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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, also known as SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie is the first full-length feature film based on Nickelodeon's hit TV show SpongeBob SquarePants. The film was released in US theaters on November 19, 2004.

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
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Teaser poster of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Directed byStephen Hillenburg
Written byStephen Hillenburg
Derek Drymon
Tim Hill
Kent Osborne
Aaron Springer
Paul Tibbitt
Produced byDerek Drymon
Albie Hecht
Stephen Hillenburg
Julia Pistor
Gina Shay
StarringTom Kenny
Clancy Brown
Rodger Bumpass
Bill Fagerbakke
Scarlett Johansson
Doug Lawrence
Jeffrey Tambor
David Hasselhoff
Alec Baldwin
Music byGregor Narholz
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Nickelodeon Movies
Release dates
November 19 2004 (USA) March 29, 2005 DVD
Running time
87 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUSD$30,000,000 (estimated)

Cast

Perch Perkins (voice) Goofy Goober (voice)

Plot

Template:Spoiler Plankton has stolen King Neptune's crown. SpongeBob and Patrick must brave the mysterious town of Shell City to find it. Plankton, meanwhile, has gotten control of Krab's secret Krabby Patty formula. His restaurant, The Chum Bucket, finally becomes popular. With each meal, Plankton hands out a free bucket hat. These bucket hats end up actually being mind control devices and Plankton takes control of Bikini Bottom while King Neptune II mourns his lost crown.

Detailed synopsis

The film opens with a group of live action pirates finding tickets to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. After singing the theme song in a sea shanty, they plow into the theater just as the movie begins.

SpongeBob, new manager of the Krusty Krab, confronts a dire situation: a customer ordered a Krabby Patty with cheese, but didn't get his cheese. Spongebob goes in and puts cheese on the patty. Everyone gives three cheers for Spongebob, but the cheers are actually his alarm clock ringing, waking him up from his dream.

 
King Neptune as seen in the movie

SpongeBob runs to the Krusty Krab, sure that he'll be the one Mr. Krabs chooses as manager of the "Krusty Krab 2"; Krabs has opened a second Krusty Krab right next to the first one so he could get more money. A crowd has gathered, ready to learn the name of the manager. SpongeBob is sure he'll win the position, but his dreams are quickly shattered when Mr. Krabs announces Squidward as the new manager. Apparently, SpongeBob isn't mature enough to handle the great responsibility. Heartbroken, he sadly walks into the sunset.

Meanwhile, across the street in the Chum Bucket, Plankton looks through his evil plans to get the secret recipe of the Krabby Patty. Plans A through Y have all failed miserably, and Plankton considers giving up once and for all, when his computer wife Karen points out that he hasn't tried Plan Z yet. Excited, Plankton gets things ready.

At Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat (a spoof of Chuck E. Cheese's), SpongeBob and Patrick's new favorite undersea hangout, SpongeBob sulks at the nut bar with Patrick. The duo drowns their sorrows in ice cream and get completely "drunk" (it should be noted that while older people may understand what is happening in the movie, most younger children probably won't).

Meanwhile, Plankton sneaks into King Neptune II's castle and steals his crown. Neptune (Jeffrey Tambor) is more angered at not having anything to cover his bald spot than at having the symbol of his power stolen. He discovers a note Plankton planted on the scene framing Mr. Krabs. At the Krusty Krab, Krabs denies Neptune's accusations up and down. Neptune isn't fazed when Krabs receives a phone call from a guy in Shell City (apparently a terrible place because even Neptune fears it) thanking him for the crown. SpongeBob pleads with Neptune to let him and Patrick find the crown for him. Neptune agrees and gives the duo six days to find it, with Mr. Krabs' life at stake (Neptune actually freezes Krabs in the spot where he stands, and will not unfreeze him unless his crown is returned). SpongeBob and Patrick bust out the Patty Wagon, a new Krusty Krab promotional vehicle, and head out on the open road.

At the county line, they run into a couple of hillbilly fish, who warn them not to go past the line. Of course, they don't listen, and quickly get their ride stolen by a thug. After a day of walking, they find their car at the Thug Tug, a rough and tough joint, the toughest of whose patrons is the fish Victor. Unable to get the key off the fish that stole it, they head to the bathroom and have a random bubble party. Apparently the tough fish find bubbles to be for little kids, and the manager demands to know who blew the bubble. The test: play the Goofy Goober theme song, and whoever can't resist singing it will be the culprit. SpongeBob and Patrick struggle not to sing along, and breathe a collective sigh of relief when another tough fish sings the song. While the unfortunate fish is beaten by his friends (thanks to a rule in the bar), Patrick steals the key back, and the duo head off.

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Mindy the Mermaid as seen in the movie.

Back in Bikini Bottom, Plankton steals the Krabby Patty secret formula and starts churning out patties at the Chum Bucket. People are loving it, of course, eating their Krabby Patties and wearing their new Chum Bucket helmets. Squidward knows something is up, but has no time to snitch to Neptune, as the Chum Bucket helmets begin mind controlling their wearers.

