The decade that followed the release of 2004’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie led to a dry run of one uninspired, phoned-in season of SpongeBob after another, culminating in 2015’s Sponge Out of Water, a film that is so bonkers that it makes up for years of lost time.
SpongeBob’s (Tom Kenny) second big screen outing isn’t just a success, it feels like a fish who’s been stranded on land for an entire decade, somehow has survived, and is finally being thrown back into the deep blue sea.
Not only that, this fish is armed with psychedelics and caught a couple of Mad Max movies during his stint on land.
Finally, after 11 years of forgettable seasons, SpongeBob was back in a big, big way.
Sponge Out of Water isn’t just good, it isn’t just the best SpongeBob movie, it’s one of the best, most insane releases in the entire franchise.
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