The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
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Writer: Stephen Hillenburg
Paul Tibbitt
Sherm Cohen
Aaron Springer
Kent Osborne
Starring: Tom Kenny
Clancy Brown
Rodger Bumpass
Bill Fagerbakke
Doug Lawrence
Jill Talley
Carol Kane
Mary Jo Catlett
Jeffrey Tambor
Alec Baldwin
Scarlett Johansson
David Hasselhoff
Director: Stephen Hillenburg
Music by: Gregor Narholz
Distributor: Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies
Release Date: November 19 2004 (USA)
Runtime: 87 min.
Language: English

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

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MPAA Rating

PG for Some Mild Crude Humor

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Voice actors and their characters

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Genre

Family/Comedy/Animation

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Taglines

  • Tagline 1: A hero will rise. Thanksgiving 2004.
  • Tagline 2: Bigger!... Squarier!... SPONGIER!
  • Tagline 3: Bigger. More Absorbent.
  • Tagline 4: Bigger. Better. More Absorbent.
  • Tagline 5: BIG Action
  • Tagline 6: BIG Drama
  • Tagline 7: BIG Twists
  • Tagline 8: BIG Romance
  • Tagline 9: BIG Evil
  • Tagline 10: Hero. Legend. Sponge.
  • Tagline 11: Sponge Meets World.
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Plot outline

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A bunch of pirates find 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.

Almost immediately afterwards, we see him wake up from his dream.

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, Plankton looks through his evil plans, A through Y, when Karen points out that he hasn't tried Plan Z yet. Excited, Plankton gets things ready.

At the Goofy Goober, 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).

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Meanwhile, Plankton sneaks into King Neptune II's castle and steals his crown. Angered at not having anything to cover his bald spot, Neptune II then discovers a note Plankton planted on the scene framing Mr. Krabs. At the Krusty Krab, Krabs denies his claims up and down. Neptune II isn't fazed when Krabs receives a phone call from a guy in Shell City thanking him for the crown. Spongebob pleads with Neptune II to let him and Patrick find the crown for him. Neptune II agrees and gives the duo six days to find it. 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. 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. Amidst the confusion, Patrick steals the key back, and the duo head off.

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 II, as the Chum Bucket helmets start controlling their wearers.

SpongeBob and Patrick drive through a field of skulls when they encounter a little old lady selling ice cream. However, the old lady is actually the tongue of a giant monster, 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 II's daughter Mindy 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 by giving them seaweed mustaches. Conviced that they're finally men, they jump into the trench and bravely burst right through it. The monsters befriend them because of their manliness.

Dennis, Plankton's hired hitman, 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 known as Shell City. Right across from their fish bowl is King Neptune II's crown. The evil scuba diver (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. As they attack the scuba diver, SpongeBob and Patrick get the crown and make it back to the sea.

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

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SpongeBob and Patrick worry that they won't make it back in time, but are happy to see David Hasselhoff willing to swim them back to Bikini Bottom. However, on the way back, Dennis makes his return. The ultimate battle begins on Hasselhoff's butt. 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 II with a Chum Bucket helmet! 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 II's crown is back, Mr. Krabs is free, Plankton is arrested, SpongeBob and Patrick are men, and SpongeBob finally fulfills his dream as manager of the Krusty Krab 2. Of course, he's blissfully unaware that his manager position is nothing more than a title, as his job is exactly the same as it was before, just with a bigger hat. At that point, the pirates are forced to leave the movie theater.




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Main characters

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Major characters

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Songs

  • SpongeBob SquarePants Theme (Movie Version)
  • The Goofy Goober Song
  • Now That We're Men
  • Now That We're Men (The Last Verse) (not available for the soundtrack)
  • The Goofy Goober Song (Faintly Version) (not available for the soundtrack)
  • Goofy Goober Rock
  • Ocean Man
  • SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy
  • Just a Kid
  • The Best Day Ever
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Box office success

The movie earned $85,416,609 in the United States and $135,311,137 in the entire world as of March 24, 2005.

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Trivia

  • The teaser trailer uses footage from Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, and U-571.
  • This is the second time bad words are used, but this time, they don't sound like rude noises. The first swear word in SpongeBob was used when Mr. Krabs was whispering to SpongeBob at the beginning, it sounded like "jackass" to many people. Paramount edited in DVDs making it sound like "jackwhibble", but the word, "jackass", is still heard in VHS and UMD copies of the movie. Later, King Neptune calls the forged note written by Plankton "damning". This is the only bad word not edited. At the end, during SpongeBob's song, the word "freaking" is used. This bad word was edited as a double "no" in the soundtrack.
  • This is the fourth Nickelodeon animated movie to be rated PG and it's also the first PG-rated Nickelodeon animated movie containing bad words.
  • This is 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 begining of the film, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are seen in the drawing on SpongeBob's wall when SpongeBob realizes that The Krusty Krab 2, where Mr. Krabs hires a manager, which is SpongeBob, will be open.
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World-wide release dates

In Japan, the Japanese release is planned for 2007 because the Japanese version of the TV series aired in 2002.

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See also

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External links

fr:Bob l'éponge (film) nl:The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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