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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
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| The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | |
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 Teaser poster of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie |
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| Directed by | Stephen Hillenburg |
| Produced by | Derek Drymon Albie Hecht Stephen Hillenburg Julia Pistor Gina Shay |
| Written by | Stephen Hillenburg Derek Drymon Tim Hill Kent Osborne Aaron Springer Paul Tibbitt |
| Starring | Tom Kenny Clancy Brown Rodger Bumpass Bill Fagerbakke Scarlett Johansson Doug Lawrence Jeffrey Tambor David Hasselhoff Alec Baldwin |
| Music by | Gregor Narholz |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures United International Pictures Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 19, 2004 March 1, 2005 (DVD) |
| IMDb profile | |
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a feature film based on Nickelodeon's hit TV show SpongeBob SquarePants. The film was released in the United States on November 19, 2004. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain, and Netherlands by Universal Pictures.
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The film begins with a live action credit sequence, in which a group of pirates retrieve tickets to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. The film then cuts to Bikini Bottom, where Mr. Krabs, the owner of popular fast food restaurant, the Krusty Krab, has a problem: a customer ordered a Krabby Patty with cheese and there was no cheese. Suddenly, SpongeBob SquarePants comes to the rescue. He has a brief chat with the customer, and with his briefcase full of gadgets, he takes out a pair of pliers and adds cheese, and the crisis is resolved. The whole scene reveals itself to be SpongeBob's dream.
Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs is preparing to celebrate the grand opening of the "Krusty Krab 2", a second filiale of his restaurant. Hoping to become the new manager of the Krusty Krab 2, SpongeBob is completely convinced his name will be announced, since he had already been "Employee of the Month" 374 consecutive times.
Meanwhile, Plankton - arch-nemesis and business rival of Mr. Krabs who constantly wants to steal Mr. Krabs' formula of the Krabby Patty, is planning his ultimate plot - the dreaded Plan Z. At the celebration, SpongeBob's co-worker, Squidward, is given the manager title, as Mr. Krabs tells a heartbroken SpongeBob that he is just a kid and is unable to handle the task.
Meanwhile, Plankton arrives at the castle of King Neptune, who is prevented from declaring a ridiculous prison sentence to his intelligent teenage daughter, Princess Mindy. Neptune is then horrified to discover that his crown is missing, having been stolen by Plankton.
SpongeBob arrives at Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat, a popular children's restaurant, to brood over his loss. His best friend Patrick arrives and joins him in a Triple Gooberberry Sunrise ice cream-eating spree, and SpongeBob experiences hangover-like symptoms the next morning. Meanwhile, Neptune arrives at the Krusty Krab after receiving false evidence that Mr. Krabs had stolen his crown and sent it to the dreaded Shell City. Krabs pleads innocent, and Neptune asks the crowd of onlookers if Krabs has a thieving nature. SpongeBob then arrives and insults Mr. Krabs out of spite, but after hearing the prospect of Mr. Krabs being executed, he and Patrick agree to travel to Shell City (where Mr. Krabs has allegedly sold the crown) and return with it. Before departing, Mr. Krabs is frozen by Neptune's trident, and Mindy warns the duo about the giant Cyclops guarding Shell City. She also gives Spongebob and Patrick a magical bag of winds to return home with (a reference to the Odyssey).
With six days to retrieve the crown, SpongeBob and Patrick travel to a gas station next to the county line. There, their hamburger-like vehicle, the Patty Wagon, is quickly stolen by a mobster. One long walk later, they find it parked at the Tug Thug, a bar for tough, muscular fish. After a failed attempt to obtain the car's key, they begin to blow bubbles in the bar bathroom, which is a sign of weakness by the rules of the bar. A fin-fight as to who blew the bubbles results, allowing them to steal the key amidst the confusion and escape.
The following day, Squidward finds out about Plankton's plan and begins to tell on him by talking to King Neptune. Plankton begins controlling the minds of the townspeople through electronic bucket-shaped hats, disguised as free souvenir hats, ultimately taking over Bikini Bottom and re-naming it "Planktopolis." He also sends Dennis, a motorcycle-riding hitman, to eliminate SpongeBob and Patrick.
SpongeBob and Patrick then narrowly avoid a frog fish, which lures them in with a fake ice-cream stand. Arriving at a monster-filled trench, though, SpongeBob gives up and accepts that he and Patrick are "just kids". However, Mindy arrives and gives them fake mustaches in the form of seaweed, convincing them that they are now men. They pass through the trench without fear (singing "Now That We're Men"), but are greeted on the other side by Dennis. He reveals that they are not really men before being stepped on by a human scuba diver (the Cyclops), who takes SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface.
