The little yellow sponge has a purity, an innocence that is admired and identified with. Bob remains gloriously flat, with the clear outlines, simple detail, and bright, bright colors that never stray too far from the primary and tertiary parts of the color wheel. This is unlike Nickelodeon's other films, where there is some attempt to add a bit more to the flatness of the episodic product.
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Or not.Īs noted above, the artwork is basically lifted intact from the television show without attempt to give it more depth or detail. This is not to say the show is some sort of Beckett for Kids (speaking of: ever see Grover do "Waiting for Elmo" on " Monsterpiece Theater"? Freakin' rocked), but one wonders what Dali might of thought. It's not the intrusion of the absurd into "real" life that drives the show but the intrusion of "real" life into the Bob's absurd undersea world that drives the show.Īnd unlike Ralph Backshi's brilliant and underrated " The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse," where he was intentionally trying to inject surrealism into the world of the (at that time already waning) Saturday morning cartoon, it feels natural in Bob's world. True, Bob is a fry cook at a burger joint ( The Krusty Krab) and there are analogues to cars (fish and other underwater denizens of the deep drive boats along ocean roads) or bikes (Squidward's has little paddle wheels in place of tires)but that only serves to increase the surreality and silliness. While Rocko was a fairly normal (for a wallaby in a Hawaiian shirt) bloke who lived in a world fairly similar to ours where surreal things sometimes happened to him, when Hillenburg gave his creations life, the real world was left far, far away. "Pineapples? Under the sea? Get out of here, you're wasting my time!"īob rose from the ashes of Nickelodeon's brilliant and underrated "Rocko's Modern Life" on which Bikini Bottom creator Stephen Hillenburg worked (writing, directing, producing). So it's come to this: Bob comes to the big screen Only much, much bigger and surrounding you in stereo. This is Bob, just like he is on the little magic box at home.
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There is very little attempt to make this any more than an extended version of the show, so don't expect fancy shadow rendering or computer animation. That said, it's still lightly and goofily entertaining enough that a gloomy Squidward could enjoy it when he takes his kids or nieces and nephews to the afternoon matinee. This is a film unabashedly made to appeal to children and those who still kindle that flame. Those who "don't get it" are not going to be enlightened. Fans of the show know what they are in for and will pretty much get what they expected. But then you probably won't be the sort of sea dog who goes in for Nickelodeon movies anyway.
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But if you be not a fan of deep sea silliness, marine mirth, and half-naked sponges, then ye won't be converted. If you be a fan of such sea shenanigans, such crustacean comedy, such nautical nonsense, then ye should not be disappointed. This here be the quick and dirty salty sea dog review of the greatest film about things absorbant and yellow and porous ever made.