The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

I don't know where to even begin. We decided to watch the second SpongeBob movie because it had gotten positive reviews and I had very much enjoyed the first. (To this day I believe it to be the best TV show to movie adaptation apart from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya but that can be debated). Anyway I was still skeptical as I feel like with the Simpsons,  the show had been steeply declining in quality for at least the last ten years. But alas I still call myself a fan and always hope it can still entertain.  I was not disappointed. 

The film is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen and to begin to describe the plot would take too long and would be kind of unnecessary.

The plot made absolutely no sense whatsoever and if I could hardly follow it I can only have sympathy for very young viewers. But it is very, very funny and the incredible animation does that thing that I feel made so many people fall in love with SpongeBob so many years ago, the animation makes the gags funnier. SpongeBob SquarePants is an example of a visual gag masterpiece and is a defining example of why in cartoons the visuals create half the comedy. 

I also heard that the creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show had a creative foot in this film and through watching the whole thing it's not hard to see his insane, borderline disturbing style in so many of the scenes. It's also very dark at times which for a film adaptation of a 'supposedly' kids show you might think is strange, but another thing SpongeBob is able to do so successfully is take quite grown up elements and make them entertaining to all ages, for example there is a post apocalyptic theme that runs throughout the movie that's very much spoofing Mad Max, a typically adult classic film.

The visuals cannot be understated,  throughout this film the animation is stunning and makes any animator want to go work for Nicktoon movies as throughout it's constantly changing.  What I admire is that it yes there is some CGI animation in there towards the end, but for the most part it's animated in a traditional 2D style that is consistent with the first movie and the TV series. I could be wrong about this but I also thought I saw some stop motion animation in there to. 

Either way it's bonkers but a treat.