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See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.įebruary 6th, 2015 (Wide) by Paramount Pictures Three stars out of four.All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 301-400)Īll Time International Box Office (Rank 601-700)Īll Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 401-500) If you like the yellow guy on TV, you should have a good, squishy time here, too.
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It’s striking to realize that SpongeBob, the character, is more than 15 years old in sponge years (the TV series’ creator, Stephen Hillenburg, is an executive producer here.) He’s isn’t slowing down. There’s also a cute visual gag making fun of those of us who would never mix the garbage with the recycling. “Unleash the condiments!” Krabs says at one point in a battle. Kids, likely, will be the prime audience for these energetic shenanigans. This isn’t a battle to be fought by mere, well, puppets – and so they make another transformation, into glorious superhero versions of themselves, the better to battle that snack-stealing pirate and rescue their desperate hometown. Here, they assume their new, 3D form, the better to run around the beach (peopled by live-action humans) and track down the villainous Burger Beard, who’s up to something nasty.
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They’re hungry – very hungry.Įventually, SpongeBob and his posse, which includes series regulars Squidward (Rodger Bumpass), Sandy (Carolyn Lawrence) and, of course, starfish Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke), will end up traveling somewhere they’ve never been: up to the surface, and out of the water. It’s an urgent mission, because without its beloved snack, Bikini Bottom falls immediately into an apocalyptic state, with everyone wearing leather and turning evil. The two rivals join forces to find it, and this quest drives the movie, with many a wacky tangent awaiting – including time travel and even space travel, up to a weird platform somewhere in the universe where a porpoise who sounds delightfully like Christopher Walken makes sure the planets don’t collide.īut back to the recipe. He fails, but the formula actually disappears. Krabs (Clancy Brown), who keeps the secret recipe stowed away in a vault.īack down in Bikini Bottom, rival restaurant owner Plankton is trying to steal the formula, as usual. “This is way overdue,” the pirate says.) We learn how Bikini Bottom is addicted to Krabby Patties, the succulent burgers made only at Krusty Krab, the fast-food joint where SpongeBob (voiced by Tom Kenny) works for Mr. (In a clever touch that parents will like, an old library card shows the previous borrowers, who include Davy Jones. The book tells the story of Bikini Bottom – a device to bring newcomers up to speed. We meet a nefarious pirate character named Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas, in live action and game for anything), tracking down a precious ancient book via his treasure map.
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The movie – the second feature-length outing for the durable Nickelodeon TV character, and the first since 2004 – begins somewhere above the undersea hamlet of Bikini Bottom, where SpongeBob lives. As I left the theater, I heard a father telling his young son wearily, “That’s about all the SpongeBob I can take.” The son, it seemed, could have taken a few hours more. When, in the thoroughly enjoyable (though somewhat exhausting) “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water,” the tiny, scheming Plankton takes a surreptitious trip into one of those sponge-holes, he finds a brain coated with cotton candy, rainbows and all manner of sweets, like a scene from “The Nutcracker.” It’s enough to make a cynical little organism sick, but it makes us love sweet SpongeBob even more.Īs does director Paul Tibbitt’s new movie, which is zany and clever and fun (and in 3D), as long as you can take 93 minutes of it. Would that all of our brains resembled that of SpongeBob SquarePants – and we’re talking about his actual brain, like, the cerebral matter located somewhere inside that porous yellow body. Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies/Associated Press