Director: Stephen Hillenburg

Writers: Stephen Hillenburg; Derek Drymon; Tim Hill; Kent Osborne; Aaron Springer; Paul Tibbitt

Keywords: Juvenile

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Carlos Alazraqui	Actor	20-Jul-1962		Deputy Garcia on Reno 911!
Alec Baldwin	Actor	3-Apr-1958		A Baldwin Brother
Clancy Brown	Actor	5-Jan-1959		Kurgan in Highlander
Rodger Bumpass	Actor	1-Jan-1951		Voice of Squidward Tentacles
Bill Fagerbakke	Actor	4-Oct-1957		Dauber Dybinski on Coach
David Hasselhoff	Actor	17-Jul-1952		Knight Rider, Baywatch
Stephen Hillenburg	Cartoonist	21-Aug-1961		Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants
Scarlett Johansson	Actor	22-Nov-1984		Ghost World, Lost in Translation
Tom Kenny	Comic	13-Jul-1962		Mr. Show, SpongeBob SquarePants
Jill Talley	Comic	19-Dec-1962		Mr. Show, married to Tom Kenny
Jeffrey Tambor	Actor	8-Jul-1944		Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show
Thomas F. Wilson	Actor	15-Apr-1959		Biff Tannen in Back to the Future

REVIEWS

Featured review by Mark Tapio Kines:

Why did I see this movie, you might ask? Well, first of all, my girlfriend wanted to. But the other reason -- and I get so few opportunities to say this that this might be the only time I can -- is that the film's director, Steve Hillenburg, is my old classmate from California Institute of the Arts. There's only three people, so far, who have become fabulous successes about whom I can say "I knew them when": Danger Mouse, superagent Rick Yorn, and Steve. What I can tell you about Steve is that when he came to CalArts, he had a degree in marine biology and had done some cartoons, but had never animated anything. You wouldn't know it when you saw the things he did in class: his timing was perfect. So I'm glad he found fame and fortune with this character that he created, the titular SpongeBob. As for the humor? Well, it's pretty much non-stop silliness, isn't it? SpongeBob SquarePants is a direct descendent of Ren and Stimpy, only a bit less subversive. Thus, it lacks bite. But the kids love it. So go Steve. I won't bother telling you about the plot, but I will say that guest voiceover talent Scarlett Johansson puts more energy into her performance here than I've ever seen out of her in a live action film. And I give one last round of kudos to Steve for hiring our mutual friend Mark Osborne as sequence director, for putting a song in the movie that he wrote with the other guys from our experimental animation program, Steve Belfer and Carlos Palazio, and for dedicating the whole shebang to our late mentor, Jules Engel. Aside from all that, you either find SpongeBob hilarious or annoying, and you've already decided whether or not you're going to see this movie based on that. So why review it? In short, I thought it was OK.

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