The SpongeBob Movie: Wonders of the World

The SpongeBob Movie: Wonders of the World is a film adaption based off the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. It was a co-production of CLAY Studios and Nickelodeon Movies.
=== Plot ===
Seth Shacky, a 10-year old son of a divorced couple, is presenting his incomplete school paper about a historic event he was tasked to write about. The unamused teacher warns Seth to finish his paper by tomorrow or face being referred to by his parents. After school, Seth goes home to an apartment owned by his father, Steve, an unemployed computer scientist who is doing research for his grand invention, a supercomputer called the SRP (Super Reality Projector) that possesses artificial intelligence with the ability to project virtual reality. After dinner, Steve leaves to gather research on a piece of hardware, leaving Seth with the SRP. A curious Seth encounters the SRP and, after being unable to get it to help finish his school work, hooks up his TiVo box to watch recorded episodes of "SpongeBob SquarePants".
At that moment, SpongeBob, the show’s main character, his friend Patrick, and SpongeBob’s boss Mr. Krabs discover they have a will of their own and go off-script. Seth manages to hack into the computer to bring SpongeBob out of the show, along with Patrick and Mr Krabs, as the 3 become CGI characters capable of interacting with reality. The quartet forms a bond with each other, but SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs’ departure from the show causes them to lose their cartoonish abilities as time goes on, and they end up causing trouble throughout the real world, destroying Seth’s apartment and causing car wrecks throughout the city. Meanwhile, Plankton (identified in the treatment through his full name, Sheldon J. Plankton) and his family inadvertently escape the show and look to take over the real world.
When Steve comes home to see his apartment in ruins, Seth’s mother, Lydia, also stops by and the two start to argue. Seth attempts to explain what happened but neither believe him, with both blaming him for the mess. Seth is then taken out of Steve’s custody to Lydia’s home, where SpongeBob and friends track him down. After leaving the house without Lydia noticing, SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Seth devise a plot to find out about and stop Plankton’s scheme by searching for the ultra powerful Krabby Patty Ingredients that are scattered across the real world encased in ordinary rocks. After finding an Ingredient, SpongeBob uses its power to temporarily regain his squash and stretch abilities, and he gives Seth a taste of the power of the ingredient to help finish his schoolwork, though SpongeBob warns Seth not to further exploit the ingredient’s power until he can master it. At the same time, Plankton sets up a shell corporation called Chum Corporation and uses it to purchase the abandoned Boomshakalaka Amusement Park, renaming it Chum Land. He recruits a group of school bullies and transforms them into Alaskan Bull Worms. Plankton orders his worms to look around the park and find the remaining ingredients.
Plankton then runs into Steve, who reluctantly accepts Plankton’s offer to be the park's main research and development designer. Using Steve’s SRP technology, Plankton develops a virtual reality ride to draw kids to the newly revived theme park. The park opens to huge crowds, with kids all across town attending opening day. However, when the gang manage to inspect the ride, they discover Plankton is using the ride to turn the kids into Chum Monsters, calling them Kinder-Chums and forcing them to look around the park to find the Ingredients. After further inspection, the quartet discovers that Plankton, using the secret ingredients, will program the SRP to turn the world's natural landmarks, such as Mount Rushmore and the Amazon rainforest, into digital replicas so that he can make virtual reality experiences and profit off of people wanting to see them, so that they wouldn't have to visit the landmarks themselves. The Alaskan Bull Worms catch the quartet and a chase ensues, ending with a tired and weak SpongeBob being captured and Mr. Krabs, Seth, and Patrick barely escaping.
After the chase, the Kinder-Chums return home, being unconditionally obedient to their parents. Seth hatches a plan to return everything back to normal and return Plankton back into the cartoon world. The climax has the trio rescue SpongeBob and they battle Plankton before Seth activates the SRP and causes himself, SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Plankton, and the Chum Monsters and Bull Worms to enter the show. Another battle ensues, with the newly rejuvenated SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs eventually defeating Plankton with Seth’s help. With Plankton’s plans foiled, he vows to return and escapes. SpongeBob and his pals decide to stay in their world knowing that they need to be there to stop Plankton’s schemes, and bids Seth farewell before the latter returns home and reunites with Steve and Lydia. The film ends with Seth promising Steve to remove the SRP, until he sees SpongeBob’s eye wink at him at the screen and starts watching the show again.
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