6.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
After SpongeBob's beloved pet snail Gary is snail-napped, he and Patrick embark on an epic adventure to the Lost City of Atlantic City to bring Gary home.
Starring: Tom Kenny (I), Clancy Brown, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Mr. LawrenceAnimation | 100% |
Family | 91% |
Comedy | 67% |
Adventure | 31% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Danish: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Norwegian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Finnish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Swedish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish=España and Latinoamérica
English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
DVD copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Writer/Director Tim Hill (Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, Alvin and the Chipmunks) brings a third installment into the zany, colorful, and underwater world of SpongeBob SquarePants in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, a feature film following up with the same core characters from the first two pictures, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (which Hill co-wrote) and Sponge Out of Water. This film is sure to please fans; all of the favorites return, some new characters play a big role, and some live action stars make flesh-and-blood appearances alongside the animated characters. It's not a particularly important film but it's a solid diversion that series fans should love.
Paramount brings The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run to Blu-ray with a reference-class 1080p transfer. The picture is beautiful. The colors are vivid, the details are tack sharp, and the entire experience is visually sublime. Colors leap off the screen with unflappable tonal accuracy and screen commanding dominance. There's nothing but endlessly bold, exhilarating examples of yellow, red, green, blue, every color one can imagine within the SpongeBob universe. Animated details are tack-sharp and clarity never falters. The live action segments are beautiful, particularly looking at the earthy terrain, the woods inside the saloon, and the zombie makeup on various human actors. Black levels are terrific, too, and the picture reveals no source anomalies of encode failures. Fans are going to be delighted with this one.
Listeners will feel fully submerged into Bikini Bottom courtesy of a satisfying DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The presentation springs alive with plenty of essential details presented with the utmost clarity and positional excellence. Surrounds are regularly engaged, sometimes prominently, sometimes more subtly and discretely, but always in balance and to the track's benefit. Musical stretch is excellent and clarity is superb. High yield definition extends to various sound effects, too. Dialogue is clear and precise with a firm front-center location output.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run includes several bonuses, outlined and reviewed below. A DVD copy of the film is included with
purchase. A digital copy is not. This release ships with a non-embossed slipcover.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is a charming little time waster that just might satisfy general audiences looking for a colorful escape into another world. Hardcore franchise fans will enjoy the look and tone and banter but might be turned off by a generically straightforward plot. Paramount's Blu-ray delivers near perfect video and audio presentations while also offering a healthy allotment of bonus content. Worth a look.
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