SummarySpongeBob 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 t... Read More
Directed By:Derek Drymon
Written By:Pam Brady, Matt Lieberman, Marc Ceccarelli, Kaz, Andrew Goodman, Stephen Hillenburg
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants
Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
65% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
29% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Dec 17, 2025
80
The visual gags are fresh, the jokes are funny, the world-building is disarmingly buoyant, and the musical cues, from Holiday in Cambodia to Carmina Burana, are playful.
User score
Generally Favorable
46% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
34% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
20% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Dec 25, 2025
10
La verdad no recuerdo la última vez que pasé una película entera con una sonrisa tonta en la cara. Me reí por cosas mínimas, no saben lo feliz que salí de ese cine, y con el corazón ligero. Es humor infantil bien hecho, con ritmo, cariño y una animación preciosa.
Dec 25, 2025
10
Keeps kids engaged while having great plot filled with silliness and hidden jokes. The character’s grow well. Even in the action scenes to keep kids engaged were filled with details to laugh at.
Dec 18, 2025
75
Everybody involved seems to be having a blast making this latest “SpongeBob” a funny, fast-paced pleasure.
Dec 19, 2025
63
It might not be the best of the bunch, but the infectious childlike spirit (and intestinal fortitude) remains firmly intact.
Dec 27, 2025
60
Whether its spitballing silliness will linger when the lights come up is debatable, but it’s a solid SpongeBob movie.
Dec 23, 2025
50
“Search for SquarePants,” while it has amusing moments, is mostly SpongeBob treading water.
Dec 18, 2025
30
All of its head-spinning action has a stultifying effect. At all times, the film seems afraid that it’ll lose its audience’s attention, barraging us with the mindlessly zany to hold our engagement.
Jan 18, 2026
9
A truly beautiful movie! I saw it with my family. An adventure full of laughter and touching moments! Spongebob returns to his roots. A film that soars. Truly beautiful.
Jan 7, 2026
6
Os produtores têm que entender que filme é diferente de animação, isso aqui é cinema, de modo que essa produção mais parece um capítulo estendido da série de animação, o que torna cansativo lá pelas tantas. Ainda assim, gracioso.
Jan 5, 2026
6
Divertido e muito engraçado, mas seguro demais. Em Busca da Calça Quadrada funciona como passatempo e garante boas risadas, porém repete fórmulas já vistas na franquia e carece de emoção ou inovação. Um filme agradável, embora longe de ser memorável.
Feb 18, 2026
5
I stayed awake for this movie for about 30-ish minutes and then fell asleep. Sorry, as a long-time SpongeBob fan, I am just Tired. Nothing beats the First film; that's how it will be until the end of time.
Not even the animation can save this film because they did it all wrong.
Soft, undetailed 3D Animation is just so bad that I had to fix it myself by adding film grain and sharpening lines to make the picture look defined, like the OG cartoons' style. All of this tells me that not even the director, animators, hell, the editors in the backroom, took the time to at least merge a 2D cartoon with 3D Definition. henceforth 5/10, half right and half wrong, not even the story is interesting...I couldn't keep my eyes open thats how boring it was, what a let down. But is this better than the Sand Cheeks movie??? Yes, but that doesn't say much. BTW, the film retconned the first film about Songebob not being Brave, do the writers even pay attention to the universe? Paramount, Nickalodean Just Shut Up and give me Tin Tin 2 already. Make sure that the top priority is for Peter Jackson and Spielberg to nail that film, because if it ends up like Megamind 2, there will be a nuke that goes off in the South of Africa. That's all...
Jan 20, 2026
0
Worst movie of all time, even worse for a children’s movie. That’s pretty much all I can say.
Production Company:
- Paramount Animation
- Nickelodeon Movies
- Domain Entertainment (II)
- Media Rights Capital (MRC)
- United Plankton Pictures
Release Date:Dec 19, 2025
Duration:1 h 28 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:Arrrr you ready?
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Awards
Annie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Art Directors Guild
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Audio Society, USA
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