US EditionMovie Review: SpongeBob is back in madcap ‘Search for SquarePants’
The film uses bold 3D animation and features SpongeBob’s journey to prove his courage through a madcap underworld adventure involving the Flying Dutchman.
- On Saturday, December 20th, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants opens in cinemas with previews from Thursday, December 18th, released by Paramount Pictures and rated PG by the Motion Picture Association.
- After Stephen Hillenburg’s passing, the franchise returns for a fourth feature directed by longtime series veteran Derek Drymon and written by Pam Brady and Matt Lieberman.
- In its visuals, the film embraces 3D animation, a shift some find jarring, while the underworld features surreal sirens, guardian skeletons felled by laughter, and a three-headed seagull.
- The reviewer gave the film two and a half stars out of four, noting the irreverent sense of play and fresh visual gags and musical cues sustain audience enjoyment.
- It also mixes manic set-pieces and live-action scenes for variety, layering manic montage into the studio boss’ office and Santa Monica live-action sequences.
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Movie Review: SpongeBob is back in madcap ‘Search for SquarePants’
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Movie Review: 'The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants'
NEW YORK (OSV News) – Cartoon characters can devolve into dullards over time. But some are more enduringly appealing than others, as the adventure “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” (Paramount) proves. Yellow, absorbent and porous on the outside, unflaggingly upbeat SpongeBob (voice of Tom Kenny) is childlike and anxious to please within. He also displays the kind of eagerness for grown-up experiences that is often found in real-life …
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