Spongebob SquarePants 2

[Xenos]

Off-topic to get it off my chest:

Don't even remind me... I had this friend who was a massive fanboy of iCarly and similar shows in Nick. But not fanboy by loving it a lot, fanboy in the sense he would be rude and violent with anybody who disliked the show... and said video games were a waste of time.

So I'm not really a fan of this new movie. While I throughly enjoyed the later season, I truly think it's time to end it. But not with a killer finale; with a subtle cancellation. Think about it. A finale would leave our hearts sad and the show sore. But many cartoons which simply ended are still cult classics. I feel bad mostly for my dad, who would cry if there was such an ending to the show... and that's really bad.

Is it? I would love for the series to end on a high note with a fantastic finale movie for the yellow sponge, honestly.

I really don't want them to just suddenly cancel it because a series like Spongebob just wouldn't feel right going off the radar without a blip.

And I can't really tell how your Dad could react, but maybe on the other side he'll cry because Spongebob ended on such a good note? I think older fans of the series could appreciate this move for that very reason so much more.

[Nintendoga]

Randomly thought about the show and was wondering if the Season 4 writers could really pull off a good movie. So I just decided to watch some episodes/clips on Youtube.

Came across (weird) ones like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZM6t6jU8k&feature=related

and

Just thought I would share with my class.

[Xenos]

OH GOD MY EYES.

What the fuck was THAT?! I mean, was that supposed to be funny? I could see little kids being scared shitless of some of those faces!

I could see old episodes doing that a lot better honestly, with how sometimes they had those photo-realistic shots of certain things to put emphasis on it. This could have definitely worked with that, and they turned it down from 11.

[T-Min]

Randomly thought about the show and was wondering if the Season 4 writers could really pull off a good movie. So I just decided to watch some episodes/clips on Youtube.

Came across (weird) ones like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZM6t6jU8k&feature=related

And that, friends, is why I stopped watching this show. Post-season 3 SpongeBob is even worse than post-season 2 Ren & Stimpy, with all of the same faults. It thinks that if it's WEIRD and ZANY and CARAAAAZY, it's automatically funny and can thus forsake such inconsequential things as witty writing and comedic timing.

I do not have high expectations for this film.

Edited November 26, 2012 by T-Man

[Echidna Adventurer CC14]

>Assumes that all humor is identical to the contents of a three minute clip.

[Shrek]

>Assumes that all humor is identical to the contents of a three minute clip.

The sad thing is, this clip pretty much indicates everything the series is about anymore. Loads of grossout humor and poor attempts at slapstick, with recycled plots and poor characterization everywhere. Do I even need to remind everyone of this?

[Emperor Robrainiac]

The sad thing is, this clip pretty much indicates everything the series is about anymore. Loads of grossout humor and poor attempts at slapstick, with recycled plots and poor characterization everywhere. Do I even need to remind everyone of this?

This pretty much what I think of the series nowadays... Blech, what possessed them to make that and the toenail scene so grotesque? It's as if they're trying to imitate Ren and Stimpy and doing a very bad job at it. The recycling of plots is another thing that annoyed me for quite sometime.. I believe they reused the "Spongebob becoming more assertive" plot as of recently. And don't get me started on the characterization... I believe Mrs. Puff actually attempts to kill Spongebob in one episode and that really didn't sit well with me.

While post season 3 eps have given me a laugh a very few times (If only for how 'lolsorandom' they try to be, such as "Sorry for the Scabbies," and "The Power WIthin.") I've really grown out of Spongebob, only watching it if I want some sound in my quiet room.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Lyra Heartstrings

[Echidna Adventurer CC14]

The sad thing is, this clip pretty much indicates everything the series is about anymore. Loads of grossout humor and poor attempts at slapstick, with recycled plots and poor characterization everywhere. Do I even need to remind everyone of this?

Eh, I disagree. That was two seasons ago and there really hasn't been as much of it recently. I've definitely found stuff like "Mermaid Man Begins" and "Bubble Buddy Returns" to be a lot funnier than "The Splinter" or "Giant Squidward."

Edited November 26, 2012 by Christmascontrol14

[Shrek]

Eh, I disagree. That was two seasons ago and there really hasn't been as much of it recently. I've definitely found stuff like "Mermaid Man Begins" and "Bubble Buddy Returns" to be a lot funnier than "The Splinter" or "Giant Squidward."

You're completely right, there's a definite improvement in the most recent episodes. Though, they still can't match the originals in terms of quality and writing. A good example is "Demolition Doofus", where Mrs. Puff purposely tries to kill Spongebob, which is incredibly out of character for her.

One of the things that made the original series great was all of the creative input, some of the best cartoonists and writers out there worked on the show and many of them went on to make their own series, like C.H. Greenblatt, who had a large role working on some of the most popular episodes and went on to make his own series "Chowder", among many other people who went down the same road. The originals felt like a labor of love and many creative minds came together to make a single episode, while the newest installments feel lifeless and on many occasions rely on Grossout humor (The Splinter) or Nostalgia (Bubble Buddy Returns, which has almost nothing to do with Bubble Buddy) to carry on the series.

