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Not worth a sponge: "SpongeBob Movie: Operation Rescue" is boring, oppressive and exhausting
"SpongeBob Movie: Operation Rescue," the third film starring the Yellow Hero of Culture, aired directly on Netflix due to the Corona.
Disappointingly, watching it is just boring, and the presence of Keanu Reeves is as forced as anything else in it.
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Friday, 06 November 2020, 00:32
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Trailer for the movie "SpongeBob Movie: Operation Rescue" (Netflix)
PR Shai Librovsky
Corona damage reached as far as the sea floor.
"SpongeBob: Rescue Operation" was due to hit theaters last February, was postponed regardless of the plague and then delayed even further because of it, until it was eventually sold to Netflix, and went live on the streaming service over the weekend.
This is the third film starring the Yellow Icon, and it differs from its predecessors in two ways: the first produced after the death of Steven Hillenburg, who created the TV series starring The Sponge and also directed the debut film starring him;
And the first to be done entirely in computer animation, after the previous two combined it with manual animation.
The change is not welcome: it is not clear how and why it happened, but visually, the result just looks awful, at a very low level.
The plot, even more so than usual in the SpongeBob universe, is hallucinatory and takes care not to follow any straight line.
If you still try to extract a frame story from it, then here it is: the rescue operation named after the film turns out to be an operation to rescue Gary, the snail of the sponge, who is kidnapped by Poseidon, who rules the underwater world.
The cruel and narcissistic king needs him because his snail body has the ingredients needed to care for his skin, but the yellow hero is unwilling to abandon his loved one in this way, and sets out to save him when he is accompanied by another friend of his, Patrick.
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The animation looks awful.
From "SpongeBob Movie: Operation Rescue" (Photo: PR)
The film is screened with us in the original version and dubbed into Hebrew, and as usual in SpongeBob movies, it has borderline content in everything related to the age of the viewers - for example references to executions or psychedelic scenes.
On the other hand, in the end his messages are such that every parent will be happy to expose his children to them: and thus, according to the mishnah that passes here, external beauty does not matter, certainly not compared to internal beauty, and friendship and loyalty are paramount values.
SpongeBob has always been a successful life guide.
Like everyone else, I'm a fan of his, and I loved the previous two movies starring him.
At a time like this, the world needs it more than ever and one would have hoped that the third film would also be successful - but unfortunately and disappointingly, I suffered badly from it.
In fact, only with great difficulty, and only after a few attempts, I was able to finish it.
Aside from the level of animation, the failures of the film are so many that it is also difficult to know where to start naming them.
The script is scattered, constantly opening brackets and not closing them, firing in all directions and not hitting.
At some point, it aligns with the practice of the superhero world in recent years, and becomes a "source story" that uses flashbacks to tell how the yellow hero got this far.
It might have been enchanting, but the fact is that a moment after watching I had already forgotten how SpongeBob and the snail got to know each other.
This is how it is when everything is so arbitrary and casual.
What are you swimming in?
What a surprise he's here too.
Keanu Reeves from "SpongeBob Movie: Rescue Operation" (Photo: PR)
It is known that Bob is the coolest sponge there is, above or below the water.
The film tries to justify this reputation, and does so in a forced manner.
The first rule in the rule book "How to be cool" is that it should come to you naturally.
Whoever seeks it by force, will achieve the opposite result, and so here too.
The film is lazy in everything it does, and in this sector as well.
Thus, for example, in order to wink at children as well as stallions, he recruits all the immediate cool suspects - led by Keanu Reeves, who has recently appeared everywhere, and also emerges here as a talking bush.
The cult star is supposed to be a spice that always works - but here, a fact that does not.
His presence, like almost every other element here, is predictable, oppressive and exhausting.
Here and there, there are graceful moments here.
Cute SpongeBob Of course, the spirit of nonsense sometimes brings a smile and the potential is noticeable - but the truth is that most of the time, the film is just boring, and the result is almost never funny.
There is nothing like the love of a sponge for a snail.
Keanu Reeves from "SpongeBob Movie: Rescue Operation" (Photo: PR)
It's clear to me that all this will not prevent the future hit from immediately climbing to the top of the Netflix viewing charts: SpongeBob is one of the strongest brands in existence, the algorithm will push it hard, and it does not have other movies to see, but it does not change the fact that it is airy, crumpled and used Like a kitchen sponge.
At the end of the film, we discover that it is dedicated to the memory of Steven Hillenburg.
We, and of course he too, deserve better.
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