This is the first Spongebob movie to make a full shift to CG animation, and it’s honestly all the lesser for it. The whole movie feels oddly restrained because of the animation switch.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jul 12, 2024

Among all of the SpongeBob movies, Sponge on the Run is easily the weakest of the three.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 16, 2022

I always welcome a hit of SpongeBob's particular brand of candy-coated insanity.

| Sep 14, 2021

One of the heirs to Looney Tunes. Witty, slow to hit its stride, but enjoyable nonetheless.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2021

In the end, the latest outing for what was once a unique and vibrant kids show ends up as little more than a brazen opportunity for the brand.

| Jun 6, 2021

Unfortunately, the film didn't feel like it really had a story. It felt like a series of sketches, and most of them weren't very funny.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 20, 2021

The move is cute but calculated, something that makes Sponge on the Run even more thin and disposable than it seems at first glance.

| Mar 19, 2021

Though not as joltingly outrageous as its predecessors, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run is a winsomely wacky good time, alive with laughs and light-hearted lunacy.

| Mar 15, 2021

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run will please fans of the original series, as well as the previous films.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 12, 2021

Some of the sections were in poor taste for a film for children

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Mar 12, 2021

Pretty basic SpongeBob ebb and flow. The animation by director Tim Hill is a top-notch rendering...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2021

The film sidelines the heart and sincerity that defined those early seasons, the 2004 film and the recent Broadway musical. However, the zany concepts and celebrity cameos are bizarre enough to be enjoyable in their own right

| Mar 11, 2021

If you're seriously into SpongeBob, it's very familiar. Not a lot new here.

| Mar 10, 2021

It may not be as refreshing a sequel as these characters deserve, but at least Sponge on the Run lets its sponge have some fun.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 9, 2021

pretty darn entertaining

| Mar 7, 2021

[An] impressive feat of animation... married to a pretty underwhelming, undercooked screenplay.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 7, 2021

There is lots of stuff to entertain the adults and make them laugh, but the same can be said for the kids out there. Farting fish anyone?

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 7, 2021

It's just as funny, ridiculous, and brilliant as you've come to expect from the Bikini Bottom native. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run stays true to SpongeBob's roots and feels mostly successful in its new three-dimensional format.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 6, 2021

There's nothing stiff or self-serious about "Sponge on the Run," which plays equally to young children and college stoners alike.

| Original Score: B | Mar 6, 2021

As another evolution in the ongoing SpongeBob universe, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is a graceful and well-executed dip of the yellow toe into 3D waters.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 6, 2021