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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Promotional poster of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

IMDb Page (external link)

Writer: Stephen Hillenburg
Paul Tibbitt
Sherm Cohen
Aaron Springer
Kent Osborne
Starring: Tom Kenny
Clancy Brown
Rodger Bumpass
Bill Fagerbakke
Doug Lawrence
Jeffrey Tambor
Alec Baldwin
Scarlett Johansson
David Hasselhoff
Director: Stephen Hillenburg
Music by: Gregor Narholz
Distributor: Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies
Release Date: November 19 2004 (USA)
Runtime: 87 min.
Language: English

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is the first film based on Nickelodeon's hit TV show SpongeBob SquarePants. The movie was released in theaters on November 19, 2004.

MPAA Rating

PG for Some Mild Crude Humor

Voice actors and their characters

Genre

Family/Comedy/Animation

Taglines

  • Tagline 1: A hero will rise. Thanksgiving 2004.
  • Tagline 2: Bigger!... Squarier!... SPONGIER!
  • Tagline 3: Bigger. More Absorbent.
  • Tagline 4: Bigger. Better. More Absorbent.
  • Tagline 5: BIG Action
  • Tagline 6: BIG Drama
  • Tagline 7: BIG Twists
  • Tagline 8: BIG Romance
  • Tagline 9: BIG Evil
  • Tagline 10: Hero. Legend. Sponge.
  • Tagline 11: Sponge Meets World.

Plot outline

Brief Summary: Plankton has stolen King Neptune's crown. SpongeBob and Patrick must brave the mysterious town of Shell City to find it. Plankton, meanwhile, has gotten control of Krab's secret formula. His restaurant, The Chum Bucket, finally becomes popular. With each meal, Plankton hands out a free bucket hat. These bucket hats are really mind control devices and Plankton takes control of Bikini Bottom while Neptune mourns his lost crown.

Time/Date:

Time cards shown:

  • Meanwhile

Main character(s):

Major character(s):

Minor character(s):

  • Bart the Pirate
  • All pirates who watch the movie
  • Parrot

Missing character(s):

Songs:

  • SpongeBob SquarePants Theme (Movie Version)
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
SpongeBob SquarePants
If nautical nonsense be something you wish
SpongeBob SquarePants
Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
Spo-ongeBo-ob Squa-arePa-ants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
Spo-ongeBo-ob Squa-arePa-ants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
Spo-ongeBo-ob Squa-arePa-ants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpooooooooooongeBob SquarePaaaaaaaaaaaaants!
  • The Goofy Goober Song
Oh, I'm a goofy goober, yeah
You're a goofy goober, yeah
We're all goofy goobers, yeah
Goofy goofy goober goober, yeah!
  • Now That We're Men
Now that we’re men, we can do anything
Now that we’re men, we are invincible
Now that we’re men, we’ll go to Shell City
Get the crown, save the town and Mr. Krabs
Now that we’re men, we have facial hair
Now that we’re men, I change my underwear
Now that we’re men, we got a manly flair
We got the stuff, we’re tough enough to save the day
We never had a chance when we were kids
No, no, no!
But take a look at what the mermaid did
Ha, ha, ha!
Patrick, time for some slappy (not said in the movie)
(the two begin to do a slap-off, where they slap different parts of their body rhythmically)
Uh-huh.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, go, SpongeBob.
Ah.
Horray!
Now that they’re men, we can’t bother them
Now that they’re men, they have become our friends
Now that they’re men, they’ll be a happy end
They’ll pass the test and finish the quest for the crown
They’ll pass the test, and finish the quest
They’ll pass the test and finish the quest for the crown.
  • Now That We're Men (The Last Verse) (not avalible for the soundtrack)
Well, Patrick, we should be there in one more verse.
Now that we’re men- (cut off by Dennis the Hitman)
  • The Goofy Goober Song (Faintly Version) (not avalible for the soundtrack)
I'm a goofy goober, yeah
You're a goofy goober, yeah
We're all goofy goobers, yeah
Goofy goofy goober goober... yeah
  • Goofy Goober Rock
I'm goofy goober! Rock!
You're a goofy goober! Rock!
We're all goofy goobers! Rock!
Goofy goofy, goober goober! Rock!
Put your toys away
Well all I gotta say
When you tell me not to play
I say no way! No way!
No no freaking way!/No no no no way!
I'm a kid you say
When you say I'm a kid, I say "Say it again!"
And then I say thanks! Thanks!
Thank you very much!
So if you're thinking that
You'd like to be like me
Go ahead and try
The kid inside will set you free!
Hamala, baby-la, zeebilay, boopilay (skipped in the soundtrack)
Hamala, baby-la, zeebilay, bop (skipped in the soundtrack)
I'm goofy goober! Rock!
You're a goofy goober! Rock!
We're all goofy goobers, Rock!
Goofy goofy, goober goober, yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
  • Ocean Man
Ocean man, take me by the hand
Lead me to the land
That you understand
Ocean man, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip
Ocean man, the crust of a tan man embibed by the sand
Soaking up the thirst of the land
Ocean man, can you see through wonder of amazent at the oberman?
Ocean man, the crust is elusive when it casts forth to the childlike man
Ocean man, the sequence of a life from braised in the sand
Soaking up the thrist of the land
(Guitar solo, repeat lyrics once, then "Ocean man" at the end)
  • SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy
Parick, you see, I'm growing a mustache
And though I know I must ask you
Does it really make me look like a man?
SpongeBob, being a manager's a tough job
I hope your picked to be the best SpongeBoss they've had
Working like a dog at the Krusty Krab
Now wait a minute
I think we hit a wall
I think we hit a psychic wall
Maybe we're just young
And we won't know until we're old
We're too young
To free ourselves from this lonely fishbowl
Some kind of wall
Some kind of psychic wall
Some kind of wall
Some kind of psychic wall
We can't get above
So come on, let's find a way to be happy
Not like Plankton, he'll never be satisfied
Always complaining about his life
To his computer wife
You think he would have found by now
To be thought of as a king
He don't need a crown
  • Just a Kid
Maybe I'm just a kid
Maybe I just don't fit in
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready
I'm ready fto go now
I don't wanna go to school
But I don't get to make the rules
Too weary, too weary, too weary
Too weary of the morning
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to do somethin' they don't wanna do
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to do something...why's that true?
Maybe I'm not so big
Maybe I just don't fit in
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready
I'm ready for more now
I don't wanna go to bed
So much goin' on in my head
And I'm tired, and I'm tired, and I'm tired
I'm tired of that now
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to do somethin' they don't wanna do
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to do somethin'...why's that true?
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Has to do somethin'...just have some fun
(Kids "na" for a small while in background)
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everyone, someone, anyone
Has to grow up and have some fun
  • The Best Day Ever
Mr. Sun came up and he smiled at me
Said "It's gonna be a good one, just wait and see"
Jumped out of bed and I ran outside
Feeling so ecstatic and satisfied
It's the best day ever (best day ever)
It's the best day ever (best day ever)
I'm so busy, got nothin' to do (skipped in the movie)
Spent the last two hours just tiein' my shoe (skipped in the movie)
Every flower, every grain of sand (skipped in the movie)
Is reaching out to shake my hand (skipped in the movie)
It's the best day ever (best day ever) (skipped in the movie)
It's the best day ever (best day ever) (skipped in the movie)
Sometimes the little things start closing in on me
When I'm feeling down
I gotta loose that frown
I stick my head out the window and I look around
Those clouds don't scare me: they can't disguise
This magic that's happening right before my eyes
Soon Mr. Moon will be shining bright
So the best day ever can last all night
Yeah, the best day ever's gonna last all night now
It's the best day ever (best day ever)
It's the best day ever (best day ever)
It's the best day ever (best day ever)
It's the best day ever (best day ever, best day ever, best day ever)

