![]() ![]() I was recently reading a book on how to write that had tricks to get your juices flowing, like opening a random book to a random page and picking three random words. Lawrence and sounds like an over-caffeinated Fred Flintstone. The point is that Tom Kenny's SpongeBob voice, which sounds like Pee-wee Herman meets Jerry Lewis on helium, pairs beautifully with the Plankton of an actor who calls himself Mr. They transform into Marvel-like superheroes.īut never mind the plot. Make it stop.ĮDELSTEIN: The two main characters in "SpongeBob: Out Of Water" aren't, as usual, SpongeBob and his buddy, Patrick, but SpongeBob and the arch-villain, Plankton, who's forced to team up despite being so selfish, he can't pronounce the word team. OSOWSKI: (As Plankton) (Screaming) Make it stop, Krabs. KENNY: (As SpongeBob SquarePants) Jimmy back my formula. OSOWSKI: (As Plankton) Well, that's stupid, but how is it torture?īROWN: (As Mr. OSOWSKI: (As Plankton) Knock-knock jokes? I can do this all day, Krabs. LAWRENCE OSOWSKI: (As Plankton) What're you going to do, Krabs, pour hot oil on me or put bamboo shoots under my nails?ĬLANCY BROWN: (As Mr. ![]() TOM KENNY: (As SpongeBob SquarePants) Mr. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER") Krab straps Plankton down, and with SpongeBob watching, uses diabolical means to recover the recipe. ![]() The best thing about this movie is that it can't be explained, though you can hear how high the stakes are when Mr. ![]() Plankton did engineer a scheme involving pickle torpedoes, a giant robot and a Trojan horse-like coin to get into the Krusty Krab's safe - I have a feeling I'm losing you. I know what you're thinking - this has something to do with Plankton, the tiny but very loud owner of the rival, Chum Bucket, restaurant. After dueling with a skeleton and shushing some card-playing seagulls, the pirate reads aloud from that mysterious tome, a story of wholesale destruction, societal collapse, apocalypse, all triggered by the loss of the recipe for the wildly addictive Krabby Patties from the Krusty Krab restaurant where SpongeBob works and his best friend, Patrick, the fat, pink, dimwitted starfish, eats. But wait, here, he's live-action and played by Antonio Banderas, and he's on an "Indiana Jones"-like quest to find a magic book. It begins as all "SpongeBob" episodes do, with a hairy pirate who's there to sing the theme that whisks us to the undersea world of Bikini Bottom, with its ukulele music and flower-cloud backdrops. It's a big, loud, choppy, hit-and-miss, in-your-face, glorious triumph. It's visually an eyesore, a kaleidoscope of bright, mismatched colors and in 3-D, too, to make your headache even stronger. The few song fragments are punishingly discordant. The narrative is slipshod, shambolic, nonsensical. Now comes the second feature, "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water," which looks as if it had a lower budget. What I missed were those free-associational spasms of craziness that make "SpongeBob," at its best, so irrationally entertaining. That story structure was like an anchor weighing it down. "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie," released in 2004, had delightful bits and a killer soundtrack, but it was too smooth, too stately. On TV, the "SpongeBob" cartoons were 11 minutes - the perfect length of time to be bombarded by freeform, surreal gags, interspersed by the high-pitched chortles of their happy-go-lucky sea sponge hero - but a full-length movie? Hillenburg was sure that the same level of intensity over 80 minutes would wear the audience out, that a feature needed a more conventional narrative arc and more even pacing. Film critic David Edelstein plunged in eagerly and has this review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: A decade ago, I got a dream newspaper assignment to fly to LA and talk to Stephen Hillenburg and his colleagues about turning their Nickelodeon smash, "SpongeBob SquarePants," into a feature film. The second, "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water," opens this week. The sea sponge, and his starfish, squid, snail and other friends, have now appeared in over a hundred shorts and two feature films. In 1999, Nickelodeon launched the cartoon series "SpongeBob SquarePants," created by animator and former marine biologist, Stephen Hillenburg. ![]()
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