Product: Spongebob Squarepants: Movie
Rating: 3.0
My boys really loved it, but...
My two sons adore SpongeBob and they are the reason we bought this movie. We did not go see this while it was in theaters because I'm not such a big fan of the little yellow guy that I wanted to pay movie theater prices to take my boys to see the movie, but the television show does make me smile a lot of the time so we thought we'd pick it up once it was out on DVD. Of course my sons think the movie is great and they would give it a much higher rating, but my biggest complaint and the reason for only 3 stars is that the movie was just too long and the laughs were forced- a 30 minute cartoon is the perfect length for SpongeBob, 87 minutes is really pushing it. The movie did have some funny scenes in it, but it also had some parts I thought were just dumb- ie, the David Hasslehoff scenes were amusing for just a second or two and then they quickly became annoying to me. Also, I didn't really like the voice of Princess Mindy- it wasn't animated enough for a SpongeBob cartoon character, and was kind of bland and boring. I'm middle of the road as far a recommending this movie simply because my kids have really been enjoying it so I'd say even if you are a SpongeBob fan rent it first then decide if you want to own it.