Template:Spoiler

A bunch of pirates find tickets to the Spongebob Squarepants Movie. After singing the theme song in a sea shanty, they plow into the theater just as the movie begins.

SpongeBob, new manager of the Krusty Krab, confronts a dire situation: a customer ordered a Krabby Patty with cheese, but didn't get his cheese.

Almost immediately afterwards, we see him wake up from his dream.

SpongeBob runs to the Krusty Krab, sure that he'll be the one Mr. Krabs chooses as manager of the "Krusty Krab 2"; Krabs has opened a second Krusty Krab right next to the first one so he could get more money. A crowd has gathered, ready to learn the name of the manager. SpongeBob is sure he'll win the position, but his dreams are quickly shattered when Mr. Krabs announces Squidward as the new manager. Apparently, SpongeBob isn't mature enough to handle the great responsibility. Heartbroken, he sadly walks into the sunset.

Meanwhile, Plankton looks through his evil plans, A through Y, when Karen points out that he hasn't tried Plan Z yet. Excited, Plankton gets things ready.

At the Goofy Goober, SpongeBob and Patrick's new favorite undersea hangout, Spongebob sulks at the nut bar with Patrick. The duo drowns their sorrows in ice cream and get completely "drunk".

Meanwhile, Plankton sneaks into King Neptune's castle and steals his crown. Angered at not having anything to cover his bald spot, Neptune then discovers a note Plankton planted on the scene framing Mr. Krabs. At the Krusty Krab, Krabs denies his claims up and down. Neptune isn't fazed when Krabs receives a phone call from a guy in Shell City thanking him for the crown. Spongebob pleads with Neptune to let him and Patrick find the crown for him. Neptune agrees and gives the duo six days to find it. Spongebob and Patrick bust out the Patty Wagon, a new Krusty Krab promotional vehicle, and head out on the open road.

