The film follows the origin of how SpongeBob met Gary the Snail, and SpongeBob's quest to rescue his pet after he is kidnapped. The film is dedicated to creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died in 2018, and also served as an executive producer on the project.

In this lively animated adventure, undersea oddball SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish friend, Patrick, embark on a quest to clear the name of Mr. Krabs, the owner of the Krusty Krab restaurant, who has been framed for stealing the crown of ocean deity King Neptune.

Its popularity made it a media franchise, the highest rated Nickelodeon series, and the most profitable property for Paramount Consumer Products.

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There is quite a lot of cartoon style violence in this movie. Most is played for comedy but some of is likely to disturb young children or need explanation. Examples include: The king is constantly ordering the execution of characters as well as inanimate objects (none are ever executed).

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SpongeBob was created by Steve Hillenburg, a former marine biologist and science teacher who went to art school to study cartooning. Like SpongeBob, Hillenburg once worked as a fry cook at a seafood restaurant. Hillenburg liked drawing marine life and thought sponges were the "oddest of all" these creatures.

Spongebob Squarepants is Nickelodeon's longest running series. Since 1999, that yellow sponge has brought smiles to kids all around the world, some of whom are now adults. The series has earned 19 total Kids' Choice Awards, 13 of which have been consecutive in the Best Cartoon category.

Approximately 50 people work together to animate and produce an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Throughout its run, the series' production has been handled domestically at Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California. The finished animation has been created overseas at Rough Draft Studios in South Korea .

Originally Answered: Why is SpongeBob SquarePants (TV series) so popular? SpongeBob was the first show to break the code of the new generation, it had enough dark/sexual humor to keep teens and adults entertained while enough child content to keep the little ones entertained.

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, like the series, was animated at Rough Draft Studios in South Korea. The animators worked semi-digitally with pencil-drawn poses that would be composited into layouts in Photoshop.

He conceived a sponge as the title character because he liked its "versatility as an animal." Hillenburg derived the character's name from Bob the Sponge, the host of his comic strip The Intertidal Zone, after changing it from SpongeBoy because of trademark issues.

A beloved cartoon character may be slowing children's mental functions, a new study led a professor at the University of Virginia says. The new study suggests that watching just nine minutes of the Nickelodeon show "SpongeBob SquarePants" can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.