SpongeBob and Patrick drive through a field of skulls when they encounter a little old lady giving away free ice cream. However, the old lady is actually the tongue of a giant frogfish, who chases the duo until it is eaten by a bigger monster in a monster-filled trench. Stuck with no way to get over the trench, SpongeBob and Patrick break down, realizing they really are just kids. Neptune's daughter Mindy (Scarlett Johansson) shows up to help the kids regain their confidence by showing them the fate of the Bikini Bottomers, nothing but slaves to Plankton, and uses her "mermaid magic" to turn the duo into men. In actuality, she just sticks seaweed moustaches on their faces while their eyes are closed. She also gives them a bag of winds, which they are to use to get back to Bikini Bottom once her father's crown is regained.

Convinced that they're finally men, they jump into the trench and bravely burst right through it, singing all the way. The monsters, impressed by their manliness, follow them and sing along, instead of devouring them.

Plankton's hired hitman, Dennis (Alec Baldwin), suddenly appears, ready to exterminate SpongeBob and Patrick. However, a scuba diver squishes Dennis and abducts the duo. When they wake up, they find themselves at a gift shop on dry land known as Shell City. Right across from their fish bowl is King Neptune's crown. The evil scuba diver (the "Cyclops") sets them on a table to dry them out. They realize that the gift shop is, in fact, Shell City, and "die" happily, singing the Goofy Goober Song. Back in the theater, the pirates mourn the loss of SpongeBob and Patrick, when a parrot advises them to continue watching the film. The duo's tears land on the plug, short circuiting the lamp. The smoke causes the fire sprinkler to activate, bringing all of the gift shop items to life including, for some reason, a mariachi band made from fish. As they attack the scuba diver, SpongeBob and Patrick get the crown and make it back to the sea.

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Dennis the Hitman as seen in the movie

It is the final day, and Mr. Krab's execution is close at hand unless Mindy can stall her father long enough.

Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick try to get back to Bikini Bottom with the crown, but the bag of winds blows away as Patrick tries to use it. Things apparently are hopeless.

Suddenly, David Hasselhoff appears out of nowhere to save the day, more than willing to help SpongeBob and Patrick get back to Bikini Bottom. Happy that their luck is still with them, the two friends take to the water on Hasselhoff's legs as he speeds through the water like a powerboat.

However, during the ride, Dennis makes his return. The ultimate battle begins on Hasselhoff's bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick try to keep from being stabbed, and they keep the hitman distracted long enough for him to hit the bottom of a boat and fall off. Hasselhoff uses his pecs to shoot the duo down through the roof of the Krusty Krab just as Mr. Krabs is about to fry. Plankton has an ace up his sleeve, though, and ambushes Neptune with a Chum Bucket helmet! Now everyone in town is a slave to Plankton: Plan Z has all but succeeded. But before the good guys can lose, SpongeBob uses the Goofy Goober song and the power of rock and roll to destroy all of the mind control helmets and save the day.

Neptune's crown is back, Mr. Krabs is free, Plankton is arrested, SpongeBob and Patrick are men, and SpongeBob finally fulfils his dream by becoming manager of the Krusty Krab 2. At that point, the pirates are forced to leave the movie theater.

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Reception

The movie earned $85,416,609 in the United States and $135,311,137 worldwide as of March 24, 2005. On Rotten Tomatoes, The film got a Fresh 70% rating with 76 fresh reviews out of 109.

Soundtrack

Main article: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (soundtrack)
# Song Title Performer
1 "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song" Avril Lavigne
2 "SpongeBob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy" The Flaming Lips
3 "Just A Kid" Wilco
4 "The Goofy Goober Song" Mike Simpson, featuring SpongeBob, Patrick & The Goofy Goober
5 "Prince Paul's Bubble Party" The Waikikis, Prince Paul & Wordsworth
6 "Bikini Bottom" Electrocute
7 The Best Day Ever SpongeBob
8 "They'll Soon Discover" The Shins
9 "Ocean Rock" Ween
10 "Under My Rock" Patrick
11 "Now That We're Men" SpongeBob, Patrick & The Monsters
12 "Goofy Goober Rock" Tom Rothrock featuring Jim Wise
13 "You Better Swim" Motorhead
14 "The Jellyfish Song" The Jellyfish Band, Tech Squeezebox Featuring SpongeBob
15 "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song" (Film Version) The Pirates

