Wow! Weird. Weird. Crazy. Wackily Weird. What else would you expect from a Spongebob movie? Spongebobbiness to the exponential factor!! But I was certainly surprised. Underneath all that wackiness, there is a nicely structured storyline and the characters (both spongebob's team and Burger Beard) have clear motivations with clear stakes at risk.
Antonio Banderas (Burger Beard) humanizes this story, it gives it the real world dimension. Excellent. He is so vivid and expressive. With just gestures and a little bit of words, we figure out what Burger Beard wants and why. Note: I loved Bandera's pirate-hybrid ship!
The story begins with a mystery - which is puzzling, but that's the whole point--to keep the audience interested. Burger Beard retrieves a magical book that will grant him access to the secret recipe of Krabby Patties...Zaap!
Then things go completely wacky (almost intolerable!) when the film switches to 2-D: the underwater Spongebob world. This part of the movie takes too long and gets off tangent too many times. At several points I wondered if I was watching the same original story. A lot of detours occur around the chaos that ensues when the recipe for the patties disappears mysteriously...Zaap! Ahh! You see the connection?
In a Spongebob-style bizarre and insufferable way, the protagonists try to figure out a solution to the problem. They go through several motions here, the movie gets a bit boring during this part. Then they come up with a preposterous solution that involves nachos and an old fashioned photo-booth, which eventually we figure out it has a clear objective -- they meet an alien (which will make some sort of nonsensical sense later in the film).
Midpoint, Spongebob and his friends land in human 3-D beach. Their 3-D shapes are wonderful, great designs! The sequence in the beach (the one shown in the trailers) is hilarious and keeps you interested. As the team navigates 3D human-land, meanwhile, Burger Beard is happily growing his business. Then things turn around when Beard meets the "Justice League" (Spongebob and his friends).
In a convenient manner (convenient events are pervasive across the film--which makes sense because of its weirdness tone)...ZAAP! again, the underwater cartoons now turned 3-D, become superheroes thanks to Burger Beard's attempt to vanish them and thanks to the thankful "alien." This is when the final sequences, the battles to retrieve the Krabby Pattie, begin.
In the end, friendship and justice prevails.
This film brings to memory "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," with the combination of 2-D cartoons and live action.
My daughter wants to see this craziness again! She liked it and she's intrigued by a lot of the wackiness. I will watch it again too, not because I like Spongebob (I absolutely don't!!) but because I enjoyed the storyline and Bandera's acting. I admit it, I liked the film...
Let a little bit of wackiness rock your life.
Go and get spongedbobbed!
Thanks for reading.
Cheers.
Antonio Banderas (Burger Beard) humanizes this story, it gives it the real world dimension. Excellent. He is so vivid and expressive. With just gestures and a little bit of words, we figure out what Burger Beard wants and why. Note: I loved Bandera's pirate-hybrid ship!
The story begins with a mystery - which is puzzling, but that's the whole point--to keep the audience interested. Burger Beard retrieves a magical book that will grant him access to the secret recipe of Krabby Patties...Zaap!
Then things go completely wacky (almost intolerable!) when the film switches to 2-D: the underwater Spongebob world. This part of the movie takes too long and gets off tangent too many times. At several points I wondered if I was watching the same original story. A lot of detours occur around the chaos that ensues when the recipe for the patties disappears mysteriously...Zaap! Ahh! You see the connection?
In a Spongebob-style bizarre and insufferable way, the protagonists try to figure out a solution to the problem. They go through several motions here, the movie gets a bit boring during this part. Then they come up with a preposterous solution that involves nachos and an old fashioned photo-booth, which eventually we figure out it has a clear objective -- they meet an alien (which will make some sort of nonsensical sense later in the film).
Midpoint, Spongebob and his friends land in human 3-D beach. Their 3-D shapes are wonderful, great designs! The sequence in the beach (the one shown in the trailers) is hilarious and keeps you interested. As the team navigates 3D human-land, meanwhile, Burger Beard is happily growing his business. Then things turn around when Beard meets the "Justice League" (Spongebob and his friends).
In a convenient manner (convenient events are pervasive across the film--which makes sense because of its weirdness tone)...ZAAP! again, the underwater cartoons now turned 3-D, become superheroes thanks to Burger Beard's attempt to vanish them and thanks to the thankful "alien." This is when the final sequences, the battles to retrieve the Krabby Pattie, begin.
In the end, friendship and justice prevails.
This film brings to memory "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," with the combination of 2-D cartoons and live action.
My daughter wants to see this craziness again! She liked it and she's intrigued by a lot of the wackiness. I will watch it again too, not because I like Spongebob (I absolutely don't!!) but because I enjoyed the storyline and Bandera's acting. I admit it, I liked the film...
Let a little bit of wackiness rock your life.
Go and get spongedbobbed!
Thanks for reading.
Cheers.