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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025)

Animated Family
Rated PG
88 min.
Release Date
December 19, 2025
Director
Derek Drymon
Writer
Pam Brady, Matt Lieberman, Marc Ceccarelli, Kaz Brady
Cast
Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, George Lopez, Isis “Ice Spice” Gaston, Arturo Castro, Sherry Cola, Regina Hall, Mark Hamill
Running Time
88 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG for rude humor, some thematic elements, and mild language

What is The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants about?

SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom friends set sail in their biggest, all-new, can’t miss cinematic event ever…The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman – a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate – on a seafaring comedy-adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

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MOVIE REVIEW

As we walked to the press screening of the new SpongeBob SquarePants movie, subtly titled The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, my seven-year-old daughter declared, “We should go see Zootopia 2 again instead.” I said no, and suffered from my poor decision for the next 90 minutes or four hours, I can’t tell which.  Full movie review »