Cultural References

  • The teaser trailer uses footage from Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, and U-571.
  • The original "cover-up" plot of the film had SpongeBob going to rescue Patrick from a fisherman in Florida. This was an obvious reference to Finding Nemo (2003) and was later revealed by Tom Kenny to be just a "joke" plot which he made up to keep the fans busy. (However, Patrick actually does get caught by a fisherman in the episode Hooky.)
  • There are pictures of Krazy Kat and Popeye hanging in the background of the ice cream parlor.
  • This film is dedicated to Jules Engel (1909-2003).
  • The first two signal flags in the front of the Krusty Krab mean "Romeo" and "India" respectively while the last two mean "uniform" and "kilo". The middle flag has no meaning.
  • The song playing during the title slide for "The Great Snail Race" was "Now That We're Men" from this film, but the song was never made for this film. This is because "The Great Snail Race" was released a year before this film.
  • The kid version of Mr. Krabs in the real boy ending is from Oh Yeah! Cartoons.
  • The short scene where Mr. Krabs strangles Patrick's neck was a reference to what Homer Simpson does to Bart Simpson in The Simpsons.
  • The "Goofy Goober Rock" song is a cover/parody of famous rock staple, "I Wanna Rock" by Twisted Sister off their Stay Hungry album. The song also samples "Just a Gigolo" by David Lee Roth, specifically his scatting towards the final chorus.
  • The scene where Goofy Goober Rock, an upbeat version of The Goofy Goober Song, destroys Plankton's mind-control helmets and the scene in Leroy & Stitch, where an upbeat version of Aloha 'Oe shuts down all the Leroys, share a similarity.
  • This movie gives homage to Homer's The Odyssey in its use of a Bag of Winds. The "cyclops" may also be a reference to The Odyssey.

Continuity Errors

  • The movie begins shortly before Spongebob wakes up. Seemingly only a few minutes later Spongebob talks to Patrick, before exclaiming it was 8 o'clock, and quickly made his way towards the second Krusty Krab's opening ceremony. Strangely, when Spongebob finds out that he isn't the manager of the new restaurant, he walks off towards the sunset. Unless the ceremony was much later than 8 o'clock (which would be odd, since Spongebob claimed he was late for work), the day passed by very quickly.
  • In the movie, King Neptune looks utterly different than he used to be at the series. (The character is also played by a different actor- John O'Hurley played Neptune on the TV series in his one and only appearance.)
  • It is possible that the movie storyline takes place after all of the episodes. At the end, SpongeBob becomes the manager of the Krusty Krab 2, but, even in the new episodes, the Krusty Krab 2 does not exist and SpongeBob is still a fry cook at the Krusty Krab. Also, in the new episodes, Plankton is still trying to steal the formula, but in the movie, he is putting his final plan into play. It has been confirmed by Stephen Hillennburg this was actually the series finale even though it did not air after all the other episodes.
  • Of all the characters, Spongebob has the most different drawing. He is a very bright yellow, slightly shorter, and his pupils are smaller. He looks even more different in season four, because he is even shorter than in the movie, he is a very light green, and he even has a higher voice.

Trivia

  • This film, because of Neptune's age, opposed to the one in The Fry Cook Games, has been considered as a climax to the Spongebob series.
  • This is the first and only appearances of Dennis and Mindy [To Date].
  • This is the only time Karen the Computer Wife has been shown as a standing monitor.
  • There are three words that are considered as profanity in this film. At the beginning, Mr. Krabs whispers "jackass" to SpongeBob. When King Neptune shows Mr. Krabs, he says and thinks he left "one damning piece of evidence at the scene of the crime". During Goofy Goober Rock, SpongeBob sings "No, no freaking way!" which is often frowned upon by parents. The song has been changed to him singing "No, no, no, no way!" in the soundtrack, which was released ten days before the film, but the song remains unchanged in the film and game. None of them were censored in the film.
  • This was the fourth Nickelodeon animated film to be rated PG by the MPAA. The first three were Hey Arnold!: The Movie, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, and Rugrats Go Wild!.
  • This was also the first PG-rated Nickelodeon animated film to contain swear words, which aren't censored.
  • This was the third time we hear Gary speaking English, he says "Meow, Plankton". The first was in Sleepy Time (when SpongeBob in his dream, he speaks English) and the second was in The Secret Box (he says "Me...no!", which was also heard in the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds).
  • At the beginning of the film, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are seen in the drawing on SpongeBob's wall.
  • Dennis taking off his sunglasses to reveal another pair is a reference to a gag in Airplane!.
  • This is the third time SpongeBob is voiced by a different person for a song, first being in "Ripped Pants" and "Band Geeks".
  • When Patrick and Neptune fight over how many days they can do the task in this is similar to "Neptune's Spatula", where Patrick fights with Neptune also.
  • One of the citizens of Bikini Bottom has the same design on her outfit as on Patrick's shorts.
  • In the run of the series, 3 actors have played King Neptune, John O'Hurley, Kevin Michael Richardson, and for the movie, Jeffrey Tambor.
  • A trailer was shown during the premiere of The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour.
  • This was the second Nicktoon film Alec Baldwin voiced in; he voiced Dennis the Hitman. Previously, the role for Adult Timmy Turner was in The Fairly OddParents television film Channel Chasers.
  • The movie was shown on TV for the first time on November 10, 2006 after a 24-hour marathon of SpongeBob (see The Best Day Ever).
  • SpongeBob has probably worked for the Krusty Krab for at least 31 years, according to his 374 consecutive Employee of the Month awards (unless Mr. Krabs gives them every week).
  • The Patty Wagon appears to have a manual transmission.
  • When in Planktons cabniet, one of the files says PG, the MPAA rating for this film in theatres.
  • The song, "Now that were men" seems to parody the tune of, "The Longest Day"
  • When Mindy shows Spongebob and Patrick that everyone is under Plankton's contol, Mrs. Puff is shown smashing rocks like she did in the episode Doing Time.


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