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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Count SpongeBob SquarePants among those small-screen comic characters that can't quite make the leap to the big screen. Read more
Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: It's disappointing that Hillenberg didn't use his large-screen canvas to push the possibilities of the show. Read more
Scott L. Powers, Chicago Tribune: As the theme song goes: 'If nautical nonsense be something you wish ... Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish.' The movie should have followed that mantra: too much message, not enough nonsense. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The Nickelodeon cartoon series about an oceanic sponge and his starfish sidekick washes onto the big screen with a tide of weak one-liners, exaggerated reactions, and vaguely nauseating gags. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's all pretty goofy, occasionally perplexing (I dare not ask why Patrick sports fishnet stockings and heels in the final act), and very cute, in an off-the-wall sort of way. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Retains the 2-D charm of the hugely popular Nickelodeon cartoon but adds a few tricks -- a little 3-D here, a little David Hasselhoff there. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: If you are a non-parent and you're entertained by this, wow, good for you. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Like the TV show, the movie is a beguiling mix of '60s surrealism and the inane high spirits of very early Disney (think 'Steamboat Willie'). Yet, SpongeBob has a style all its own. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: It's all innocuous, forgettable fun, but it's firmly aimed at those who find underwear endlessly funny. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Like the TV show it's based on, it's a daffy, enjoyable creation. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Like the Nickelodeon show that inspired it, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie understands that its animated hero is inherently weird, which makes him endearing and sort of chic. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The experience is such a breath of playful good humor that it's difficult not to be happy it's here. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: SpongeBob looks so slapped together and indulgently cruddy that its cheapness seems like a thumb in the eye of anyone who paid to see it. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: That SpongeBob -- absorbent and porous and utterly hilarious is he. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The best moments in his first movie outing are those that feel most TV-like, just another day in the eternally optimistic undersea society created with such contagious silliness by Stephen Hillenburg. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Being so good is what led to making the movie, and it's also the reason that many small-screen episodes are better than this big-screen venture. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: No more than a stretched-out television episode -- which is quite good enough, if you're a fan. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There are also some wild swings into surrealism. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: It's not The Incredibles, or one of those animated features that spent zillions on character design, pedigree and verisimilitude. But SpongeBob is a sweet, silly thing with a child-friendly esthetic all its own. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The big-screen rendition of SpongeBob SquarePants is a marvel of unleashed childishness, like a birthday party on the edge of spinning out of control. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's a tedious little time-killer that even a wacky, last-minute cameo by Baywatch's David Hasselhoff can't rescue. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: All of this happens in jolly animation with bright colors and is ever so much more entertaining than you are probably imagining. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: What's remarkable about The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie is how much care Hillenburg and his crew of writers, animators and actors have taken to make it undeniably movielike. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: I like my SpongeBob a little less lumbering, a little more free-associational, without that big, heavy anchor of a story structure to weigh him down. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The show, Pop-art colourful and simple in design, is delivered in 11-minute hits, two per episode. Truth be told, the full 99-minute movie does not entirely hold water; it feels like three or four good episodes connected with plot padding. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: For the most part, it's an easy and happy stretch, big on slapstick and jokes that groan rather than gross out. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Harmlessly off-the-cuff -- but facing far more pedigreed multiplex competition -- SpongeBob barely rates as OK when compared with The Incredibles. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie takes on rather too much water during its extended feature-length submersion. Read more
Ed Park, Village Voice: Could SpongeBob, all gangly goodwill and ice cream appetite, be the anarchic savior for our stressed-out times? Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: You gotta love SpongeBob. Read more
Jennifer Frey, Washington Post: It's silly, it's sweet, and it's full of all those adolescent jokes many find hard to resist. Read more