Where to watch each 'SpongeBob' movie (2025)

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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

The first SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was the culmination of SpongeBob's widely beloved early seasons, as his nautical nonsense expanded into a large-scale epic adventure only fit for theaters.When Plankton (Mr. Lawrence) steals the crown ofKing Neptune (Jeffrey Tambor) and frames it on his archrival Mr. Krabs (Clancy Brown), it's up to SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) to journey from Bikini Bottom to the perilous Shell City to get it back. Their voyage is chock-full of hilarious mishapsinvolving seaweed mustaches, a bounty hunter, bubble parties, monsters, and David Hasselhoff. Siri, play "Ocean Man" by Ween because we still can't get enough of this iconic 2D-animated masterpiece.

StreamThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movieon Max.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

SpongeBob soaks up the third dimension in his second installment. InSponge out of Water, a pirate named Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas) steals the Krabby Patty secret formula via a magical book. In the absence of Krabby Patties, Bikini Bottom transforms into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, eerily beating George Miller to the apocalypse punch(Sponge out of Water was released three months before Mad Max: Fury Road). To save the town, SpongeBob and his friends must go up to the human surface and confront Burger Beard. If you loveThe SpongeBob SquarePants Moviebut not enough Squidward (Rodger Bumpass), Mr. Krabs, and Sandy Cheeks (Carolyn Lawrence), thenSponge Out of Waterbrings the fun, particularly by its climax where they become superheroes and cause a beachside Burger Beard beat down.

SteamThe SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Wateron Paramount+.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

SpongeBob's third venture features a tumbleweed with the face of Keanu Reeves, a cowboy zombie musical sequence with Snoop Dogg, flashbacks to being a kid in summer camp, and a Poseidon (Matt Berry) with a skin care problem. The stylish 3-D SpongeBob flick follows SpongeBob and Patrick as they travel to the lost Atlantic City to find SpongeBob's pet snail Gary, akin to the special "Have You Seen This Snail?" When their adventure goes wrong and the two end up in prison, Sandy, Squidward, Plankton, and Mr. Krabs follow SpongeBob to rescue him.

SteamThe Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run on Paramount+.

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024)

Move over SpongeBob, it's Sandy's time to shine. TheTexan karate-chopping, scientistsquirrel gets her own feature-length movie where she must save the day. In the Sandy Cheeks Movie, Bikini Bottom is completely scooped out of the ocean.Now it's up to Sandy and SpongeBob to travel to Texas and save their town from an evil CEO (Wanda Sykes). While on land, Sandy meets up with her extended circus family, including Randy (Johnny Knoxville), Pa (Craig Robinson), Ma, Granny, Rowdy, and Rosie Cheeks (all voiced by Grey DeLisle).

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie is now streaming exclusively on Netflix.

Plankton: The Movie (2025)

Plankton is Bikini Bottom's smallest yet most villainous organism – 1 percent evil, 99 percent hot gas. Plankton gets his big movie treatment in this SpongeBob spin-off and perthe movie's official synopsis, Plankton’s world is flipped upside down when his plan for world domination is thwarted.

Plankton: The Movie arrives exclusively on Netflix in 2025.

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025)

Next year SpongeBob returns to theaters with his fourth film, The Search for SquarePants, as Plankton wrecks havoc on Netflix. SpongeBob's latest adventure will findhim traveling to the ocean's deepest depths where he'll face off against The Flying Dutchman, the show'sgreen ghost pirate prankster, in his first big screen debut. The latest film update came from the 2024 San Diego Comic Con, where Mark Hamill revealed that he would be voicing The Search for SquarePants' version of The Flying Dutchman opposed to Brian Doyle Murray, who voices him on the show.

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants hits theaters on Dec. 19, 2025.

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