The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

It's difficult to know how to explain this film without descending into the obvious suggestions that the writers had indulged in narcotics when it came to putting the screenplay together. They also must have had some compromising photographs of Antonio Banderas because why else would he sell out in something like this. There's poking fun at yourself with the Spy Kids films but this is in a league of its own.

Perhaps the missing piece for our household was that we'd never watched the cartoon series but either way we were utterly clueless as to what was happening. Normally when a child asks you to explain what's going on in a film you can piece something credible together no matter how risible the content, but not in this case. It's questionable as to whether it is zany, madcap, bizarre, stoner or just ridiculous but either way it makes no sense, but then I don't think it's supposed to.

It's not possible to judge what the Child thought, she was utterly speechless.


Adult score: 1/5
Child score: 2/5
First thing the child said when the film finished: Nothing, complete silence.