid'.[57][59] One of the film's producers contacted frontman Jeff Tweedy after seeing a SpongeBob air freshener hanging from Tweedy's rearview mirror in I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.[59] Tweedy said, 'I fell in love with SpongeBob when I heard him describe the darkness at the bottom of the sea as 'advanced darkness' [..] How could I not write a song for this film? It automatically makes me the coolest dad on the block.'[59]Avril Lavigne recorded the series' theme for the soundtrack.[60][61][62] Other artists contributing to the soundtrack were Motörhead, singing 'You Better Swim' (a derivative of their 1992 song 'You'd Better Run');[63][64][65]Prince Paul ('Prince Paul's Bubble Party');[63]Ween ('Ocean Man'),[63] and the Shins ('They'll Soon Discover', partially written in 2001).[66]
'The Best Day Ever', written by Tom Kenny (SpongeBob's voice actor) and Andy Paley, was featured in the film and on its soundtrack. Kenny and Paley were working on what would become the album The Best Day Ever, writing 'The Best Day Ever' and 'Under My Rock'.[67] The film's production team needed two more tracks for the soundtrack;[67] Hillenburg heard the songs, and decided to include them.[67] 'The Best Day Ever' ended up being played during the film's closing credits.[67]
Release[edit]
The film's trailer was released on May 19, 2004, and was attached to Shrek 2.[68]The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie opened in theaters on November 19, 2004;[69] its yellow-carpet world premiere was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on November 14, 2004.[70][71][72] Among celebrities who saw the premiere with their children were Ray Romano, Larry King, Ice Cube, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's Gary Dourdan and Friends'Lisa Kudrow.[73] The carpet was a reminder of home for Tom Kenny, SpongeBob's voice actor; he said, 'I have a 15-month-old daughter, so I'm no stranger to yellow carpets.'[73]
Marketing[edit]
Julia Pistor, the film's co-producer, said that although Nickelodeon (which owns the SpongeBob trademark) wanted to sell character-themed backpacks, lunch boxes and wristwatches it respected Hillenburg's integrity and gave him control of merchandising.[7] Hillenburg had no problem with candy and ice cream tie-ins, Pistor said (because of the treats' simplicity),[7] but he had issues with fast food tie-ins; according to him, the latter was 'full of hidden additives.'[7] Pistor said, 'The trouble is that you can't go out with animated films without a fast-food tie-in [..] People don't take you seriously.'[7] Hillenburg replied, 'Yeah, well, my take on that is that we shouldn't do that [..] We didn't want to suddenly become the people serving up food that's not that good for you - especially kids. We work with Burger King, and they make toys and watches. But to actually take the step of pushing the food, that's crossing the line. I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.'[7]
The film was promoted across the United States. Nickelodeon joined Burger King for a 12-figure toy line based on the film, and about 4,700 Burger King stores perched 9-foot (2.7 m), inflatable SpongeBob figures on their roofs as part of the promotion (one of the largest in fast-food history).[74] Customers could also purchase one of five different SpongeBob-themed watches for $1.99 with the purchase of a value meal.[74]
On November 11, 2004, it was reported that a number of the inflatables had been stolen from Burger King roofs nationwide.[74][75] Burger King chief marketing officer Russ Klein said, 'As to the motives behind these apparent 'spongenappings', we can only speculate.[74][76] We did receive one ransom note related to an inflatable SpongeBob disappearance in Minnesota.'[74][76] The chain offered a year's supply of Whopper sandwiches as a reward for information leading to the return of inflatables stolen in November.[74][76][77][78] One was found attached to a railing at the football-field 50-yard line at an Iowa college,[79] and another under a bed in Virginia.[79] A ransom note was found for a third: 'We have SpongeBob. Give us 10 Krabby Patties, fries, and milkshakes.'[79] Steven Simon and Conrad (C.J.) Mercure Jr. were arrested after stealing an inflatable from a Burger King in St. Mary's County, Maryland.[80][81] While facing up to 18 months in jail and a $500 fine, Simon and Mercure said they were proud of what they did;[81][82] Simon said, 'Once we got caught by the police, we were like, now we can tell everybody.'[81][82] The following year Burger King took 'extra security precautions', when Stormtroopers from George Lucas' Star Wars guarded the delivery of Star Wars toys to a Burger King in North Hollywood.[83]
The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea, joined with Nickelodeon to create the first Cayman Islands Sea School with SpongeBob for the film.[84] The partnership was announced by Pilar Bush, Deputy Director of Tourism for Cayman Islands, on March 10, 2004.[84] As part of the agreement the Cayman partnership was seen on Nickelodeon's global multimedia platforms, including on-air, online and in magazines.[84]
In 2005, Nickelodeon and Simon Spotlight released a book, Ice-Cream Dreams, as a tie-in to the film.[85] It was written by Nancy E. Krulik and illustrated by Heather Martinez, with Krulik and Derek Drymon as contributors.[86][87][88]
SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 300[edit]
On October 15, 2004, the film was the first to sponsor a NASCAR race: the 300-mile (480 km), Busch SeriesSpongeBob SquarePants Movie 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina.[89][90][91][92][93] It was the first race of its kind where children at the track could listen to a special, 'kid-friendly' radio broadcast of the event.[89][92]
Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson debuted a pair of SpongeBob SquarePants-themed Lowe'sChevrolet race cars in the race. Johnson's No. 48 Chevrolet included an image of SpongeBob across the hood, and Busch's No. 5 Chevrolet featured Patrick Star.[89][92][94] Johnson said, 'This sounds so cool [..] I know there are a lot of families who will be excited that Lowe's is doing this. The great thing is there will be something for every type of race fan. Plus how can we go wrong with SpongeBob helping us out on the car?'[89][92]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on VHS and DVD on March 1, 2005, in wide- and full-screen editions, by Paramount Home Entertainment.[95] The VHS release is known for being the last animated film by Nickelodeon Movies to be released on the platform. It contains an 18-minute featurette, The Absorbing Tale Behind The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, featuring interviews with most of the principal cast and crew; a 15-minute featurette, Case of the Sponge 'Bob', hosted by Jean-Michel Cousteau; a 20-minute animatic segment featuring scenes from the film with dialogue by the original artists, and the film's trailer.[95] As a tie-in to the film's DVD release, 7-Eleven served a limited-edition Under-the-Sea Pineapple Slurpee in March 2005.[96][97][98] The film was released as a Blu-ray-plus-DVD combination pack on March 29, 2011.[99]
It was re-released on Blu-ray on December 30, 2014.[100]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie earned $9,559,752 on its opening day in the United States, second behind Disney's National Treasure (which earned $11 million).[101][102] It grossed a combined total of $32,018,216 during its opening weekend, on 4,300 screens at 3,212 theaters, averaging $9,968 per venue (or $7,446 per screen,[103] again second to National Treasure).[103][104][105][106] The film dropped an unexpected 44 percent over the Thanksgiving weekend, and 57 percent the weekend after that.[107][108][109] The opening weekend earned 37.48 percent of the film's final gross.[107] It closed on March 24, 2005, failing to out-gross holiday animated competitors The Incredibles (from Disney-Pixar, grossing $261,441,092) and The Polar Express (from Warner Bros., grossing $183,373,735). It was still profitable for distributor Paramount Pictures and producer Nickelodeon Movies, earning $85,417,988 in the United States and $140,161,792 worldwide on a budget of $30 million.[3] The film was the 29th-highest-grossing 2004 film domestically[110] and is the sixth-highest-grossing animated TV adaptation of all time.[111]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 128 reviews and an average score of 6.2/10. The site's consensus read, 'Surreally goofy and entertaining for both children and their parents.'[112]Metacritic gave the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.[113] According to CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a grade of 'B+' on an A+ to F scale.[114]
Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times[115]
Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, calling it 'the 'Good Burger' of animation .. plopping us down inside a fast-food war being fought by sponges, starfish, crabs, tiny plankton and mighty King Neptune.'[115] Ed Park of The Village Voice wrote, 'No Pixar? No problem! An unstoppable good-mood generator, the resolutely 2-D [The] SpongeBob SquarePants Movie has more yuks than Shark Tale and enough soul to swallow The Polar Express whole.'[116] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, calling it 'an animated adventure that's funnier than Shark Tale and more charming than The Polar Express.'[117] Randy Cordova of The Arizona Republic said, 'Like the TV show it's based on, it's a daffy, enjoyable creation.'[118]Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News gave the feature a score of three out of four: 'It'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.'[119] Will Lawrence of Empire gave the film four out of five stars, calling it 'a film for kids, students, stoners, anyone who enjoys a break from reality.'[120]Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B-minus grade: 'The best moments in his [SpongeBob SquarePants] first movie outing are those that feel most TV-like, just another day in the eternally optimistic undersea society created with such contagious silliness by Stephen Hillenburg.'[121]Desson Thomson of The Washington Post enjoyed the film: 'You gotta love SpongeBob. Coolest sponge in the sea, although this one has a suspiciously manufactured look.'[122]
Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that 'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie retains 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. The series' appeal never lay in its visuals, however. 'SpongeBob' endeared itself to kids and adults through sweetness and cleverness, also abundant here.'[123]A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave it a score of four out of five: 'If you're tired of .. bluster and swagger, SpongeBob is your man.'[124] Tom Maurstad of The Dallas Morning News also gave the film a B-minus grade: 'Being so good is what led to making the movie, and it's also the reason that many small-screen episodes are better than this big-screen venture.'[125]
Some reviews praised David Hasselhoff's appearance in the film. Jennifer Frey of The Washington Post wrote, 'Getting to see the hairs on Hasselhoff's back (and thighs, and calves) magnified exponentially is perhaps a bit creepy. Like the movie, it's all in good fun.'[126] Nancy Basile of About.com, who gave the film four out of five stars, wrote that Hasselhoff 'must have a great sense of humor.'[127] Cinema Blend founder Joshua Tyler called Hasselhoff's role 'the best movie cameo I've seen since Fred Savage stuck a joint in his crotch and played a clarinet to charm the resulting smoke like a snake.'[128]
