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Overall, it’s just a shame that a show as creative as SpongeBob can come off as stale, but that’s unfortunately the case with Sponge On The Run. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) There is one scene where Patrick is parasailing over a crowd at the grand opening of the Krusty Krab 2 with a pole wedged in between his. And I’m not one to argue canon (especially for SpongeBob), but some of the things they introduce in these flashbacks don’t make sense at all within the show. Unfortunately, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie takes this kind of humor too far and many times crosses the line into humor that is inappropriate for young children. However, the movie stops for about 15 minutes afterward to do the same with the other characters and it becomes less of a character-building moment and more of a commercial for that Kamp Koral show CBS is airing next year. There’s even a sweet bit where they flashback to how the pair met for the first time. Those parts do work at tugging on the heartstrings a bit and it’s something that feels honest and genuine. The strongest points of the movie are the points where they delve more into SpongeBob and Gary’s friendship. The closest it comes to capturing that absurdity is an extended sequence involving a scene-stealing Keanu Reeves as a talking tumbleweed, and even then it feels like a lesser version of those prior moments. There’s no way to make a casino scene set to Livin’ La Vida Loca not tired in 2020. In its place, we get a lot of gags that feel ripped out of a lower-tier Dreamworks movie. There’s no moment that gets as delightfully insane as the time-travel sequence from Sponge Out of Water or the Goofy Goober Rock scene from the original movie. It never gets as weird or hilarious some of the show’s funniest moments, or even from the last 2 movies. The whole movie feels oddly restrained because of the animation switch.
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This is the first Spongebob movie to make a full shift to CG animation, and it’s honestly all the lesser for it.