The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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 Studios. The Movie was supposed to be released in November 4, 2004.

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 then SpongeBob saved the day. 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' 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 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 a 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 duos 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 mussel inlads (parodying Twisted Sister's song "I Wanna Rock"); using his guitar's powers, SpongeBob destroys the mind-control Bucket heads 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.

Characters

• SpongeBob: A happy yellow sponge who fry cooks at the Krusty Krab and goes to get King Neptune's crown (Main Protagonist).
• Patrick: A happy pink starfish who loves to be friends with SpongeBob (Second main protagonist).
• Squidward: A lazy, grumpy, ugly octopus who orders the food at the Krusty Krab. He has a minor role.
• Mr. Krabs: A greedy but understandable and kind crab who owns the Krusty Krab. He was frozen by King Neptune.
• Sandy: A land squirrel who's friends with SpongeBob. Sandy has a extremely very minor role and her home is not seen.
• Mrs. Puff: A pufferfish who's always losing her temper on SpongeBob. Mrs. Puff has a very minor role.
• Gary: SpongeBob's pet snail. He was controlled by Plankton to rebuild Planktopolis from Bikini Bottom. Gary has a very minor role in this movie.
• Plankton: SpongeBob's arch nemesis. He takes over Bikini Bottom and is the main antagonist and villain of the film.
• Dennis (eliminator): A hitman determined to murder everybody in the sea (The minor antagonist_.
• King Neptune and Mindy: The rulers of the sea. Mindy is kind and not yet the ruler, Neptune is a furious mermaid.

All other characters have been controlled under Plankton's Evil Plan Z and the Buckets Head Control. Pearl Krabs, the huge whale, daughter of Mr. Krabs, has also been controlled by Plankton because she does not appear anymore after she says the word A Goofball? and then the movie will never connect to her again. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy do not appear in the movie, although there is a poster of them in the beginning of SpongeBob's house.

Cast

• Tom Kenny - SpongeBob SquarePants, Gary the Snail, Clay, Tough Fish #2, Twin #2, Houston Voice (voice)
• Bill Fagerbakke - Patrick Star, Fish #2, Chum Customer, Local Fish (voice)
• Dee Bradley Baker - Man Cop, Phil, Perch Perkins, Waiter, Attendant #1, Thug #1, Coughing Fish, Twin #1, Frog Fish Monster, Freed Fish, Sandals (voice)
• Clancy Brown - Eugene H. Krabs (voice)
• Rodger Bumpass - Squidward Tentacles, Fish #4 (voice)
• Carolyn Lawrence - Sandy Cheeks (voice)
• Lori Alan - Pearl Krabs (voice)
• Mary Jo Catlett - Mrs. Puff (voice)
• Mr. Lawrence - Sheldon J. Plankton, Fish #7, Attendant #2, Lloyd (voice)
• Jill Talley - Karen the Computer Wife, Old Lady (voice)
• Scarlett Johansson - Mindy (voice)
• Carlos Alazraqui - Squire, Goofy Gooby Announcer, Thief (voice)
• Sirena Irwin - Reporter, Driver, Ice Cream Lady (voice)
• Joshua Seth - Prisoner (voice)
• Tim Blaney - Singing Goofy Goober (voice)
• Jim Wise - Goofy Gooby Rock Singer (voice)
• Neil Ross - Cyclops Diver (voice)
• Jeffrey Tambor - King Neptune (voice)
• Alec Baldwin - Dennis the Hitman (voice)
• Thomas F. Wilson - Fish #3, Tough Fish, Victor (voice)
• David Hasselhoff - Himself
• Stephen Hillenburg - Parrot (voice)
• Peter DeYoung - Leatherbeard the Pirate
• Maxie J. Santillan Junior - Gummy the Pirate
• Aaron Hendry - Tangles the Pirate, Cyclops Diver
• Gerard Griesbaum - Fingers the Pirate
• Michael Bell - Fisherman
• Paul Zies - Upper Deck the Pirate
• Randolph Jones - Tiny the Pirate
• Todd Duffey - Concession Guy
• Jose Zelaya - Dooby the Pirate
• Mageina Tovah - Usher
• Chris Cummins - Concession Guy
• Alex Baker - Martin the Pirate
• Robin Russell - Sniffy the Pirate
• Tommy Schooler - Salty the Pirate
• Ben Wilson - Stovepipe the Pirate
• Henry Kingi - Inky the Pirate
• Bart McCarthy - Captain Bart the Pirate
• David Stifel - Cookie the Pirate
• Dylan Haggerty - Stitches the Pirate
• Aaron Springer - Laughing Bubble
• Derek Drymon - The Screamer, Fisherman
• Cole S. McKay - Scruffy the Pirate
• D.P. FitzGerald - Bonesy the Pirate
• Kristopher Logan - Squinty the Pirate
• Gino Montesinos - Tango the Pirate
• John Siciliano - Pokey the Pirate

Box Office

The movie was a box-office success. It earned U.S. dollars $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. It's also the most Highest-Grossing Nickelodeon Movie based on a TV series and beat the record of the Rugrats Movie. It is one of the only successful films produced by Nickelodeon Movie Productions and Paramount Pictures.

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, Season Six, and the future Season Seven.
• 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 does not 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 do not 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 appearances 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 was parodied by an Ed, Edd n' Eddy marathon called The Best Day Edder.
• 364 Employee of the Month awards from 1999 is 2030, which means that this movie takes place in March 2030.
• The distance between the two Krusty Krab restaurants keeps changing throughout the movie.
• In the Goofy Goober Nut Bar, the pictures hanging on the wall behind SpongeBob change in every shot.
• SpongeBob puts his shirt and shorts clothing on after his dream, and he is wearing underwear. Then, in front of the mirror, when the back of the shorts falls down, it shows his rear end with no underwear.
• The "Galley Grub" sign in Krusty Krab 2 moves from above the door with a porthole in it, to next to the door with the anchor painted on it, and then totally disappears later.
• After SpongeBob and Patrick receive their "seaweed mustaches" they jump off the edge of the trench. When they figure out that they just jumped off the edge they look down, and directly below, the trench wall is visible with nothing on it. Yet, when they are about to hit the ground there is a branch.
• When SpongeBob wakes up the morning after his ice cream antics at Goofy Goober, there is a table and two chairs by the stage which disappear.
• When SpongeBob and Patrick go to the bar on the way to Shell City, there is a hole in one of the wooden saloon doors which switches to being in the other saloon door when they sneak out.
• Patrick changed his underwear without going to his home.
• Since the movie takes place in 2030, SpongeBob and Patrick are 44 years old (but acts like kids and is even CALLED kids), Mr. Krabs is 88 years old, Squidward is 55 years old, and Pearl is 38 years old.

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 hiatus) 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)
• Germany: December 23, 2007 (Pro7 Premiere)
• New Mexico: May 10, 2008
• Canada: May 23, 2008 (Teletoon premiere)

External links

• Official film website
• Official film website (UK version)