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Alan Frank reviews The Spongebob Movie
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (U)
Directed by Paul Tibbitt
4/5
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new series The Story of Documentary Film
ALAN MORRISON welcomes a new collection from the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time
CAL McBRIDE relishes the lyrical truth of an unstable identity in an over-tidy and conventional social realist treatment
New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
ANY adults accompanying kids to oddball TV adventurer Spongebob’s second film in 3D are in luck because it’s funny, fast, and fatuous.
Animation and live action blend smartly, with Antonio Banderas hamming it up as a pirate whose quest for a magical book pits him against the eponymous undersea hero.
Meanwhile Spongebob and his cartoon colleagues are hunting an irreplaceable stolen formula for the Krabbie Patties that are the raison d’etre for the undersea fast-food joint where Spongebob works.
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