The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

About The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman – a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate – on a seafaring adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) is an animation comedy film directed by Derek Drymon. The film is filed under cheerful, pirate, familiar, and casual.

Tom Kenny takes the lead as SpongeBob SquarePants, Mark Hamill as Flying Dutchman, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, and Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star (voice). Released in December 2025, it runs 88 minutes.

The screenplay is by Matt Lieberman and Pam Brady. It comes from Domain Entertainment, MRC, and Nickelodeon Movies. It is part of SpongeBob Collection. It is adapted from a television series. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, How to Train Your Dragon, and How to Train Your Dragon 2 make useful companions to The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, all filed under amused, based on cartoon, and based on TV series. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 360 votes and it carries a PG rating.