So the third SpongeBob SquarePants movie was released on Netflix internationally, and a domestic release is due in the oncoming months. With the Netflix release in mind, clips of it have surfaced online and have gotten generally mixed reactions (though not through the like/dislike ration which veers to the positives.)
Any negative comment comes from either the "I diss family movies so I can act like I know shit" crowd, and the "muh loor" crowd.
For perspective, a few months back Nickelodeon announced they were working on a spin-off for SpongeBob SquarePants, and this movie would be a lead-in to it. I was against the spin-off, and I still am even if it's not to the same degree.
A reason why the spin-off was so infamous was because SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg made it clear he didn't want one to happen... then it did a little after he died. So this wound up striking a cord with people who assumed they operated on the same frequency as Stephen.
Anyway, the most I saw of the negative comments were people bitching about how it violated established lore. You see one comment like it, you've seen them all.
Why is this a big deal to me in spite of what I said about Kamp Koral? Sponge on the Run feels like it has some substance to it. It's a fundamentally flawed movie that's bearable to sit through. Obviously it's the worst of the SpongeBob movie trilogy, but there're far worse movies, then and now. I'd prefer this to the later SpongeBob seasons, and if you say otherwise you're clout chasing.
You can easily combat the canon violations through separations, treat this, Kamp Koral and all else as a self-contained property. If a movie is good enough to inspire that train of thought, people are overreacting.
Compared to the proposed show, if the camp aspect would've been kept to this movie it would be fine, there'd be no issue because if the show followed the movie cannon, there'd be a Krusty Krab 2.
Save the outrage for the spin-off, the movie is not worth that level of negative energy.
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