The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

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SpongeBob SquarePants: Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | Movies: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie / Sponge Out of Water / Sponge on the Run / Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie / Plankton: The Movie / Search for SquarePants | Spin-offs: Kamp Koral (s1, s2) / The Patrick Star Show (s1, s2, s3, s4) | Specials: SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout, The Tidal Zone, Kreepaway Kamp, Snow Yellow, Sandy's Country Christmas, SpongeBob and Patrick's Timeline Twist-Up

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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is a 2025 American live-action/computer-animated adventure comedy film based on the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. The plot follows SpongeBob on a quest to prove his bravery by adventuring with the ghost pirate, The Flying Dutchman, through the Underworld.

Directed by Derek Drymon. Produced by Pam Brady and Matt Lieberman. Screenplay by Marc Ceccarelli, Kaz and Pam Brady.

They're gonna need a bigger screen.(taglines)

SpongeBob SquarePants

• I'm ready!
• The hero's journey starts with one squish.
• The Flying Dutchman?! The most pants-wettingly scariest ghost to ever roam the high seas? [a brick falls out of his pants] Oh, my lucky brick.

Patrick Star

• I thought you were a big guy.
• Well, that's weird.
• I don't have a lucky brick.

Mr. Krabs

• The Dutchman's taken SpongeBob to the deepest, most dangerous part of the sea: the Underworld.
• SpongeBob's in danger! We gotta go save him!

Squidward Tentacles

• Under-where? Hah. Underwear. Ha ha ha.
• There's always time for a solo.

The Flying Dutchman

• I'm taking you to the Underworld!
• A trip to the Underworld is not for the faint of heart!
• He's the key to unlocking my curse!

Barb

• What is happening...?

