Their journey not only takes them into the fourth dimension of time and space – cue the laser-spouting dolphin timelord – but into the third dimension, hopping on dry land to hunt down the culprit: a pirate (Antonio Banderas) hoping to open up a food truck with the secret recipe and an old storybook that alters reality all meta-like. While the rest of the town rages into extinction, Plankton reluctantly teams up with his giggly sponge rival to find the formula and clear his name. The big-hearted and cotton candy-brained – literally – SpongeBob, however, believes otherwise. The apocalypse breaks out ("I hope you like leather," quips one character), as well as a corresponding angry mob convinced old nemesis Plankton is behind the thievery. Things are normal down in lovely Bikini Bottom when suddenly the coveted Krabby Patty formula vanishes in a poof, sending SpongeBob’s under-the-sea home over the edge. For adults – especially those in the right, ahem, mindset – it’s freaking inspired.Įven the plot is a burger-related quest akin to an animated, kid-friendly "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" riff. That’s certainly the case with the chatty cleaning device’s delightfully wackadoodle second big screen trip, "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water." How else do you explain a sequence where SpongeBob and Plankton make a time machine from a photo booth in a German taqueria and visit a Pink Floyd-esque triangle in space run by a British dolphin who shoots lasers out its blowhole and watches over Jupiter and Saturn? Children may find that, and the rest of the movie, enjoyably silly. Over the seemingly innocent Nickelodeon cartoon’s 16 years of existence, its blend of childish giddiness, whip-fast references, meta jokes and colorfully kooky non sequiturs has landed alongside Fruit Roll-Ups and naps in the middle section of a Venn diagram of things kids and cannabis users can equally love. Ask a room full of children and a room full of college stoners about their thoughts on SpongeBob SquarePants, and it’d be hard to decide which group would be more excited.
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