The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie [WS]

Overview

"The big-screen adaptation a popular animated television show The Spongebob Squarepants Movie arrives on DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. French, English, and Spanish soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1 while a second English soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. A handful of featurettes give people an idea of how the film came together. A preview of a Spongebob video game allows viewers to take control of their favorite underwater characters. Fans of the show will not be disappointed by this DVD."

Product Details

Release Date:	03/01/2005
UPC:	0097363420941
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG
Source:	Paramount
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:27:00
Sales rank:	44,137

Special Features

Closed Caption;The absorbing tale behind The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ; The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 20-minute animatic featuring the voice of creator Stephen Hillenburg; "Saving the Surf" featurette; Special "Undersea" featurette, "Case of the Sponge'Bob'," with voice-over by Stephen Hillenburg & Jean-Michel Cousteau; "Submarine" teaser trailer; SpongeBob SquarePants THQ game demo

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Kenny	SpongeBob/Gary,Spongyabob hangja/
Bill Fagerbakke	Patrick Star,Patrick Star hangja/
Mr. Lawrence	Plankton,Plankton hangja/
Clancy Brown	Mr. Krabs
Carolyn Lawrence	Sandy,Sandy Cheeks hangja/
Rodger Bumpass	Squidward,Voices
Jill Talley	Karen, The Computer Wife / Old Lady
Mary Jo Catlett	Mrs. Poppy Puff,Mrs. Puff hangja/
Jeffrey Tambor	King Neptune,Actor
Scarlett Johansson	Mindy,Mindy hangja/
Alec Baldwin	Dennis,Dennis hangja/
David Hasselhoff	Himself
Kristopher Logan	Squinty the Pirate,Voices
D.P. Fitzgerald	Bonesy the Pirate,Voices
Cole S. McKay	Scruffy the Pirate (as Cole McKay),Voices
Dylan Haggerty	Voices,Stitches the Pirate
Bart McCarthy	Voices,Captain Bart the Pirate
Henry Kingi	Voices,Inky the Pirate
Gerard Griesbaum	Voices,Fingers the Pirate
Aaron Hendry	Voices,Tangles the Pirate/Cyclops Diver
Maxie Santillan Jr.	Voices,Gummy the Pirate
John Siciliano	Voices,Pokey the Pirate
David Stifel	Voices,Cookie the Pirate
Alex Baker	Voices,Voices,Martin the Pirate
Robin Russell	Voices,Sniffy the Pirate
Tommy Schooler	Voices,Salty the Pirate
Ben Wilson	Voices,Voices,Fish #3/Tough Fish #1, Victor
Jose Zelaya	Voices,Dooby the Pirate
Mageina Tovah	Voices,Usher
Chris Cummins	Voices,Concession Guy
Todd Duffey	Voices,Concession Guy
Sirena Irwin	Voices
Lori Alan	Voices
Carlos Alazraqui	Voices
Joshua Seth	Voices
Tim Blaney	Voices
Neil Ross	Voices
Mike Bell	Voices
Jim Wise	Voices
Paul Zies	Voices,Upper Deck the Pirate
Jasmine Martin	Pizza Fishie
Spongebob Squarepants	Actor
Gregor Narholz	Composer
Karyn Rachtman	Composer

Technical Credits

Stephen Hillenburg

Derek Drymon

Tim Hill

Kent Osborne

Aaron Springer

Paul Tibbitt

Stephen Hillenburg	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Derek Drymon	Screenwriter,Producer,Executive Producer
Tim Hill	Screenwriter
Kent Osborne	Screenwriter,Director
Aaron Springer	Screenwriter
Paul Tibbitt	Screenwriter
Albie Hecht	Producer,Executive Producer
Julia Pistor	Producer
Gina Shay	Producer,Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

If the films based on Saturday Night Live sketches have taught us anything, it is that the expansion in running time from ten minutes to feature length can drain the life out of a character. Not so with cartoon star SpongeBob Squarepants, who remains ever buoyant and absorbing in his big-screen debut, which gleefully captures the unsinkable lunacy of Nickelodeon's signature franchise. Consider the wholly gratuitous live action prologue, in which a band of pirates excitedly open a treasure chest that contains a magnificent booty: tickets to the SpongeBob Squarepants Movie. As they set a course for the theater, they sing the SpongeBob theme. The rest of the film rides the giddy crest of that wave as our yellow and porous hero embarks on a Tolkienean quest to retrieve the crown of King Neptune (regally voiced by Jeffrey Tambor). The evil Plankton, following "Plan Z," has stolen said crown and framed his restaurateur archrival, Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob's miserly and avaricious employer. Though Krabs has passed over SpongeBob for a deserved promotion, nothing dampens SpongeBob's spirits. Determined to prove he is not just a kid, he leaves Bikini Bottom, accompanied by his faithful starfish friend Patrick and watched over by Neptune's compassionate daughter, Mindy (Scarlett Johansson), who plays Blue Fairy to SpongeBob's Pinocchio. Longtime SpongeBob viewers will lament the scant screen time of crabby Squidward and Sandy Cheeks. And stricter parents may carp at the crude humor, but it's nothing kids haven't giggled over in the Captain Underpants books. One sequence, in which SpongeBob, captured by a purveyor of nautical tchotchkes, slowly dehydrates, may disturb younger viewers. But helping to keep the movie afloat is Alec Baldwin in menacing voice as Dennis, whom Plankton has hired to squash the Sponge. And all hail David Hasselhoff, appearing big as life as his Baywatch self. In all its sublime silliness, The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie provides all the nautical nonsense anyone could wish for.