Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie 2024 Movie Review

I will start by saying that I think the show SpongeBob SquarePants that started in 1999 and is currently still airing with new episodes is a great animated show from Nickelodeon, along the great first movie titled The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), a good and entertaining enough follow-up sequel called The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), and an entertaining enough third film titled The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2021); despite it taking a while to come out, I was still interested in a Sandy Cheeks spinoff movie being released. The Netflix SpongeBob spinoff movie titled Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024) had good voice acting, good 3D animation, bland live-action performances, random scenes that had little to do with the plot, cringey moments, and an occasional out of nowhere song number that felt out of place; the movie had funny moments and the original voice actors are still great at voicing their characters, but it was not as good as the other three films because of how unfocused it got, and the mediocre villain was too weird and it got a little hard to watch because of her cringey over the top performance.

Carolyn Lawrence is still great as Sandy making her a likable character, along with SpongeBob also voiced great by Tom Kenny, they are both entertaining to watch even with some of the weird dialogue and things they do; Sandy having a connection to this facility in Texas was a good setup for the adventure and though there are some moments of expected implausibility, her using science and knowledge to save Bikini Bottom was not bad. SpongeBob is dragged into this to help Sandy save everyone because he was the only other person remaining, but he does have an occasional funny line and he is entertaining to watch, but I would have liked it if he had a little bit more to do instead of acting like an idiot most of the time; also the rest of the characters like Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, and Plankton are still voiced well by Clancy Brown, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, and Mr. Lawrence despite not being in the movie that much and having an occasional scene here or there. Lastly, Sandy’s family was entertaining enough to watch with some good voice acting from actors Craig Robinson, Johnny Knoxville, and voice actor Grey Griffin; they did get annoying at times, but it was at least to learn more about Sandy’s past with her family and why she went to Bikini Bottom in the first place.

The weird villain named Sue Nahmee played by Wanda Sykes giving an over-the-top performance as this person takes Bikini Bottom for a weird and stupid plan I was not expecting going in, and the way they show her backstory was very awkward and made me question what I was looking at multiple points in the movie; I will also say that the live-action performances from the human scientist side characters were not that good making them sound wooden. The 3D animation was not bad, and it worked well with the live action environments, and there were occasional funny moments and lines of dialogue, but there were quite a few random moments in the movie that do not lead anywhere and makes me question what is going on; also, there were very sudden moments of song numbers for this movie that is not a musical, with these songs either being cut off in the middle or they are played in their entirety with no reason to be in the movie.

The SpongeBob spinoff movie titled Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024) had good voice acting, good 3D animation, bland live-action performances, random scenes that had little to do with the plot, cringey moments, and an occasional out of nowhere song number that felt out of place; the movie had funny moments and the original voice actors are still great at voicing their characters, but it was not as good as the other three films because of how unfocused it got, which is why I can understand why there are people not liking this movie. Though this movie is not completely terrible since I was entertained while watching it, I am not going to tell you to rush to Netflix to watch this, because this one is not as good as it could have been; not as good as the other three SpongeBob films, but it was still enjoyable enough.