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Cast

See also: List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters

Concept artwork of the characters’ younger designs, introduced in the film’s flashback sequence.

The series’ regular voice cast reprised their roles for the film.

Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants and Gary the Snail

Antonio Raul Corbo as Young SpongeBob

Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star

Jack Gore as Young Patrick

Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles

Jason Maybaum as Young Squidward

Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs

Mr. Lawrence as Plankton

Jill Talley as Karen

Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks

Presley Williams as Young Sandy

Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff

Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs

Matt Berry as King Poseidon

Awkwafina as Otto

Keanu Reeves as Sage

Snoop Dogg as The Gambler

Danny Trejo as El Diablo

Tiffany Haddish as Master of Ceremonies

Reggie Watts as Chancellor

Production

Development

In a February 2015 interview discussing The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’s success at the box office, Megan Colligan, president of worldwide distribution and marketing at Paramount Pictures, stated the possibility of a third film was “a good bet.” In another interview, Paramount vice-chairman Rob Moore remarked, “Hopefully, it won’t take 10 years to make another film,” in reference to the time passed between The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) and its 2015 sequel. Later in 2015, it was revealed that Paramount was developing sequels to its franchises, including another SpongeBob film.

The film was initially scheduled for release in 2019, before being delayed to 2020.By January 2016, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger had been hired to write the film.

In March 2017, Paramount president Marc Evans announced that the studio would work closely with Viacom on its TV brands, including the SpongeBob film. During the same month, Yahoo! Entertainment stated that the film would be titled The SpongeBob Movie.

In April 2018, the film’s official title was revealed as The SpongeBob Movie: It’s a Wonderful Sponge, and SpongeBob co-developer Tim Hill was announced as director and writer for the film. It was reported later in the year that the film would be written by Aibel, Berger, and Michael Kvamme. The principal cast — Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence, Jill Talley, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan — are all expected to reprise the roles as their respective characters from the series and the previous films. In October 2018, at the VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy, Paramount Animation president Mireille Soria revealed the plot for the film. The same day, Hans Zimmer was announced as the composer for the film, while Paris and Montreal-based Mikros Image would handle animation for the film, which would be created entirely through computer animation.

On June 12, 2019, it was announced that Reggie Watts and Awkwafina were added to the cast while Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, who wrote a song for The SpongeBob Musical, would be writing original songs for the film. It was also announced that Mia Michaels would be choreographing and Ali Dee Theodore would add an original song for the film.The next day, Snoop Dogg announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he would be in the film.

On November 12, 2019, it was revealed that the film’s title was changed from It’s a Wonderful Sponge to Sponge on the Run, along with the casting of Keanu Reeves.

Filming

On January 22, 2019, it was confirmed that production on the film had officially begun.Like its predecessors, the film will include live-action sequences, and unlike the previous films, the animated sequences of the film are entirely computer-animated. Larry Fong was initially reported to serve as the film’s cinematographer, but due to unknown reasons Peter Lyons Collister ended up solely with the credit.

Release

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run was originally scheduled to be theatrically released on February 9, 2019, by Paramount Pictures. It was then pushed back to August 2, 2019, before being delayed nearly a year to July 31, 2020. It was moved four more times: to July 17, 2020, May 22, 2020, July 31 (as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic), and finally August 7, 2020. In June 2020, it was announced that the film’s theatrical release had been cancelled and it would instead be released through video on demand and CBS All Access in early 2021. In December 2020, it was revealed that the film will be releasing in February 2021.

In July 2020, Netflix acquired international distribution rights to the film, excluding the United States, Canada, and China.On July 30, 2020, Paramount Pictures Canada announced that the film would be released in Canadian theaters on August 14, 2020. Between the Netflix and CBS All Access deals, Paramount recouped the entire production cost of the film. The film was released internationally on Netflix on November 5, 2020.

Reception

Box office

In the film’s debut Canadian weekend, it grossed $865,824 from 300 theaters. Since Canada’s grosses are factored into American totals, Sponge on the Run finished first at the box office, and had the highest weekend total for a film since the start of the pandemic. IndieWire estimated that had the film had a traditional North American theatrical release it would have opened to $25–30 million, including a $3 million total from Canada. In its second weekend, despite being added to an additional 26 theaters, the film dropped 36% to $550,000, finishing second behind Unhinged. In its third weekend the film made $400,000 from 314 theaters, then $345,000 in its fourth weekend, for a month-long running total of $3.6 million.

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 77% of critics recommended seeing the film based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 5.90/10.

Writing for CTV News, Richard Crouse gave the film 3.5 stars and wrote: “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on The Run brings with it the usual anarchy, inside jokes and unexpected celebrity cameos, but at its little osmotic heart is SpongeBob, a character who belongs to the same genus of entertainers as Soupy Sales, Stan Laurel and Pee-wee Herman.” Aparita Bhandari of The Globe and Mail gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, writing: “I totally understand if the latest SpongeBob SquarePants movie spinoff will draw in longtime fans and new audiences brave enough to venture into a movie theatre this Friday… However, for me and my two kids (aged 10 and 8), this dive into the deep sea wasn’t as thrilling an adventure as we’d hoped for…