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| SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS THE MOVIE (2004) - PG
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by Lew Irwin
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 It was inevitable that The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie would be compared by critics to the SpongeBob SquarePants Nickelodeon TV show. On ABC's Good Morning America, film critic Joel Siegel remarked: "I love the TV show. Which is probably why I didn't like the movie. Like when you really love a book, you're almost always disappointed with the movie? They left stuff out." A.O. Scott, who brought his children to the screening, reacted similarly: "This is the only time I can recall hearing my own children ... complain that a movie was too short. They had a point: ... the movie lacks the density of the television episodes, around seven of which would fit comfortably inside it." Despite that, Scott comments, the movie "is a marvel of unleashed childishness." Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal concludes, "The movie is much too long, but mostly, and sometimes very, entertaining." Peter Howell in the Toronto Star doesn't see a lot of difference between the movie and the TV show. "Working on the theory that if it ain't broke, don't fix it," he writes, "the movie mainly expands on characters and ideas seen in the TV show. For the most part, it's an easy and happy stretch, big on slapstick and jokes that groan rather than gross out." |
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