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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #510
- IMDb #511
- Google retired #325
- Rotten Tomatoes #331
- Metacritic #268
- Letterboxd #589
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #249
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #421
- Metacritic Critics #230
- Metacritic Audience #290
- Douban #159
- Kinopoisk #605
- AlloCiné #595
- Trakt #507
Every rating
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 42, highest is Google on 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When the secret formula for Krabby Patties is stolen, the entire underwater city of Bikini Bottom descends into chaos. SpongeBob and his friends must venture to the forbidden surface world to retrieve the recipe from a pirate burger chef who now possesses it.
Details
- Directors
- Mike Mitchell, Paul Tibbitt
- Writers
- Glenn Berger, Jonathan Aibel, Paul Tibbitt, Stephen Hillenburg
- Based on
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Released
- 28 January 2015
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $74.0M
- Box office
- $325.2M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 43rd Annie Awards 2015 | Animated Effects in an Animated Production | Brice Mallier, Paul Buckley, Brent Droog, Alex Whyte, Jonothan Freisler | Nominee |
| 43rd Annie Awards 2015 | Voice Acting in an Animated Feature | Tom Kenny | Nominee |
| British Academy Children's Awards 2015 | BAFTA Kids' Vote - Feature Film | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Nominee |
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2015 | Favorite Animated Movie | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Nominee |
| Nickelodeon Mexico Kids' Choice Awards 2015 | Favorite Movie | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Nominee |
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×| Animated Effects in an Animated Production | Brice Mallier, Paul Buckley, Brent Droog, Alex Whyte, Jonothan Freisler | Nominee |
| Voice Acting in an Animated Feature | Tom Kenny | Nominee |
| BAFTA Kids' Vote - Feature Film | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Nominee |
| Favorite Animated Movie | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Nominee |
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