Plankton: The Movie

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Plankton: The Movie

2025

1h 27m

Adventure

Fantasy

Comedy

Animation

Kids & Family

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Plankton's tangled love story with his sentient computer wife goes sideways when she takes a stand and decides to destroy the world without him.

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

The movie has its moments (some of the songs are fun, as always), but like Plankton’s efforts at taking over the world, it’s ultimately a disappointment.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 8, 2025

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Shawn Edwards

Fox 4 Kansas City

The premise is actually just zany enough to be fun.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 20, 2025

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Cole Groth

FandomWire

This spinoff perfectly represents SpongeBob SquarePants’ lowly state combined with the weak quality of Netflix’s catalog.

Rated: 5/10

Mar 18, 2025

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Mat Brunet

AniMat's Review (YouTube)

Plankton may not have the secret formula to a great movie, but his love for his wife is just enough to make this visit to Bikini Bottom worth it.

Rated: 6/10

Mar 14, 2025

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Jennifer Green

Common Sense Media

This series spin-off has a built-in audience for its beloved characters as well as some positive themes, but the evil robot plot could overwhelm the youngest (and annoy the oldest) audiences.

Mar 11, 2025

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John Serba

Decider

It’s crammed with jokes ranging from stupid-for-their-own-sake to self-aware.

Mar 8, 2025

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Mary J

I can't understand how this movie has a 77% rating; it certainly doesn't deserve such a high score. The humor fell flat, and the callbacks, classic soundtrack, and references felt like an insult to the audience. They explicitly were trying to exploit nostalgia rather than deliver genuine laughs or engaging moments. This movie was supposed to be about plankton, but it features Karen more than it does him. All of his backstory details also do not follow the background between him and Mr. Krabs from the show. It's hard to believe this movie was made by people who've seen the show or worked on it. Also, why is Pearl hanging out with 30-50-year-olds? Lol.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Gary O

This movie feels like Classic SpongeBob, they toned down the over the top facial expression like that in the sandy movie, the plot was actually coherent and surprisingly deep, the songs were all good, and the humor was nice. It’s not perfect obviously, 2004 will always be king, but this movie is on par with if not better than out of water. And even though the 3d animation wasn’t amazing, they made up for it with 3 different animation styles.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Puppies H

No buts,it's incredible

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/28/25

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Antonio R

Love itttt. Good movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/28/25

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Jonathan O

A fun musical SpongeBob i mean plankton and the animation looks fantastic and stylish.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/27/25

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Anna F

No le llega a la segunda, ni a la primera, pero es muy divertida y vale la pena ver.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/26/25

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Dave Needham

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Mr. Lawrence

Plankton

Jill Talley

Karen

Tom Kenny

SpongeBob

Bill Fagerbakke

Patrick

Mary Jo Catlett

Mrs. Puff

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Synopsis

Plankton's tangled love story with his sentient computer wife goes sideways when she takes a stand and decides to destroy the world without him.

Director: Dave Needham
Screenwriter: Mr. Lawrence, Chris Viscardi, Kaz
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Nickelodeon Movies
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Kids & Family
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 7, 2025
Runtime: 1h 27m

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