The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: A Review.

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Today, as a 25th anniversary tribute to SpongeBob SquarePants, and as a tribute to the series' late creator, Stephen Hillenburg, I am gonna review the 2004 hit comedy-adventure film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, which was brought back to Paramount+ more than a week ago!

This film, if you couldn't decipher by the title, is the 1st film adventure of the little square dude. Heck, a LOT of TV-show-based movies have that type of title, "The (show name) Movie". Nickelodeon does that a lot for movies based on their Nicktoons, especially the first Nicktoon movie they EVER made, The Rugrats Movie from 1998*.

But I digress. I'm gonna describe the plot of this film. Sheldon Plankton, the antagonist, puts his most evil plan yet into effect, "Plan Z", which involves framing Mr. Eugene Krabs, making King Neptune think the crustaceous cheapskate stole his crown, and sold it to a guy in Shell City, a gift shop at the seashore. All this in an attempt to steal the secret formula for Bikini Bottom's favorite fast food item, the Krabby Patty. All while our hero SpongeBob SquarePants proves that he isn't a kid so that Mr. Krabs can make him the Manager of the Krusty Krab 2. He does this by bringing his friend Patrick Star along on an epic, unprecedented adventure, in order to "get the crown, save the town and Mr. Krabs".

My favorite aspects of this movie were as follows:

• The musical score by Gregor Narholz and the London Metropolitan Orchestra.
• The production music, such as my favorite, "Hawaiian March", composed by Japanese musicians Setsuo Ohashi and Yasateru Miura for a Belgium-based Hawaiian music band called The Waikikis. This track was used when SpongeBob gets ready for the managerial announcement.
• I also enjoyed the original music, such as "The Best Day Ever", which is the last song played in the credits. 
• Ween's "Ocean Man", alongside the 1st part of the credits, which is funny, since Ween's other songs are kinda inappropriate. They also did an original song from the Season 2 premiere "Your Shoe's Untied".
• I also like the song parodies, like "You Better Swim", which was a parody of "You Better Run", performed by the same band, Motörhead, and "Goofy Goober Rock", which according to the credits, is "a derivative of 'I Wanna Rock' by Dee Snider" of Twisted Sister. 
• The film's direction and production by the late, great Stephen Hillenburg makes for a legendary finale to the classic era of SpongeBob.
• The parrot in the theater being voiced by Hillenburg is a great cameo by the iconic creator.
• The sudden appearance of David Hasselhoff was a funny, yet expensive joke, considering his popularity at the time, due to Baywatch.
• The animation is of double the quality of the series, as a movie based on a cartoon should have. The rotoscoping when the Cyclops grabs SpongeBob and Patrick in the climax is so good, and it actually looks like the Cyclops is actually holding them.

Some bad things are:

• They should've had Patchy the Pirate as one of the Pirates in the movie.
• Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy have just a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo.
• That's it

I'd give it a 10/10, since it is my favorite Nickelodeon movie.

*Also, the title of the 3rd Rugrats movie, Rugrats Go Wild, doesn't end with an exclamation point; it's just the Mandela effect messing with you.