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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #581
- Rotten Tomatoes #291
- Metacritic #306
- Letterboxd #635
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #268
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #333
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- Metacritic Critics #207
- Metacritic Audience #388
- Kinopoisk #588
- AlloCiné #592
Every rating
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 44, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 78. Critics average 72, everyone else 56.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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 adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.
Details
- Director
- Derek Drymon
- Writers
- Kaz, Marc Ceccarelli, Matt Lieberman, Pam Brady
- Based on
- a work by Stephen Hillenburg
- Released
- 16 December 2025
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $64.0M
- Box office
- $163.2M
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