Dialogue

• [The movie starts with the Paramount Animation With The Flowers clouds replacing The stars, Nickelodeon Movies, and Domain Entertainment logos as the waves start crashing zooming inside the pirate ship.]
• Pirate narrator: Once upon a time, long, long ago--
• [The waves suddenly makes the ship rotates up and down, making the pirate holds something before it falls off, and continue the story.
• Pirate narrator: Once upon a time, long, long ago-- Come on!
• [The waves once again suddenly makes the ship rotates up and down, making the pirate had enough and puts an anchor preventing him being moved.]
• Pirate narrator: Once upon a time, long, long ago, one unlucky sailor fell under an ancient, wicked, cursed. And thusly, he became known. As the dreaded Flying Dutchman... (Thunder strucks) Legend has it, the only way to lift his curse is through the pure heart of an innocent. Henceforth, the Flying Dutchman is doomed to wander the seas in search of this magical soul. A precious youth with an innocent mind. Will he find this soul? (Thunder strucks) Does such a soul even exist?
• [SpongeBob laughs]
• Spooky voices: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
• [Flying Dutchman laughs evilly. Then scene cuts to Bikini Bottom, and then a clam crows. We see that SpongeBob is still sleeping until the foghorn hits 8 a.m. Then, the foghorn wakes SpongeBob up.]
• Foghorn: Good morning! This is Rocket Fuel Randy on BKNI 101, and I got the jet fuel to get you rocking! Are you ready to get the day started?
• SpongeBob: I'm ready.
• [Oh Yeah by Yello is playing. SpongeBob throw his blanket at Gary, who is still sleeping. SpongeBob dances and whooping with his jelly catcher net.]
• Foghorn: Big things are happening today!
• SpongeBob: Today's the day. I just know it.
• Foghorn: Things feel different.
• SpongeBob: My whole life is about to change. (He throws his jelly catcher net near Gary.)
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: I know I said that yesterday, Gary.
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: And the day before.
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: And a bunch of days before that. But today is different. (He unties the rope and opens the curtain, who reveal his height measure before he reveal it to Gary.)
• Foghorn: Big things in store.
• [Gary measures SpongeBob's height]
• SpongeBob: Well, what's it say, Gary?
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: What? That can't be.
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: Gary, what's it really say?
• Gary: Meow-ow.
• SpongeBob: (angrily) Gary.
• [Gary goes to the top of SpongeBob's head to check what height does SpongeBob really is. While Gary is checking SpongeBob is scared to reveal his actual height.]
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: (excited) Woo! Do you know what this means?
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: For the last time, we are not rehoming you. No, this means I'm exactly 36 clams high!
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: I know it doesn't seem like much, Gary, but that half a clam I grew changes everything.
• Gary: Meow.
• SpongeBob: That's right Gary-licious. Everyone's gonna look at me in a brand new way.
• Ice Spice: (rapping) Big guy. Big guy. Big, big guy.
• SpongeBob: Because now... I'm a big guy.
• [SpongeBob throws some stuff and a sock that lands on Gary's eyes.]
• Ice Spice: (rapping) SpongeBob BigGuy Pants, okay; Tight fit, square hips; Doing a dance in my big guy pants
• [SpongeBob blow bubbles that says: "Big guy". ]
• SpongeBob: Big guy.
• [Scene cuts to the bathroom where SpongeBob is taking a shower.]
• SpongeBob: Big guy.
• [Scene cuts to the kitchen where SpongeBob pouring some cereal into a bowl.]
• SpongeBob: Big guy.
• [Scene cuts to the workout room where SpongeBob trying to lift some heavy stuffies that he added.]
• SpongeBob: Big guy.
• [Scene cuts to the living room where SpongeBob off to work and Gary is taking a nap.]
• SpongeBob: (rap song stops playing) Well, catch you later, Gare-Bare. I'm off to do some important stuff that only big guys like are allowed to do. (He puts his hat lower so he can "fit" into the door)
• SpongeBob: Whew. We're gonna need a bigger doorway. (He closes the door)
• Gary: Meow.
• [Scene cuts to outside where Squidward is playing his clarinet.]
• SpongeBob: Morning, Squidward! Want to hear my big news?
• Squidward: Oh, sure. Let me go mark some time on my calendar. (He scoffs, then closes his window)
• SpongeBob: Great! Let me know when! (whistles) Good morning, Patrick!
• Patricka: Good morning! Who are you?
• SpongeBob: Patrick, it's me!
• Patrick: (grunts) Grandma? You're upside down!
• SpongeBob: No, Patrick, it's me, SpongeBob.
• Patrick: You can't be SpongeBob. He's more diminutive.
• SpongeBob: He's what?
• Patrick: Of reduced stature.
• SpongeBob: Come again?
• Patrick: Vertically challenged.
• SpongeBob: Say what now?
• Patrick: He's shorter.
• SpongeBob: Patrick, I can't believe all I do is grow a half a barnacle overnight, and now I'm 36 clams tall and you don't even recognize your own best friend!
• Patrick: Did you say you're 36 clams tall?
• SpongeBob: (sobbing) Yes!
• Patrick: (straining) You're a big guy now!
• SpongeBob: This guy's a big guy!
• Patrick: So big!
• SpongeBob: Really big!
• Patrick: Big, big, big!
• SpongeBob: Guy, guy, guy!
• Patrick: Big, big, big!
• SpongeBob: Guy, guy, guy!
• Patrick: Big, big, big!
• SpongeBob: Guy, guy, guy! (Squidward groans)
• Patrick: Big, big, big!
• SpongeBob: Guy, guy, guy!
• SpongeBob: Look out, everyone, really big.
• Patrick: Really guy.
• SpongeBob: Hey, Sandy, notice anything different about me?
• [Scene cuts to the Sandy where she is running in her squirrel wheel]