He takes them to Shell City, which is revealed to be a gift shop that sells fish-made knick-knacks. SpongeBob and Patrick are put through a lethal drying-out process, but before dying, they realize that they made it to the crown after all, and shed two tears of joy. Their tears short-circuit a wire and cause the sprinkler system to activate, reviving them and all of the fish-made knick-knacks, who lead an assault against the Cyclops. The duo takes the crown and flee, but Patrick, opening the bag of winds, doesn't hold tight enough, losing it. However, David Hasselhoff arrives and takes them across the ocean at a jet's speed.
Dennis arrives, however, and almost defeats Patrick and Spongebob before being hit by an upcoming catamaran. As the two arrives over Bikini Bottom, Hasselhoff opens his pectoral muscles and shoots the heroes into Bikini Bottom, deflecting Neptune's execution beam with the crown in the knick of time (though burning Hasselhoff in the process). However, Plankton's hypnotized minions attack the heroes, and SpongeBob makes a speech about maturity before breaking out into a bizarre rock version of the Goofy Goober theme song (spoofing Twisted Sister's song "I Wanna Rock"). Using "the sheer power of rock," SpongeBob destroys the mind-control buckets and frees the citizens from Plankton's rule.
In the aftermath, Plankton is sent to jail, and Neptune reaches an understanding with his daughter. He unfreezes Mr. Krabs, noting how he should be honored to have "a brave, courageous, and heroic young man" like Spongebob. Realizing this, Mr. Krabs admits his past mistake and gives SpongeBob the managerial position, who proclaims it to be "the greatest day of [his] life."
During the end credits, pictures are shown of SpongeBob's job as manager, who is seen happily mopping the floors, taking out the trash, sweeping the chimney, and getting a raise from Mr. Krabs (consisting of a single coin). Following the credits, a theater usher forces the pirates to leave.
- Day One: SpongeBob and Patrick leave Bikini Bottom to get to Shell City to retrieve the crown, however the patty wagon is quickly stolen.
- Day Two: Before sunrise of the second day, SpongeBob and Patrick make it to the Thug Tug, where they see the patty wagon parked. They go inside the Thug Tug and just barely retrieve the key.
- Day Three: Squidward has found out about Planktons plans and goes to the Chum Bucket to see that Plankton has stolen the krabby patty formula. Before he can tell anyone, Plankton uses his mind control on the customers and they seize Squidward. Plankton soon takes over Bikini Bottom.
- Day Four: SpongeBob and Patrick just barely escape the giant frog fish after it falls into a trench. Realizing that they will not be able to get through the trench. However Mindy arrives and encourages them by giving them [fake] mustaches. They now feel like men and breeze through the trench, singing all the way. Even the monsters of the trench sing along.
- Day Five: SpongeBob and Patrick have made it out of the trench, and quickly run into Dennis, a hit man hired by Plankton. Before he can step on them with his giant boot, the cyclops stomps on Dennis and carries SpongeBob and Patrick away.
- Day Six: Early on the morning of the final day, SpongeBob and Patrick wake up on dry land, in a fish aquarium. The cyclops puts them under a lamp to dry them. After losing hope, they see that this is Shell City and manage to recover the crown, getting to the shoreline afterwards. With Hasselhoffs help, they are able to get across the sea quickly. Dennis returns and tries to kill them, but gets hit by a boat. Hasselhoff then launches them down to Bikini Bottom using his chest muscles, with the crown.
- Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gary the Snail, Clay, Tough Fish #2, Twin #2, Houston Voice (voice)
- Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, Fish #2, Chum Customer, Local Fish (voice)
- Dee Bradley Baker as Man Cop, Phil, Perch Perkins, Waiter, Attendant #1, Thug #1, Coughing Fish, Twin #1, Frog Fish Monster, Freed Fish, Sandals (voice)
- Clancy Brown as Eugene H. Krabs (voice)
- Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles, Fish #4 (voice)
- Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks (voice)
- Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs (voice)
- Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff (voice)
- Doug Lawrence as Sheldon J. Plankton, Fish #7, Attendant #2, Lloyd (voice)
- Jill Talley as Karen the Computer Wife, Old Lady (voice)
- Jeffrey Tambor as King Neptune (voice)
- Scarlett Johansson as Princess Mindy (voice)
- Alec Baldwin as Dennis the Hitman (voice)
- Thomas F. Wilson as Fish #3, Tough Fish, Victor (voice)
- David Hasselhoff as Himself
The movie was a box-office success. It earned $85,417,988 in the United States and $140,161,792 worldwide as of June 18, 2006. It has, as of June 17, 2007, a 70% Critics Tomatometer rating and a 77% Cream of the Crop rating on rottentomatoes.com.