At the county line, they run into a couple of hillbilly fish, who warn them not to go past the line. Of course, they don't listen, and quickly get their ride stolen by a thug. After a day of walking, they find their car at the Thug Tug, a rough and tough joint. Unable to get the key off the fish that stole it, they head to the bathroom and have a random bubble party. Apparently the tough fish find bubbles to be for little kids, and the manager demands to know who blew the bubble. The test: play the Goofy Goober theme song, and whoever can't resist singing it will be the culprit. SpongeBob and Patrick struggle not to sing along, and breathe a collective sigh of relief when another tough fish sings the song. Amidst the confusion, Patrick steals the key back, and the duo head off.

Back in Bikini Bottom, Plankton steals the Krabby Patty secret formula and starts churning out patties at the Chum Bucket. People are loving it, of course, eating their Krabby Patties and wearing their new Chum Bucket helmets. Squidward knows something is up, but has no time to snitch to Neptune, as the Chum Bucket helmets start controlling their wearers.

SpongeBob and Patrick drive through a field of skulls when they encounter a little old lady selling ice cream. However, the old lady is actually the tongue of a giant monster, who chases the duo until it is eaten by a bigger monster in a monster-filled trench. Stuck with no way to get over the trench, SpongeBob and Patrick break down, realizing they really are just kids. Neptune's daughter Mindy shows up to help the kids regain their confidence by showing them the fate of the Bikini Bottomers, nothing but slaves to Plankton, and uses her "mermaid magic" to turn the duo into men by giving them seaweed mustaches. Conviced that they're finally men, they jump into the trench and bravely burst right through it. The monsters befriend them because of their manliness.

Dennis, Plankton's hired hitman, suddenly appears, ready to exterminate SpongeBob and Patrick. However, a scuba diver squishes Dennis and abducts the duo. When they wake up, they find themselves at a gift shop known as Shell City. Right across from their fish bowl is King Neptune's crown. The evil scuba diver (Cyclops) sets them on a table to dry them out. They realize that the gift shop is, in fact, Shell City, and "die" happily, singing the Goofy Goober Song. Back in the theater, the pirates mourn the loss of Spongebob and Patrick, when a parrot advises them to continue watching the film. The duo's tears land on the plug, short circuiting the lamp. The smoke causes the fire sprinkler system to activate, bringing all of the gift shop items to life. Including, for some reason, a Mariachi Band. As they attack the scuba diver, SpongeBob and Patrick get the crown and make it back to the sea.

It is the final day, and Mr. Krab's execution is close at hand...unless Mindy can stall her father long enough.

SpongeBob and Patrick worry that they won't make it back in time, but are happy to see David Hasselhoff willing to swim them back to Bikini Bottom (For unknown reasons, this scene was a short-time meme on YTMND, where David's face and voice would be replaced by someone else, usually another fad.)! However, on the way back, Dennis makes his return. The ultimate battle begins on Hasselhoff's butt. Spongebob and Patrick try to keep from being stabbed, and they keep the hitman distracted long enough for him to hit the bottom of a boat and fall off. Hasselhoff uses his pecs to shoot the duo down through the roof of the Krusty Krab just as Mr. Krabs is about to fry. Plankton has an ace up his sleeve, though, and ambushes Neptune with a Chum Bucket helmet! But before the good guys can lose, SpongeBob uses the Goofy Goober song and the power of rock and roll to destroy all of the mind control helmets and save the day.

Neptune's crown is back, Mr. Krabs is free, Plankton is arrested, SpongeBob and Patrick are men, and SpongeBob finally fulfills his dream as manager of the Krusty Krab 2. Of course, he's blissfully unaware that his manager position is nothing more than a title, as his job is exactly the same as it was before, just with a bigger hat. At that point, the pirates are forced to leave the movie theater.

Box office success

Although the movie had a tremendous opening weekend, bringing in over $33 million, the film soon fell down the box office chart and earned an acceptable $85,416,609 in the United States and $135,311,137 in the entire world as of March 24, 2005.

Trivia

  • The teaser trailer uses footage from Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide and U-571.
  • The first swear word in SpongeBob was used when Mr. Krabs was whispering to SpongeBob at the beginning, it sounded like "jackass" to many people. Paramount edited in DVDs making it sound like "jackwhibble", but the "jackass" is still heard in VHS copies of the movie. Later, King Neptune calls the forged note written by Plankton "Damning". This is the only bad word not edited. At the end, during SpongeBob's song, the word "freaking" is used. This bad word was edited as a double "no" in the soundtrack. It is disputed how the movie got its PG rating.
  • This is the fourth Nickelodeon animated movie to be rated PG and it's also the first PG-rated Nickelodeon animated movie containing bad words, which don't sound like rude noises.
  • Since this takes place in 2031 (even though none of the things are futuristic), the episode of the show "Naughty Neighbors" has the thing "you'll do community services every Sunday for the rest of your life", the thing was to be intact in other episodes of Season 4 or other episodes are to be set in the near future before this film's setting.
  • This is the third time we hear Gary speaking english, he says "Meow, Plankton". The first was Sleepy Time (when SpongeBob in his dream, he speaks english) and the second was The Secret Box (he says No).

Sequels

World-wide release dates

In Japan, the Japanese release is planned for 2007 because the Japanese version of the TV series aired in 2002.

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