A- Grade (as a coherent children’s film): B+ Number of times a dolphin swears during the rap sequence: 1 (censored)
The Krabby Patty Singularity: How The SpongeBob Movie Deconstructs Narrative, Reality, and the Nature of the Creator The Spongebob Movie
This jarring transition forces the audience to re-evaluate what "SpongeBob" even is. Is he a character? An intellectual property? A bundle of pixels? Sponge Out of Water is, at its core, a film about the terror of irrelevance . Bikini Bottom collapses without its recipe (i.e., the show collapses without new jokes). SpongeBob has to leave his comfortable 2D world for the harsh, texture-mapped reality of 2015 CGI. He even has to share screen time with seagulls and beach-goers who ignore him. A- Grade (as a coherent children’s film): B+