Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today! Parents need to know that The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is a buddy road-trip musical that marks the third feature film based on the long-running TV show/franchise. SpongeBob (voiced by Tom Kenny) continues to be a wellspring of optimism and innocence in an underwater world full of comically.
And yet, we now have "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run," following in the sloshy footsteps of " The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie " (2004) and " The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water " (2015). They're all fine for the littlest of kids, who likely will delight in the zany adventures and colorful animation. 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. The point of SpongeBob SquarePants in general-and the specific aim of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, the third entry in the feature.
The world's most famous sea sponge gets a tasteful makeover in a new movie that stays true to its franchise's sweetly demented nature. Everyone's favorite resident of a certain deep-sea pineapple is back in his first big-screen adventure since the untimely passing of SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg, who succumbed to ALS in 2018. Hillenburg's absence is felt rather keenly in "Sponge on the Run," which was written and directed by frequent "Bob" scribe Tim Hill, as a certain magic is absent in our yellow friend.
'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run': Film Review Keanu Reeves, Awkwafina, Tiffany Haddish and Snoop Dogg are among those joining the long-time voice cast in 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge. Here's a vintage SpongeBob moment, the kind that makes some of us who are years past the demo feel like we can't get enough of him. In "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run," our hero.
This new franchise installment, "Sponge on the Run," wants to be clever in nodding toward genre conventions. But its execution is poor.