{"id":2207728,"date":"2025-12-21T18:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2207728"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:18:46","slug":"the-spongebob-movie-search-for-squarepants-review-its-spongebob-on-a-pirate-adventure-but-with-most-of-the-joy-squeezed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-spongebob-movie-search-for-squarepants-review-its-spongebob-on-a-pirate-adventure-but-with-most-of-the-joy-squeezed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants\u2019 Review: It\u2019s SpongeBob on a Pirate Adventure, but With Most of the Joy Squeezed Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It might be an exaggeration to say that \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt23572848\/\">The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants<\/a>\u201d is the movie that finally squeegees the life out of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206512\/\">SpongeBob SquarePants<\/a>. But watching this friendly yet rather toothless adventure, with its jokes that simply don\u2019t pop the way they used to, you can feel <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206512\/\">SpongeBob<\/a> sliding into the zone of a harebrained yet rote elder statesman of high-energy juvenilia. He\u2019s still a beguiling doofus who, as voiced by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0444786\/\">Tom Kenny<\/a>, sounds like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1082823\/\">Daffy Duck<\/a> on laughing gas, and there\u2019s still an appealing aura of arrested kitsch to the now shiny and digital \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206512\/\">SpongeBob<\/a>\u201d world. But the original \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206512\/\">SpongeBob<\/a>\u201d series, and several of the previous big-screen adaptations, struck much funnier notes of flippant irresponsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011, when the original <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1076204\/\">Nickelodeon<\/a> TV series \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206512\/\">SpongeBob SquarePants<\/a>\u201d got called on the carpet by a study in Pediatrics magazine, which found that the show was damaging the attention span of 4-year-olds,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be an exaggeration to say that \u201cThe SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants\u201d is the movie that finally squeegees the life out of SpongeBob SquarePants. But watching this friendly yet rather toothless adventure, with its jokes that simply don\u2019t pop the way they used to, you can feel SpongeBob sliding into the zone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2207728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018The-SpongeBob-Movie-Search-For-SquarePants-Review-Its-SpongeBob-on.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207730,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207728\/revisions\/2207730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}