The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Movie Review
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is a 2015 animated comedy film directed by Paul Tibbitt. It is the second film in the SpongeBob movie franchise.
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“Alright, all secondary characters, come with me“
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The plot follows SpongeBob and his friends who team up in order to retrieve the formula of their favorite meal. The film is split into first two thirds which are animated and the final act which is live-action. I liked the animated part somewhat better not only because it has better humor but also because the third act is overstuffed with action and the superhero element to it is such an obvious move from the franchise to get on the superhero bandwagon as it is extremely popular nowadays. Still, even that part was solid and just silly enough with the naming of the their superhero alter egos.
The characters here are as well developed as in the TV show and better than in their last feature adventure. SpongeBob is okay here, but far from great. Patrick is of course as dumb as always and Mr. Krabs as obsessed with money as ever before and although he somehow did not get much attention, he was still good in those sequences he was in. Squidward has his very memorable moments, but the emphasis is not on him which is a shame as he is my favorite character.
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As for Plankton, he is stupendous here and his relationship with SpongeBob is definitely the highlight of the whole movie because they took some departure from his usual character, portraying him in a more positive light, while still concluding his arc as the villain. Sandy on land was a lot of fun. However, Burger-Beard the Pirate is very annoying, a very typical and weak character and he is quite frustrating throughout the whole running time mainly because the performance from Antonio Banderas is too goofy and not the greatest. He is also too similar to Jack Sparrow, he’s probably the worst aspect of the picture and he gave the worst performance in a film which has quite solid acting from the others as expected.
The animation is quite good and I appreciate the fact that more than half of the film is done in traditional animation instead of computer generated imagery. But those sequences in the final act are done in CGI and it is not particularly good, it is very unlikable and not pleasing to the eye, but I guess they have done the best they can with not easy to animate aquatic characters. But I wish the whole movie were just hand-drawn animated, but that is sadly hard to get these days.
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The movie has too much action and it gets immensely and sometimes overwhelmingly fast-paced, which shows that it is intended for smaller children. Still, there are parts of this movie that are clearly intended for the adult audiences such as Patrick and SpongeBob getting high on sugar in what was a truly bizarre, unforgettable scene, and of course the whole cosmic part with that dolphin ruler was absolutely insane how crazy and trippy it was.
