Spongebob Movie - Blog Posts
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I watched the “Saving Bikini Bottom: Sandy Cheeks” movie recently, and there’s this one part out of many that solidified the feeling that this movie was definitely a low point in the list of SpongeBob movies.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Nearby the end of the movie Sandy’s family gets called using a whistle and they easily enter in the lab that the main cast are trapped, which is weird because I thought it was established that it’s a pretty hard place to enter but idk, I wasn’t taking notes.
Anyways, the family tries to save bikini bottom all by themselves but it seems like they can’t, until they quickly come up with a plan that involves more people and then Pa Cheeks takes a steel beam and bends it as everybody watches and SpongeBob says “[sigh] he’s so masculine.” and then Pa responds “Yep, even my muscles got muscles!”. That part stood out to me for a while and I didn’t know why, until I realized that:
1. Why would they spell that out for everyone when it was already established earlier in the movie that Pa is the strongman of the circus family?
2. I’m not sure if this is a real thing, but I think some characters have a original voice to them and I think SpongeBob would never say that casually, he’d use the word ‘macho’ in that scenario. I guess the word masculine is just too precise and long for it to be in SpongeBob’s casual vocabulary?
They probably did that part just to fill the air, but they could have had it where Sandy gives out instructions to everyone, and then we see them all doing what’s needed through a quick montage to each person so then it feels like it’s a bit more build up to the escape and it’d feel much more busy instead.
BTW be aware that I might be wrong because this is based off of a fuzzy memory of the movie. Anyways, thanks for reading my first small movie criticism!!