2012 · family · animation · comedy
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
Directed by Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh, Luke Brookshier, Marc Ceccarelli23m2012
At Christmastime in Bikini Bottom, everyone's excited except Plankton, who always gets a lump of coal from Santa. But he vows this year he'll finally get his wish – the Krabby Patty formula! And it won't be by being good. He's gonna make everyone in Bikini Bottom bad!
Our read: It's a SpongeBob Christmas! (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · animation · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Watching It's a SpongeBob Christmas! tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How It's a SpongeBob Christmas! feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want lighthearted stop-motion SpongeBob holiday chaos and songs.”
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