The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Name: The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Released: 2025
Rating: 6.4

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2025 ·88 min ·United States of America ·PG 6+

★6.4

IMDb 5.7 КП 5.9 RT 78% MC 65

Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Director: Derek Drymon

🎭 Based on «SpongeBob SquarePants»

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Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman – a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate – on a seafaring adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

Budget: $64M

US Gross: $70.48M

Worldwide: $163.2M

Starring

Tom Kenny

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Clancy Brown

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Rodger Bumpass

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Awards

🏆4 nominations total

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This SpongeBob installment functions as a visually vibrant, neon-soaked adventure that balances existential character study with standard franchise slapstick. While it effectively serves its target younger demographic, the film struggles to reconcile its more profound thematic undercurrents with distracting, dated pop-culture humor.

	Acting	The voice performances from Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, and Roger Bumpass anchor the film, providing genuine emotional weight to their iconic roles.
	Accessibility	The film succeeds as a lighthearted and festive experience for children, delivering a reliable dose of slapstick and adventure.
	Screenplay	The script suffers from the forced inclusion of shallow, trend-chasing TikTok jokes that clash with the film's more sophisticated character beats.
	Originality	The film blends neon-acid visuals with a surprisingly dense existential exploration of its characters; viewers remain divided on whether this 'accidental soul' justifies the corporate-product aesthetic or makes the film feel tonally inconsistent.

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