The SpongeBob Movie: Battle for Bikini Bottom

The SpongeBob Movie: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a 2023 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies, United Plankton Pictures and Media Rights Capital for Paramount Pictures. Based on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants created by Stephen Hillenburg, the film is also based on the 2003 video game Battle for Bikini Bottom published by THQ.
Directed by former showrunner Paul Tibbitt, who co-produced the film with Tim Hill, Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli, it is written by Derek Drymon, and stars the main series cast of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Mr. Lawrence and Jill Talley, and introduces Liam Neeson. In the film, after a robotic apocalypse takes over Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob SquarePants and Sandy Cheeks try and collect six Golden Spatulas scattered across the ocean floor to save Bikini Bottom from the aforementioned apocalypse, led by Plankton.
Paramount announced in February 2022 that a fourth SpongeBob movie would be made. In March, it was announced that the film had entered the writing stage. Like the series, and the first film, its animation is produced at Rough Draft Studios' main animation division in South Korea. CGI sequences were animated by Reel FX Animation. Christopher Lennertz composed the music for the film.
The SpongeBob Movie: Battle for Bikini Bottom premiered in London on November 21, 2023, before it was theatrically released on December 8, 2023 by Paramount Pictures. It received generally mixed reviews, with praise for its animation, action sequences, voice performances, music and faithfulness to the source material, though criticized the plot, runtime, screenplay and unnecessary plot points.
== Synopsis ==
SpongeBob and Patrick purchase a magic wishing shell toy and use it on a toy robot. Meanwhile, Plankton builds an army of robots in an effort to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, only for them to turn on him and cause destruction in Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob thinks he caused this and vows to stop this robot invasion and save Bikini Bottom. With the help of Patrick and Sandy, SpongeBob must travel throughout the ocean floor to collect six Golden Spatulas that could save Bikini Bottom.
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