Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) by Derekscritic — 09 Nov 2018

The last SpongeBob SquarePants film in 2004 was one of the greatest animated films based on a cartoon. However, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is not that great with the marketing being completely mislead.

While the animation looks great, the story was painfully average, the humor was not as funny, and the characters are not at their best. The biggest flaw has to be the misleading marketing because the trailers will make you think that this film is mostly out of the water, but it turns out that they do not come out of the water until the last 20 minutes of the film.

Unfortunately, the live action sequences are not quite as memorable as the 2004 film with SpongeBob and all the other characters being superheroes for most of their screen time outside of the water. Also, the story in the water is not good either and goes nowhere for the characters.

Honestly, I could recommend this film to SpongeBob fans, but the previous film from 2004 was much better. This was a very average film that does not hold up well to the last SpongeBob film.