I'll give them credit, some of the Post-Movie episodes had their moments. "The Power Within" in particular was pretty hilarious, showing the the series can still be good if they actually tried. But even if the series improves to the point where it can match the originals in terms of quality, that will hardly make a difference because so many bad episodes have left a stain on the series that will never go away. People are still going to associate the show with the worst episodes and how hard it's fallen.

[Milo]

So here are the credits of the film so far.

Director: Paul Tibbitt

Writers: Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger

Producer: Mary Parent

Executive Producer: Stephen Hillburg

Turns out I was wrong about them having Stephen Hillburg (the original creator of the show and director of the movie) as the director, he's instead merely the "Executive Producer," from which I have a bad feeling that it will more or less be the equivalent of Joseph Barbera's "Creative Consultant" role for Tom and Jerry: The Movie. >_>

Although Paul Tibbitt is also one of the writers/artists of the pre-movie episodes and the movie, in later/current seasons he now only servs as supervising producer and executive producer for new seasons.

Mixed feelings for Mary Parent-her career as a (executive) producer has been hit and miss, but her most recent film was Role Models, though, and her current roles as a producer for two upcoming films sounds promising (Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim and Darren Aronofsky's Noah).

The writers don't seem to have worked on the show before, but they have doe other work. I'll bring it up in another post later.

[Da Blu Hedgie]

...WHY DIDN'T I HEAR ABOUT THIS, I'd LOVE a 2nd movie!!! ^^

[super saiyan weegee]

It's nice to know that Stephen and Paul are influencing the movie.

[Place]

New trailer out, tells us butt-fucking nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqCYV9sTRJs

[Chili Dawg]

Wow that really is buttfucking nothing.

 

Like even by teaser standards holy shit.

[Ferno]

New trailer out, tells us butt-fucking nothing.

 

[Trailer]

 

The teaser for the original movie didn't tell us much either:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2So1QoUBpI

 

Still more entertaining though..

Edited July 22, 2013 by Inferno

[Debug Ring]

Huh. That was just clips from the first one... Nothing at all...

 

 

Though, when they say "The greatest story ever told... Again", that doesn't shout "Originality!" at me... But of course this is nothing, just bad word choice? Certainly think so.

[KHCast]

I get the feeling that they are just going to be copying a whole lot from the first one and just add a few things to make it "different."

[Stritix]

I quite enjoyed the first movie. Hopefully the writing is better than it is in the newer episodes.

[Place]

I quite enjoyed the first movie. Hopefully the writing is better than it is in the newer episodes.

Don't get your hopes up, a good lot of the modern writers will be returning for the sequel. This COULD be nice, but that loveless trailer so far seems to prove otherwise.

[Stritix]

Don't get your hopes up, a good lot of the modern writers will be returning for the sequel. This COULD be nice, but that loveless trailer so far seems to prove otherwise.

 

Yikes. I'll still check out the movie, but this certainly lowers my expectations.

[Gabz Girl]

I liked the first movie, but I don't know if this one will be any good. At least the first one still had the original writers of the show...in fact Spongebob went downhill right after the movie!

[Milo]

New trailer out, tells us butt-fucking nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqCYV9sTRJs

 

 

Also it's quite obvious this trailer was made ages ago, why would they still be using the former Paramount logo instead of the new one? Same goes for the brief "This following trailer is for _____ audiences" screencap. there's literally not one iota of effort or creativity put into this compared to the teaser of the first. What was the point of throwing up some old hat clips from the first film and rush it out as a "teaser"? To generate some quick early hype? Or considering the rumors that the animation will be CG and whatnot, to avoid starting a internet shitstorm? This could easily be mistaken as a  fake trailer (and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was).

[Iggy]

There was once a foal born in a barn. People were entertained by the funny things the foal did, and they loved it. They foal grew up and became a horse that did funny things. The master of the horse made people pay to come and see it do funny things. He got very rich off of the horse. Over time, the horse became old. The funny tricks he used to do effortlessly in his youth became painful and exhausting. The number of tricks he could preform without being in intense pain lessened day by day.

One day, he got his foot stuck in a rabbit hole and twisted it something awful. There was nothing the vet could do, and the horse could barely walk. He couldn't do tricks anymore. People stopped coming. The master refused to end its suffering, so the horse lived several more years in horrible pain. Then one day the horse's body finally couldn't take it anymore and the horse died. The master of the horse refused to believe that his money-making horse was dead, so he started beating it with a stick.

Spongebob is the horse. Nickelodeon is the master of the horse.

Edited August 28, 2013 by Shewhorantstoomuch

[Jacky]

That's clearly a fan-made trailer guys, the poor aftereffects and narration should be a dead giveaway, the fact that it's from october of last year and the fact that it's the only upload of that trailer on the entire internet are also pretty big clues.

[Dizcrybe]

That would explain the bad music.