Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? No one other than our resident sea sponge, Spongebob Squarepants, of course! Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward, and the rest of the aquatic gang, are back and better than ever with a fresh new 3D look. Due to the isolating and boring lockdown, Paramount Animation transitioned their latest installment of Spongebob into Netflix ー for the whole world to stream! Filled with flawless animation, catchy songs, and surprise appearances, Sponge on the Run is nothing but fun and krabby patties.
As a hard-core Spongebob Squarepants fan since childhood, I had many doubts about this movie. That’s because the first 3D Spongebob movie was… drowning in disappointment. Luckily, I found that this movie is actually pretty good. The movie starts off painting a picture of Spongebob, his life, and his friends. Spongebob’s relationship with his pet snail, Gary, was one of the main friendships focused on ー foreshadowing the main plot of the story: Gary had been snail-napped!
I’m all about adventure, and this is one factor that this movie seems to nail pretty well, while still keeping that comedic Spongebob feel. This movie does a pretty good job on balancing comedy and seriousness. There are plenty of scenes that made my bawl my eyes out with laughter, and some that made me miss my friends so bad. Experiencing and living in the era of COVID-19, one of the hardest challenges is not being able to see my friends in real life, and watching all of those heart-warming scenes with Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy, and Gary made me realize how much we really need our friends at a time like this. Of course, though, we should prioritize safety.
Friendship is the main theme of this movie, and what it taught me is that, if you miss them, or even family, call them, interact with them, tell them how you are, and maybe play plenty rounds of Among Us with them too! This movie also has super random, yet fitting, celebrity appearances such as Keanu Reeves (who plays a tumbleweed), Tiffany Haddish (who plays as a fish version of herself) and Snoop Dogg (who delivers a fun child-friendly rap song).
With all of this movie's highs, it has some lows of course. This movie blends in live action people into the movie for about fifteen minutes, and feels out of place in the movie and makes the audience go, “Is this the same movie?” Personally, I would love this movie even more without that whole live action aspect, but the kids loved it anyways, so that’s a win for Nickelodeon.
Sponge on the Run is a good way of making my generation’s childhood more expandable and available to the newer generations too! With a silk-like animation style, corny comedic one-liners, and the whole theme of friendship makes this movie a great kid’s movie. Take note of that. Kids movie. While making this review, I had to view the movie as if I was seven years old again, watching Spongebob episodes on my TV. With that nostalgic mindset, I had an amazing underwater adventure with Spongebob and our old friends from Bikini Bottom.
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