Plankton: The Movie

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Plankton: The Movie

2025

1h 27m

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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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Calum Baker

Radio Times

SpongeBob Squarepants's diminutive nemesis, Sheldon J Plankton, gets a musical spin-off feature that starts well but runs out of nautical nonsense by the final act.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 1, 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

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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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Kyle C

This movie makes absolutely no sense. The animation was lazy and didn't feel right, halfway into the movie I felt like I wasn't watching anything related to previous SpongeBob movies. When Plankton and SpongeBob entered the Gal Pal hideout, plankton basically got high at started hallucinating about his wife Karen, that scene was horrifying. At the end of the "movie", plankton literally had the secret formula in his hands, which was the reason for the whole disaster of a movie, but he basically said "nah forget that, I want you Karen." and threw it away. Basically to summarize the movie, plankton wants the secret formula, plankton makes Karen sad, SpongeBob hypnotizes him, Karen becomes large evil robot and steals formula, plankton don't want formula anymore, End of movie. This movie is just a sad excuse to continue making 3d, ugly animated SpongeBob movies. Don't watch if you want to keep your respect to SpongeBob. Idk how it has high ratings, please help me fight back against the botted reviews 🙏

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/27/25

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Tim M

What creativity is pumped into Plankton: The Movie's narrative and humor doesn't extend to the cheap animation, only marginally better than a bucket of chum.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

04/26/25

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Tyler S

It was alright. Originally, I thought the plot started out good, but kinda went all over the place after. Had some laughs, and the visuals were pretty fun. The movie just felt like a long drawn out cut scene from a video game.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

04/23/25

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Ryan P

this movies plot is a bit confusing, but it’s actually a pretty good watch. it’s leagues better then the shitfest that was sponge on the run and the sandy movie. kids will like it, it’s pretty fun.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/13/25

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Audience Member

It's awesome, loved the songs. I totally jammed out! 🎶💃🕺Well done Nickelodeon!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/07/25

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the funny g

it is THE plankton movie of all time

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/05/25

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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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