Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie

...it really took a turn for the worse. The first half of the movie wasn't that bad. This movie was initially like putting on a comfortable pair of pajamas, comfortable and familiar. But at the specific point where my family all turned to each other and said, "That's just like Shark Boy and Lava Girl" (if you've seen this movie, you'll know exactly the moment), that was the point of no return. It was all downhill after that.

All of the familiar characters were well performed. As for the human element...geez. One of the characters at one point asks, "Wait...we get a paycheck?". Yes, and that's clearly all this was for.

The lackluster performances and abysmal CGI drag the movie down to the point of not being enjoyable. 4/10 is maybe generous, but that's where I'll land.

Out of the blue, Bikini Bottom gets scooped out of the ocean by BOOTS (Bureau Of Official Texas Science) Laboratory and Water Park. Sandy and SpongeBob avoid capture. Sandy knows them. The duo sets off to rescue everybody.

I actually like the first part of the movie up to the first drop to BOOTS. I didn't understand the low rating and then I saw the rest of the movie. I hate the family. They are just annoying chaos for annoying chaos' sake. I never really needed a back story for Sandy. It was always better to leave it up to the imagination. The infinite worst part is Wanda Sykes and her two minions. This is a bad version of Spy Kids. I like the original Spy Kids for what it is and it is not the same as SpongeBob SquarePants. Somebody do not understand why SpongeBob is good. It is not being a wacky kids show.

I am a big fan of SpongeBob, the series. I also love he 3 first movies that appeared.

So with a great excitement I started to watch this with my family. I cannot find the words to express how disappointed we all were. Already the first 15-20 minutes and we started all to have that gut feeling that something is terribly not working with this movie. We kept watching in hope it will get better. Then it was clear it will not. Then we were watching in hope that it will at least contain some funny scenes. It was also not the case..

Everything with this move is wrong

1 Jokes are so unfunny, that we were thinking if this is not some "parody" of a SpongeBob movie 2. The story and the pacing was not holding well 3. CGI and visual side of the movie was.. just ok but not great 4. And then the worse.. the villains.

Not sure how they could do the villans in such a bad way. The acting is completely wooden and unconvincing. It did not even fell like a proper movie. I twas so cheap and bad like you would watch some low budget series from the 80s. Imagine live action Power Rangers from the 80s/90s or this cheap and boring superheroes series that Nickelodeon is showing now.

This felt like a badly made fan-fic not a proper SpongeBob movie. Or like a counterfait SpongeBob movie bought for 5$ on TEMU.

We were excited to watch this for movie night. After the first 15 minutes we made ourselves keep watching.to see if it got better. It didn't . We continued to watch though to see how much worse it could get and it did. The water stated 7 years and older but it really should have been 7 years and under. If we went to the theatre to see this I would have been more excited about the free popcorn refills. Super young ones will probably laugh and enjoy it at least. Definitely was not what we were expecting from all the previous movies. The human fish will be stuck in our minds forever. We chose to finish the movie so that's on us, but at this point fart jokes would have been easier to watch.

The CGI is really bad and unsettling at some moments like Kamp Koral but the writing is also lazy with some weird foot fetish moments despite people who work on the show being involved on this. The villain is also boring and it's just a generic diverse female Ernst Stavro Blofeld type villain who's mostly a ripoff of Burger Beard from Sponge Out of Water but without any of the charm that character had. The musical stuff were unnecessary and the CGI animation didn't help unlike the musical scenes from the previous films like i'm a goofy goober which were catchy and the new characters like the robot horse and Sandy's family are extremely forgettable. Better wait for The Search for Squarepants instead of watching a low budget TV film ripoff.