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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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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 June 13, 2001. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain and Netherlands by Universal Studios.

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Plot

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 amidst chaos, Mr. Krabs, the boss of popular fast food restaurant the Krusty Krab, has a problem: a customer who ordered a Krabby Patty got it without cheese. Suddenly, SpongeBob SquarePants, the manager, comes to the rescue. With his briefcase full of James Bond-like gear, he takes out a piece of cheese, slowly puts the cheese in the Krabby Patty. and the day is saved. The whole scene reveals itself to be SpongeBob's dream. Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs is preparing the grand opening of the Krusty Krab 2, which is an exact replica of the original. Hoping to become the new manager is SpongeBob, the Krusty Krab's head cook.

Plankton, arch-nemesis and business rival of Mr. Krabs, who constantly wants to steal Mr. Krabs's formula to the Krabby Patty, is planning his ultimate final plot, the dreaded Plan Z. At the opening of the Krusty Krab 2, SpongeBob's lazy coworker, Squidward, is given the manager title instead, as Mr. Krabs tells a heartbroken SpongeBob that he is too immature and childlike to handle the task. Meanwhile, Plankton arrives at the castle of King Neptune, who is prevented from declaring a ridiculous prison sentence by his intelligent teenage daughter Mindy. Neptune, who is balding, is then horrified to discover that his crown is missing, having been stolen by Plankton.

SpongeBob arrives at Goofy Goober's, 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 morning afterwards. Meanwhile, Neptune arrives at the Krusty Krab after receiving false evidence of Mr. Krabs stealing his crown. SpongeBob arrives and insults Mr. Krabs out of spite, but then decides to try to save him from being executed. He and Patrick agree to travel to the dreaded Shell City, where Mr. Krabs has allegedly sold the crown, and return with it. Before departing, Mr. Krabs is frozen solid and Mindy, who Patrick develops a crush on, gives the duo a magical bag of winds to return home with. This is an reference to the Odyssey.

With six days to retrieve the crown, SpongeBob and Patrick's hamburger-like vehicle, the Patty Wagon, is stolen by a gangster. Later, they find it parked at the Thug Tug, a bar for tough, muscular fish. Unable to obtain the car's key, they begin to blow bubbles, which is a sign of weakness by the rules of the gang. A fistfight as to who blew the bubbles results, allowing them to steal the key amidst the confusion and depart. The following day, 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 are then chased by a large sea monster, ultimately ending in the death of the monster and the loss of their car. Unable to pass through a monster-filled trench, SpongeBob gives up and accepts the fact that he and Patrick are just children. 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, 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, who takes SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface.

He takes them to Shell City, which is revealed to be a gift shop that sells novelties made out of dried sea creatures. SpongeBob and Patrick discover the fish within the shop, but are completely dried up by being placed under a heat lamp to dry. However, their tears electrocute a wire and cause the sprinkler system to activate, reviving them and all the other sea creatures, who lead an assault against the diver. The duo take the crown and flee, but Patrick ends up using the bag of winds the wrong way, losing it. However, David Hasselhoff arrives and takes them across the ocean at a jet's speed.

Dennis arrives, however, and attempts to crush SpongeBob and Patrick with his boot, but is hit by an oncoming boat. As the duo arrive over Bikini Bottom, King Neptune is about to execute Mr. Krabs, but is stalled by Mindy. Hasselhoff opens his pectoral muscles and shoots the duo into Bikini Bottom, where Krabs is saved and Hasselhoff is burned by Neptune's trident. However, Plankton's hypnotized minions attack the heroes, and SpongeBob makes a speech about maturity before breaking out into a bizarre rock song out of the massel inlads (parodying Twisted Sister's song "I Wanna Rock"); using his guitar's powers, SpongeBob destroys the mind-control buckets and frees the citizens from Plankton's rule, who is then sent to jail.

In the aftermath, Neptune reaches an understanding not only with Mr. Krabs but also with his daughter, and then thanks SpongeBob and Patrick. Finally, Squidward gives SpongeBob the title of manager, much to his delight.

Cast

Box Office

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.

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 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

Trivia

  • "Goofy Goober Rock" is a re-work of "I Wanna Rock" by rock band Twisted Sister.
  • The film takes place after the series, even though it was created before Season Four, Season Five, and the future Season Six.
  • The song sung by SpongeBob in "Best Day Ever" was sung in the last song of the end credits, by SpongeBob. It is also sung, again by SpongeBob, in the episode titled Best Day Ever at the beginning and towards the end of the episode
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick are at Shell City and the sprinklers go off, there is a puffer fish. It could possibly be Mr. Puff, Mrs. Puff's husband.
  • In the bar scene at Goofy Goober's, a cartoon of Ignatz beaning Krazy Kat in the head with a brick can be seen hanging on a wall in the background.
  • The band Motörhead contributed the song "You Better Swim" to the soundtrack, which is "You Better Run" with 'sponged-up' lyrics.
  • The tune to "Now That We're Men" can be heard throughout the episode "The Great Snail Race".
  • This film was rated PG by the MPAA for some mild crude humor, for the fact that Patrick's bare butt is seen (with a flag in it) using his pants as a parachute, and Patrick is seen without pants on, and Mr. Krabs is audible in whispering "jackass" to Spongebob.
  • At the end, SpongeBob says Squidward's fly is down. Squidward dosen't wear pants.
  • 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.
  • Most of SpongeBob's friends don't have a large role. Gary, Mrs. Puff, Larry the Lobster, and Sandy the Squirrel were brainwashed for a majority of the film and had one line each. Mr. Krabs was frozen for most of the movie, and Squidward had few lines and was much less pessimistic than he was in the series, seemingly taking on a new personality for the film. Also, in an interview, the film mentioned to have Sandy, but she only made two appearences and only one line. Originally, there was a scene that involved Sandy (as a real squirrel) meeting SpongeBob and Patrick on land, but it was scrapped from the film. It can be seen (storyboard-animated) on the DVD of the film as a deleted scene.
  • The Replica HMS Bounty was used in the opening sequence in which the pirates were singing the Spongebob Squarepants theme song.
  • The Best Day Ever marathon parodied by an Ed Edd n Eddy marathon called The Best Day Edder.

Continuity Errors

  • The film 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 is not 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. A similar error occurs the next day, when SpongeBob says, again, that it is 8 o'clock, and then, at about the same time, Mr. Krabs claims that it is lunch time.
  • In the film, King Neptune looks utterly different than he used to be in Neptune's Spatula. (The character is also played by a different actor - John O'Hurley played Neptune on the TV series in his one and only appearance.) The reason why was revealed in Krusty Towers. The Neptune Family Heirs, so this is probably the son of Neptune in Neptune's Spatula or rather that Neptune was portrayed and drawn in a different light, even retconned into a king.
  • It is possible that the film 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 film, he is putting his final plan into play. It has been confirmed by Stephen Hillenburg this was actually the series finale, despite the fact it was released before seasons 4-6. This is likely due to the fact that the show's future was unclear at the time (the movie airing just before the two year hiatius) and so it seemed likely the show was cancelled.

Worldwide release dates

  • United States: November 19, 2004
  • Canada: November 19, 2004
  • Mexico: December 3, 2004
  • Chile: December 16, 2004
  • Germany: December 23, 2004
  • Austria: 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
  • Greece: September 16, 2005
  • Italy: September 23, 2005
  • Japan: April 22, 2006
  • United States: November 10, 2006 (Nickelodeon Premiere)
  • Canada: May 21, 2007 (YTV premiere)
  • United States: June 15, 2007 (Nickelodeon Movie Summer Premiere)

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