SpongeBob Schwammkopf: Eine schwammtastische Rettung

Well, I did have certain expectations for this one hence the previous sequels. And, sadly, I was right. This is a SpongeBob movie that should've deserved a good plot accompanying the nice animation, but it's just a long, long disappointment.

Recycled jokes, check. Too slow reactions, check. Pointless side quests, check. Pointless cameos, check. Pointless hit music, check. Forcing the story forward without a smooth transition, check. Dragging ending with a weird unfolding, check.

Did not pay money for this, otherwise would want a refund.

The movie was pretty good, really liked. The visual style was lovely and really made up for some of the movie's shortcomings. They really made patrick a good character. He wasn't completely stupid and didn't need to be monitored by Spongebob 24/7.

Spongebob was a great character as well. They let him be angry and not a complete ball of sunshine all the time.

TONS of the jokes landed very well. Their was very few bathroom jokes, zero grossout humor that I can recall, and everybody seemed true to their original personalities (Besides Krabs and Plankton but I'll get to that later)

The lack of quality original songs was kind of disappointing. The songs they created were forgettable and cheesy. There was cameos that I didn't realize were cameos until I was thinking "This feels out of place, should I know this person?"

The Keanu Reeves bush, Sage, was a gag that I thought was funny at first until he became an important part of the story. It was just weird.

(SPOILERS START) The part where Mr. Krabs surrendered the formula to plankton because spongebob was gone for a day or to felt REALLY out of character for both of them. First of all, Krabs said that he gave it to him because "It just isn't the same without Spongebob" isnt canonically correct, as he was running his business years before he hired spongebob. He would never give up the reason behind his success to his mortal enemy just because his employee missed a couple of work days. Then when he gives it to Plankton, rather than being over the moon that his life's work is complete, he feels sad that it was an underwhelming victory. What? 25 years worth of work down the drain just because Krabs was sad? And at the end it feels like they just wanted us to forget that plankton had the formula and they never explained what became of it.

Then near the end when everyone is sharing why Spongebob shouldn't be executed, the flashbacks were only promotion for Kamp Koral. They were canonically incorrect as Spongebob did not conveniently meet all of his adulthood friends at a summer camp.

He met Patrick when he was a baby and met Sandy in Tea at the Treedome. They really threw off what would otherwise be an emotional scene to a boring ad campaign. (SPOILERS END)

Anyways, the movie is certainly worth a watch. The animation looks stunning, the jokes are good, the plot is simply but unwinds well despite the annoying promotions near the end.

This review will be divided into 2 parts with the first part talking a little about the message and the essence of the film and then a more critical part about the technical details. This film shows us a very interesting aspect of SpongeBob that has always been present in the work of Stephen Hillenburg, the fact that SpongeBob is himself and manages to captivate people and change their lives, both characters in the plot and the people who grew up watching the drawing; The film takes this more emotional side and shows how SpongeBob changed the lives of characters all thanks to his charisma, his kindness and his joy. All this positive energy is easily transmitted through the big screen becoming a pleasant film to see. Proving to everyone once again that the happiness and purity of a person who is simply himself can change the world around him.

Going into the technical details we can't help saying that no matter how much the cast tries and the writers try, SpongeBob and the incredible rescue still lacks the charm of the original 2004 film: Recycled jokes, useless side missions, Same goals, overall a lot of recycling of the original film. Although the film has some funny and entertaining moments the plot does not have the same fire and the same originality as the predecessors and this makes the film drag on. The 3D animation is fantastic, innovative, elegant and manages to create an atmosphere that fits perfectly with the theme of the film. SpongeBob and the Incredible Rescue It should have deserved a good plot to accompany its beautiful animation but we received an Incredible animation an incredible lesson and a terrible Rescue 7/10.

I'm a huge fan of 'SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-)'; I absolutely love the first three seasons of the show and the first movie. That's why it's so hard for me to say that 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run (2020)', well, sucks. The movie has maybe one proper laugh in it, with only a few half-chuckles along the way, and its plot feels like a rehash of past narratives that's padded with unnecessary scenes - such as an absolutely pointless, painfully extended stint in live-action land that seems to only have been included so that the director could smoke weed with Snoop Dogg - and often stops dead in its tracks to cram in some continuity-crunching advertisements for the upcoming 'Kamp Koral' spin-off show. It's a huge disappointment, to say the least. Even an extended Keanu Reeves cameo can't elevate the affair - though his appearances are certainly some of the flick's highlights. There are some visually distinct sequences (its 3D animation is generally well-achieved) and, as I mentioned, a few half-chuckles here and there, but the feature just isn't all that enjoyable overall. It also lacks any real messaging or narrative satisfaction. Ultimately, it's a shadow of its former self. The difference in quality between this and the first flick is almost inconceivable. 4/10

Stephen Hillenburg was heavily against a spinoff of any kind. This movie is just an introduction to the spinoff that will be called 'Camp Coral'. While it's not prevelant at first, during the closing scenes it shifts from an animation movie to an ad. Most of the cast will be given a short clip of how they 'met' spongebob through a flashback to the soon to be made spinoff, even though there are entire episodes dedicated on how spongebob meets certain cast members. Continuity has never been a strong suit to the show but downright ignoring all character history is a disgrace.

The movie has some moments that you can enjoy. With my mind on the whole 'camp coral' it did make me laugh less than the average watcher. There isn't enough scenes that are downright funny. And lastly this didn't feel like an actual spongebob movie. This comes closer to a movie like Trolls than Spongebob with how many celebrities they actively show, the songs they sing and the story they tell. They chose popculture over entertainment.