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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Revisit: A Cute Threequel Feature That Clearly Ran Out of Ideas

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  Copyright © Paramount Pictures, Paramount+, Nickelodeon Movies, United Plankton Pictures Title : The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Director : Tim Hill Based on : Characters by Stephen Hillenburg Release Date : March 4, 2021     The ups and downs of the current SpongeBob movies will determine the franchise's legacy. It is a sure thing that the series is getting milked after the original  SpongeBob SquarePants Movie . Even though we can mostly get bad things from the post-Hillenburg era, we can also get a few good things sometimes, like Plankton: The Movie . The question right now is this: is this movie any good? Today, we will revisit The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run , the third SpongeBob movie that was released on video-on-demand as a premium Paramount+ offering. For a good reason, the movie flopped (domestically in the US and Canada) with a $4.8 million box office gross against a $60 million budget, which is thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic in the past. ...