The first part of the movie seems like what could have been a regular episode, with small Banderas-breaks in between. I enjoyed the plot, but I sometimes wished they would have made it a bit more complex, as that could safely have been done without making it harder to understand for children.
And I was amazed that they dared to have so much of the movie in plain old hand animation. I loved how it combined cartoons, live action and CGI. The movie did a great job in establishing everything I needed to know.
I was somewhat familiar with it, as anyone exposed to internet popular culture would be, but not enough to know any of the characters by anything but looks. This is my first meeting with Spongebob, as I have never seen the show or the previous movie.