David Edelstein, in his Slate review[129]
David Edelstein of Slate criticized the film's plot, calling it a 'big, heavy anchor of a story structure to weigh him down.'[129] Mike Clark of USA Today called it 'harmlessly off-the-cuff — but facing far more pedigreed multiplex competition .. SpongeBob barely rates as OK when compared with The Incredibles.'[130] A reviewer noted in Time Out London, 'Anyone expecting anything more risky will be sadly disappointed.'[131] In his Variety review, Todd McCarthy said the film 'takes on rather too much water during its extended feature-length submersion.'[132]Internet Movie Database staff member David N. Butterworth gave it zero stars, saying that 'For much like fish, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie truly stinks.'[133]
While the film was generally well received by fans of the show, it is considered a turning point in the show's history; many fans believe that the television series has declined in quality since the film's release.[134] While episodes aired before the film were praised for their 'uncanny brilliance',[135] those aired after the film have been called 'kid-pandering attention-waster[s]',[136] 'tedious',[137] 'boring', 'dreck',[138] a 'depressing plateau of mediocrity'[139] and 'laugh-skimpy.'[140] After the film's release, fans 'began to turn away from the show,' causing fansites to 'bec[ome] deserted.'[134] Some fans believe that the show's 2012 ratings decline correlates with a decline in quality, and 'whatever fan support [the show] enjoys is not enough' to save it from its slide in ratings. This was due to the fact that Stephen Hillenburg and many writers left the show.[134]
Accolades[edit]
Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref(s). |
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2005 | Annie Awards | Best Animated Feature | Stephen Hillenburg and Julia Pistor | Nominated | [54] |
2005 | Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Stephen Hillenburg | Nominated | [54] | |
2005 | Music in an Animated Feature Production | Gregor Narholz | Nominated | [54] | |
2005 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Top Box Office Films | Gregor Narholz | Won | [141] |
2005 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Movie | Stephen Hillenburg | Won | [142][143] |
2005 | Fave Video Game | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game | Won | [142][143] | |
2005 | Golden Satellite Awards | Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | Stephen Hillenburg | Nominated | [144] |
2005 | Golden Trailer Awards | Best Animation (Family) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Nominated | [145] |
2005 | Most Original | Nominated | [145] | ||
2006 | MTV Russia Movie Awards | Best Cartoon | Nominated | [146] | |
2005 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Animated Movie | Nominated | [147] | |
2005 | Young Artist Awards | Best Family Feature Film – Animation | Nominated | [148] |
Video game[edit]
A video game based on the film was released for PlayStation 2[149]PC,[150]Game Boy Advance,[151]Xbox[152] and GameCube on October 27, 2004[153] for Mac OS X in 2005[154] and PlayStation 3 on February 7, 2012.[155] The home-console version was developed by Heavy Iron Studios;[156] the Game Boy Advance version was developed by WayForward Technologies[151] and published by THQ.[157][158]
It was created on the same engine as SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. Game developer Heavy Iron Studios tweaked the graphics to give the game a sharper and more-imaginative look than Battle for Bikini Bottom. It increased the polygon count, added several racing levels and incorporated many creatures from the film.[156] The game's plot was based on the film, with SpongeBob and Patrick on a mission taking them outside Bikini Bottom to retrieve Neptune's crown.[159] On October 4, 2004, THQ announced the game's mobile release.[160] Nickelodeon vice-president for new-media business development Paul Jelinek said, 'As one of the leading publishers of wireless entertainment content, THQ Wireless is introducing the SpongeBob SquarePants license to a whole new audience of gamers [..] THQ has been a great partner to Nickelodeon over the years and we look forward to the same standard of excellence with these upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants games for wireless devices.'[160] The mobile console was developed by Amplified Games.[161]
Literature[edit]
- 2004: Marc Cerasini: SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: A novelization of the hit movie!, Simon Spotlight, ISBN978-0689868405
Sequel and Prequel[edit]
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water[edit]
On February 28, 2012, the production of a sequel was announced; it would be directed by Paul Tibbitt, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger and produced by Stephen Hillenburg[162] for a late-2014 release.[163][164][165] On August 1, 2013, Paramount changed the sequel's release date to February 13, 2015.[166][167][168] It was announced in early June 2014 that the film would instead be released on February 6, 2015, to avoid competition with Universal Pictures' Fifty Shades of Grey, which was set for a February 13, 2015 release.[169]
The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge[edit]
A third film, titled The SpongeBob Movie 3: It's a Wonderful Sponge,[170] is scheduled for release on May 22, 2020, with Tim Hill as writer and director.[170]
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