| # | Song Title | Performer |
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| 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 and the Hi-Seas |
| 8 | "They'll Soon Discover" | The Shins |
| 9 | "Ocean Man" | 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" | Motörhead |
| 14 | "The Jellyfish Song" | The Jellyfish Band, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box Featuring SpongeBob |
| 15 | "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song (Movie Version)" | The Pirates |
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- The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie website was hacked around the time the movie was released into theatres. If one explores Bikini Bottom on the main page, the ghostly letters "SB" appear in the bottom-left corner. If one clicks them, it takes them to the SpongeBlogger fansite, www.spongeblogger.com. The creator got into large amounts of trouble from hacking the website, but was forgiven seeing as he had done no serious harm. The link, however, was never removed and still remains there.
- This film was originally planned to serve as the series finale of SpongeBob SquarePants, but in 2005, an unannounced Season 4 was produced due to the film.[citation needed]
- The Replica HMS Bounty was used in the opening sequence in which the pirates are singing the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song.
- The line when Patrick asks Mindy "Did you see my underwear?", and responds to her "Did you want to?" it is a reference to the quote from A Night at the Roxbury (which had the same response): "Did you grab my ass?"
- Most of SpongeBob's friends didn't have major roles: Sandy Cheeks, Gary the Snail, and Mrs. Puff all had appearances but had very small roles and very little lines. Mr. Krabs was frozen for most of the film. Originally there was supposed to be a scene in the film including Sandy, but was cut for time. However it is included as a deleted scene on the DVD.
- In the SpongeBob episode Neptune's Spatula, King Neptune is displayed as a completely different character compared to the King Neptune of the film(though given the time span he could easily be the other's son).
- Right when he starts singing "Goofy Goober Rock", SpongeBob causes Plankton to be hurled into a nearby wall. This is a reference to the music video for Twisted Sister's song "I Wanna Rock" (which "Goofy Goober Rock" is a parody of).
- Uncensored, this was the first time profanity is specifically stated on SpongeBob. The word damning is said by Neptune, and the word jackass is whispered to Spongebob by Mr. Krabs. During the "Goofy Goober Rock" scene, Spongebob also says freaking.
- United States: November 19, 2004
- Canada: November 19, 2004
- Mexico: December 3, 2004
- Chile: December 16, 2004
- Germany: December 23, 2004
- Switzerland: December 23, 2004
- Brazil: December 17, 2004
- Venezuela: December 25, 2004
- Colombia: January 1, 2005
- Australia: January 6, 2005
- New Zealand: January 6, 2005
- Argentina: January 6, 2005
- Central America: January 7, 2005
- Peru: January 13, 2005
- Spain: January 28, 2005
- Belgium: February 2, 2005
- Netherlands: February 3, 2005
- France: February 9, 2005
- United Kingdom: February 11 2005
- Ireland: February 11, 2005
- United States: March 1, 2005 (DVD release)
- Austria: March 11, 2005
- Turkey: March 13, 2005
- Russia: March 17, 2005
- Singapore: March 17, 2005
- Czech Republic: March 17, 2005
- Philippines: April 6, 2005
- South Africa: April 8, 2005
- Indonesia: April 16, 2005
- Denmark: June 10, 2005
- Norway: June 17, 2005
- Sweden: June 26, 2005
- Finland: August 19, 2005
- Greece: September 16, 2005
- Italy: September 23, 2005
- South Korea: September 30, 2005
- Japan: April 22, 2006
- United States: November 10, 2006 (Nickelodeon Best Day Ever Premiere)
- Canada: May 21, 2007 (YTV premiere)
- United States: June 15, 2007 (Nickelodeon Movie Summer Premiere)
- United States: November 12, 2007 (Atlantis Squarepantis Day Premiere)
- United States: November 25, 2007 (Superstuffed Nicktoons Weekend Premiere)
- Official film website
- Official film website (UK version)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie at the Internet Movie Database
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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