Thursday, June 18, 2026

Movie Thoughts: The Spongebob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025)

  • Released: October 26th, 2025
  • Directed by: Derek Drymon
  • Running time: 1h 28min
  • Rating 2/5

Synopsis

Mr. Krabs, Squidward and Gary go to look for SpongeBob when the sponge makes a deal with the Flying Dutchman to turn him into a big boy.

My Thoughts

This one I kinda planned on seeing much earlier, but due to the English version no longer playing in theaters I had to wait for it to drop onto streaming. I know the Dutch SpongeBob voices, and they’re very, very annoying-sounding.
 
And now that I watched it...yeah, I’m sorry, but I think that this is yet another forgettable and bad SpongeBob movie. It really seems that after the first one they stopped trying with these, because I’ve not liked a single one of these that came out after the first. Some are worse than others, but this one. Eh.
 
First of all, the visuals. I don’t like that these movies are entirely CGI now, especially since some characters don’t even have proper textures. Seriously, Mr. Krabs and Squidward look like they’re made out of plastic. Some of the new character designs also really suck. Especially the three-headed seagull creature late into this movie just straight up looks like it doesn’t belong in the SpongeBob universe at all. And it’s feather texture looks like that of a cheap 2008 CGI movie, not that of a 2020s movie.
 
Second, the plot feels recycled. The whole "want to be a big boy" aspect and the monstrous deep sea setting feel like they're ripping off from the first movie, and the rollercoaster cowardice feels like it's borrowing heavily from the Roller Cowards episode. 
 
The movie itself was also painfully unfunny and just kinda boring to be honest. I wish I had more to say about it, but it legit just feels like a mediocre movie with nothing all that noteworthy about it. 
 
It's not terrible or anything, but so far I just don't really like any of these SpongeBob movies after the first one. 




 



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