The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Critic Reviews

The result is an animated adventure that's funnier than "Shark Tale" and more charming than "The Polar Express."Read the full review

The movie itself triumphs by similar means; it is a marvel of unleashed childishness, like a birthday party on the edge of spinning out of control.Read the full review

Its instinctive, unstoppable cheerfulness can be, as all those millions of viewers have found, something of a tonic if you're in the mood.Read the full review

Delightful.Read the full review

Assuming that few members of SpongeBob's primary audience are reading this (or can read), all I can tell you is, the movie is likely to be more fun than you expect.Read the full review

The film, which is as economically made as it is primitively animated, ambles from adventure to adventure, taking nothing seriously, not even itself.Read the full review

An amusing enough romp through his familiar undersea universe.Read the full review

Possesses charm, as well as visual and musical appeal, on the bigscreen. But as with many short-form TV entities when sextupled in length, "SpongeBob" proves more palatable as scrumptious fast food than full-scale repast.Read the full review

Throws humorous fish bones to the older crowd, too.Read the full review