Overall I did not enjoy this film that much, mostly because I was expecting it to be as good as the first movie and was left sorely disappointed.
This movie isn't terrible by any means, but it's certainly a step down from the original movie and almost everything about it is worse.
It's a good premise, but I just feel like a lot of potential here was wasted. The pacing is really weird, the plot is all over the place, going from point A to point B within a matter of seconds. The music is fit into the movie very weirdly. There's hardly any build-up and the characters just act kind of dumb. I know a lot of people will disagree with me here but I also felt it just wasn't that funny. Burger beard's character just felt very bizarre, and the whole time travelling aspect seemed really random. It feels like there's a little too much "magic" going on which somehow brings the story forward. I know SpongeBob has never been the most realistic show going but the whole thing with the book was very strange and made it seem like the writers didn't know how to progress the story without using it is a scapegoat(for example SpongeBob and the gang writing themselves to be massive musclemen - it's just strange...). Then there's the whole thing with the all-knowing dolphin, and again, it just takes the unrealistic aspect of it up to too much of a notch and seems like they're writing the plot as it goes along.
A few things I did like about this movie however was the animation(gorgeous, both the 2D and 3D aspects so basically the whole film). The music in this movie was decent(although the name-drop of Lil Wayne in the song "Squeeze Me" was pretty weird. All of the major characters actually play a role in this movie which is also nice. There's also quite a lot going on in the movie in general which will keep a lot of kids entertained, especially the scenes when they're out of water.
If you've never seen the first movie you may enjoy this more, but in context of that one this one really doesn't hold up, I'm disappointed to say. I wanted to like this one, I really did.
5 stars - Average. Not good but not bad either
Pros: Includes most of the major SpongeBob characters and they actually have purpose, the animation is stellar throughout the whole movie, there's a lot happening in it to entertain kids
Cons: The plot/pacing, the "magic" and time-travelling aspects, bizarre and not that funny.
This movie isn't terrible by any means, but it's certainly a step down from the original movie and almost everything about it is worse.
It's a good premise, but I just feel like a lot of potential here was wasted. The pacing is really weird, the plot is all over the place, going from point A to point B within a matter of seconds. The music is fit into the movie very weirdly. There's hardly any build-up and the characters just act kind of dumb. I know a lot of people will disagree with me here but I also felt it just wasn't that funny. Burger beard's character just felt very bizarre, and the whole time travelling aspect seemed really random. It feels like there's a little too much "magic" going on which somehow brings the story forward. I know SpongeBob has never been the most realistic show going but the whole thing with the book was very strange and made it seem like the writers didn't know how to progress the story without using it is a scapegoat(for example SpongeBob and the gang writing themselves to be massive musclemen - it's just strange...). Then there's the whole thing with the all-knowing dolphin, and again, it just takes the unrealistic aspect of it up to too much of a notch and seems like they're writing the plot as it goes along.
A few things I did like about this movie however was the animation(gorgeous, both the 2D and 3D aspects so basically the whole film). The music in this movie was decent(although the name-drop of Lil Wayne in the song "Squeeze Me" was pretty weird. All of the major characters actually play a role in this movie which is also nice. There's also quite a lot going on in the movie in general which will keep a lot of kids entertained, especially the scenes when they're out of water.
If you've never seen the first movie you may enjoy this more, but in context of that one this one really doesn't hold up, I'm disappointed to say. I wanted to like this one, I really did.
5 stars - Average. Not good but not bad either
Pros: Includes most of the major SpongeBob characters and they actually have purpose, the animation is stellar throughout the whole movie, there's a lot happening in it to entertain kids
Cons: The plot/pacing, the "magic" and time-travelling aspects, bizarre and not that funny.