In this overly mild outing, you can feel SpongeBob sliding into the zone of a harebrained yet rote elder statesman of high-energy juvenilia. In “Search for SquarePants,” our cheerfully oblivious hero ...

Aristotle, Søren Kierkegaard, and Henri Bergson have all offered theories of comedy to explain the origin and purpose of laughter. But none dealt with the most important source of laughter, one that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The previous SpongeBob SquarePants movies have been a lot of fun, and in his latest adventure, ...

SpongeBob SquarePants just wants to be a big guy. For our bubble blowing, Bikini Bottom resident (voiced by Tom Kenny), that means reaching the coveted height of 36 clams tall so that he can finally ...

SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS is funny and has strong, heartwarming moral and redemptive content. For instance, the movie has allegorical Christological features. The villain is looking for the world’s most ...

He’s such an excitable boy (apologies here to Warren Zevon). That would be SpongeBob SquarePants, the ever-cheerful, deeply yellow, bucktoothed chatterbox kitchen sponge who’s been beguiling animation ...

The latest installment to this entertainment juggernaut relies on a cheap, rote formula and easy gags to keep children engaged. By Brandon Yu When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

SpongeBob SquarePants (voiced by Tom Kenny) is taken to the Underworld by the Flying Dutchman (Mark Hamill) in the animated comedy "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants." ...

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After more than 25 years on television and a handful of theatrical outings, SpongeBob SquarePants has grown beyond a mere cartoon character into a permanent pop culture fixture, embraced by toddlers, ...