The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water

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This film is so impossibly and incredibly bizarre that I feel the writer's must have been high during scripting. I would give The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water a 4/10.

This film has an animation style that is very classic to the cartoon which is good to see, there are a few minor discrepancies but nothing I'd complain about. The editing also moves well, giving a sense of flow to the shooting of scenes.

Tom Kenny, who voiced Spongebob, is really a fantastic voice actor; the amount of work he does into keeping a character feel so timeless is great to watch.

However the best performance of the film really came from Mr Lawrence, who voiced Plankton. Frankly this was plankton's film; he had about as much screen time as Spongebob did as well as the best story arc. His character development was really great to see and the voicework still feels classic and fresh with this role.

Despite this the film suffered greatly from a film that lacked direction; the plot was all over the place. In fact the lack of good comedy and understandable plot really made this feel like a disgrace to a classic children's cartoon. The pacing on this was quite poor and wasn't helped by the constant addition of plot points that made very little sense. The music that accompanied this film was very basic and frankly very annoying; the time travel song felt like it was from a straight to dvd comedy film and the concluding rap battle was incredibly out of place.

Antonio Banderas, who played Burger Beard, was shocking in this film; he really didn't put much effort into taking the film seriously and his performance was very artificial. Bill Fagerbakke, who voiced Patrick, has become quite a tired performance; his comedy very repetitive and tired to listen to. Rodger Bumpass, who voiced Squidward, was sidelined as a background performance; he felt no different than all the other minor voice actors. Clancy Brown, who voiced Mr Krabs, is much like Fagerbakke in that his performance has gotten old; his character remained two dimensional the entire time and I found little interest in him. Carolyn Lawrence, who voiced Sandy, was really weird in this film; the character was nothing but peculiar and her personality seemed to vary in a way that made her character confusing to watch.