Product: Spongebob Squarepants: Movie
Rating: 2.0
Yeah, okay, the kids liked it...
Maybe two stars is too low, I kind of averaged out what my three year old thought of it and what I thought of it.I took my above forementioned three year old, actually she's three and a half and quite ahead of her years, but that's going off the subject so never mind, I took her and her nine year old cousin to the theater to see this, and they both liked it.Now my daughter likes movies, perhaps more than most her age, and her tastes range from the standard Disney classics to Spider Man to some of the LOTR (I won't let her watch the really scary parts) and even some odd ball stuff like the battle sequence in the Incredible Flop, I mean Hulk, movie. Anyway, back to the subject at hand, I don't have television at my house, I think it's a tool of satan, personally, but my ex likes cable so my child was, at some point in time, exposed to Sponge Bob.When I first found out, I sort of cringed, I mean, I figured there had to be something mentally wrong with someone that would create a cartoon character out of a sponge, but, who am I to say what peoples tastes are? So my kid likes this Sponge Bob dude, okay, worse things could happen.I'd never really watched the cartoon before going to see this flick, except for a few minutes here and there, so I was hoping maybe I'd figure out the draw. I didn't really, except to maybe theorize that the extremely loud and obnoxious dialogue and the extremely loud and obnoxious drawing style of the cartoons is such a stimulus to kids that they just can't help themselves.In one scene in this flick, the character Patrick is dancing around in fish net stockings. He is supposed to be a kid, or at least, just a young man, so I guess the humor here is supposed to be aimed at adults, but for me, I just found it stupid.The movie Team America was truly funny and filled with adult humor, it wasn't aimed at kids, it was rated R, etc. This flick entertains kids because they don't care what's going on, don't care what the stupid jokes are and just get so engaged in the loudness of it all they eat it up like candy, okay, but I didn't care for it at all, but, on the other hand, I had a nice evening out with two beautiful young ladies and, that, in itself, is priceless, so heck, just because I thought it was dumb movie doesn't mean I'm not recommending it, I'm just saying, you'd better be going for someone else's pleasure, unless you like really stupid humor.