The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is a semi-famous movie. In this movie, SpongeBob travels to Atlantic City to find Gary.

## Why it is Atlantic City itself (in a good way)

1. Just like the first and second movies, it stays completely faithful to the TV series.
2. Gorgeous CGI animation that is just as good as that of *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water*, if not better. It also manages to capture the feel of the 2D animation of the series, and the animation looks like it replicates stop-motion animation. It even feels like it was from *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* or a video game by Hisashi Nogami. This is actually the best animation in the entire show.
3. Great voice acting as usual. What's interesting is that SpongeBob, Squidward, Patrick, and Sandy have all been given kid actors during the flashbacks to when they were at a summer camp called Camp Coral.
	* Just like the 2nd movie, SpongeBob's voice sounds so good like the first 3 seasons and seasons 8-present, sounding much better than the first movie again.
4. Decent cameo appearances from Awkwafina, and Keanu Reeves, despite their appearances doing very little for the story. Their respective characters, Otto and Sage, are enjoyable and their respective scenes stand out in comparison to others.
5. Easter eggs throughout the movie which reference specific episodes of the series, notably in one shot where one can see a robot version of SpongeBob, referencing "Welcome to the Chum Bucket". There is also one shot in which concept art of an early design for SpongeBob himself is shown on a sticky note.
	* The Patty Wagon from *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie* returns in this film.
	* The Electronics Outhouse from "Hello Bikini Bottom!" also makes a small cameo in the scene where SpongeBob is spreading flyers about Gary across Bikini Bottom.
6. Some heartwarming moments here and there, including Patrick's backstory as well as the tribute to series creator Stephen Hillenburg.
7. It has very very sad moments, such as the scene where Mr. Krabs gives up and gives Plankton the secret formula and the scene where SpongeBob's friends make a long speech about friendship and love, thus making it the most emotional SpongeBob movie ever.
8. Much like the first two movies, the characters are still likable.
9. Excellent and beautiful musical score by Hans Zimmer and Steve Mazzaro, with the best part being the intro theme.
10. The character designs for the Camp Koral SpongeBob characters are cute except for Sandy.
11. The film has plenty of funny moments, and it at least retains the series' goofy and absurd tone.
12. The musical numbers thrown in are pretty catchy and fun, especially with "Secret to the Formula" feeling like it came straight out of *The SpongeBob Musical*.
	* The number with Snoop Dogg, while not spectacular, is very well-choreographed.
13. Nice direction from Tim Hill (who was instrumental in the series' development), making this the best movie in his filmography in recent years.
14. The characters are lovable as usual. Sandy, Squidward, Mr. Krabs and even Plankton are nice in this movie since they try to save SpongeBob and Patrick.
15. A nice little montage of SpongeBob spending some time with his pet snail (Gary).
16. Funny jokes and gags existed in this film, an example is a scene where Sandy created Otto for Mr. Krabs and he thought Otto would be helpful, but eventually, Mr. Krabs and Otto keep yelling out "You're fired!" at each other.
17. The flashbacks from Camp Coral actually shows how likable SpongeBob is as a character when it comes to friendships such when he proved that Sandy can do anything and follow her dreams and the scene where SpongeBob and Patrick got their reward but when they saw Squidward cry, they eventually gave up their rewards and then gave it to Squidward.
18. Kenny G's Titanic song "My Heart Will Go On" made it into the movie giving the movie an even more extra touching moment, considering the fact the song is mostly known for sad moments.
19. The start of the film where SpongeBob pulls out the lever and then shows the brand new "Nickelodeon Movies" logo is a nice way to start off the new Nickelodeon movie series, it's pretty similar to like Pixar's intros only with the main character being shown at the start of the intro of the movie.
	* And as of this movie, SpongeBob is now the official mascot of Nickelodeon Movies. All films from Nickelodeon Movies after this (including movies like the mixed to positively-received *The Loud House Movie* and the non Nickelodeon Movies Rumble, which ditched a fake custom variant) also use this logo.
20. Plankton actually wants SpongeBob back despite getting SpongeBob to lose proving he's actually likable in this film despite being enemies for a long time in the franchise.

## Bad Qualities

This movie has enough bad qualities to have it's own page on the ScumBob wiki.