• Sandy: (panting) Howdy, SpongeBob. Did you get a new pair of shoes?
• [SpongeBob and Patrick laugh together]
• Plankton: Ouch!
• SpongeBob: Hi, Plankton.
• Plankton: Watch where you're going, you big dummy!
• SpongeBob: Oh, thanks for noticing.
• Plankton: Wait, no! Ow!
• SpongeBob: Patrick, I've never felt so respected before.
• Patrick: Get used to it, buddy. And do you know what the best part of being a big guy is?
• SpongeBob: (chuckles) What is it, Patrick?
• Patrick: No, I'm asking.
• SpongeBob: It means I finally get to do what every little guy dreams of doing when they grow up.
• Patrick: You don't mean...
• SpongeBob: That's right. Ride the big guy coaster at Captain Booty Beard's Fun Park!
• Both: Whoo-hoo!
• SpongeBob: This calls for an extra-special bubble blow.
• [SpongeBob and Patrick blow bubbles and transform into themselves and hugs. They do the same as the bubble, giggling.]
• SpongeBob: To Captain Booty Beard's!
• Both: Whoo-hoo!
• Patrick: Gimme a "big"!
• SpongeBob: Big!
• Patrick: Gimme a "guy"!
• SpongeBob: Guy!
• Patrick: What does that spell?
• SpongeBob: 36 clams high!
• [Scene cuts to the theme park where SpongeBob and Patrick said earlier.]
• Security: (Child grunts) Don't waste my time, squirt. (Child groans) Next.
• [SpongeBob and Patrick is giggling so much as they cannot wait to enter]
• Security: (groans) You again. (She checks SpongeBob's height) Congratulations.
• SpongeBob: Patrick?
• Patrick: It's official.
• [SpongeBob and Patrick scream in happiness]
• Security: Don't make me call security.
• Both: Whoo-hoo! (giggling)
• [As they approach to the roller coaster, SpongeBob looks at the ride. He finds that the ride looks too scary for him.]
• SpongeBob: Patrick?
• [But Patrick still excited and brings SpongeBob to the ride, whoops and screams while he's grabbing SpongeBob.]
• SpongeBob: Wait a minute!
• Patrick: Huh? What's the matter? I thought you were a big guy.
• SpongeBob: I am! I mean... (deep voice) I am. (normal) I just, uh, promised someone else that I'd ride with them, (chuckles) that's all.
• Patrick: Oh, yeah? Who?
• SpongeBob: (stammers) The guy who-- I-- Mr. Krabs!
• Patrick: Oh. That makes sense
• SpongeBob: Phew.
• Patrick: Let's go get him!
• [Patrick grabs SpongeBob and searching Mr. Krabs around Bikini Bottom]
• Patrick: Heads up, Mr. Krabs! It's time to ride the Shipwreck! Whoo-hoo!
• Mr. Krabs: What are ya talking about, Patrick?
• Patrick: The roller coaster! Get your head in the game.
• SpongeBob: Remember that big, terrifying roller coaster?
• Mr. Krabs: Nope.
• SpongeBob: We had a deal to ride it together.
• Mr. Krabs: Nope.
• SpongeBob: So I couldn't ride it if you were too busy to ride it with me. (exclaims)
• Mr. Krabs: Wha--
• [Patrick explaining about the roller coaster with his hands]
• Patrick: Shipwreck!
• [Mr. Krabs is thinking about the roller coaster deal until he remembers it]
• Mr. Krabs: Oh, right! Our old roller coaster deal. Of course, yeah.
• SpongeBob: Phew.
• Mr. Krabs: But, uh, we can't go today, lad. Things are too busy around here.
• SpongeBob: Oh. Hear that, Patrick? Mr.--
• [Patrick still explaining about the roller coaster with his hands until he falls]
• Patrick: Shipwreck!
• SpongeBob: Thanks for covering for me, Mr. Krabs. I don't know why I got so scared when I saw the roller coaster. I thought it was big enough.
• Mr. Krabs: Just 'cause you're taller don't mean you're a big guy.
• SpongeBob: It doesn't?
• Mr. Krabs: Big guys are rough and tumble. They don't blow bubbles.
• SpongeBob: I guess not.
• Mr. Krabs: Being scared of roller coasters ain't nothing to be ashamed of.
• SpongeBob: Glad you understand. You must've been scared of roller coasters, too, when you were my age.
• Mr. Krabs: Well, I wouldn't really--
• SpongeBob: You were probably hiding-under-the-bed kind of scared, weren't you?
• Mr. Krabs: Well, I, uh--
• SpongeBob: Maybe even cwyin'-fo'-mama kind of scared.
• Mr. Krabs: I wasn't crying for mama!
• SpongeBob: Poopy-pee-pee-in-my-pantsy kind of scared. (laughs) Am I right?
• Mr. Krabs: Get it straight, SpongeBob! My pants were clean! 'Cause nothing ever scared me... and nothing ever will!
• SpongeBob: But didn't say being scared wasn't anything to be ashamed of?
• Mr. Krabs: It ain't! For you. But I'm different. I wasn't blowing bubbles at your age. I was risking me life on the high seas! (adventurous music playing and everybody gasps) I ate danger for breakfast! Peril for lunch! And adventure for dinner!
• SpongeBob: Wha-wha-wha-- Really?
• Mr. Krabs: That's right! I was in command of me own vessel, and sailed many a dangerous miles.
• SpongeBob: Tell me about your greatest adventure.
• Mr. Krabs: What if I told you I sailed with Flying Dutchman himself?
• SpongeBob: The Flying Dutchman? The most pants-wettingly scariest ghost to ever roam the high seas? Oh, my lucky brick.
• Mr. Krabs: Aye! Like many a young sailor before me, I longed for adventure. And that's when I met the Dutchman's hornpipe appeared. (hornpipe blowing) I summoned the cursed pirate, and journeyed with him to the deepest part of the sea. A nightmare realm called the Underworld. (roars)(SpongeBob gulps) It was filled with ghostly pirates, haunted hurricanes, terrifying monsters! Roar! (SpongeBob: Whoa!) I faced 'em all with steel in me backbone and a cutlass in me claw! (exclaims) It was the greatest adventure of me life!
• SpongeBob: Wow! You're almost like a real swashbuckler!
• Mr. Krabs: Almost? I am a real swashbuckler! How do you think I earned this baby?
• [Mr. Krabs showing his swashbuckler certificate to SpongeBob]
• SpongeBob: What is that?
• Mr. Krabs: It's a Swashbuckler Certificate. It means I proved my bravery, courageousness, daring, panache, guts, grit, moxie, and intestinal fortitude.
• SpongeBob: Well, that's it! I'd be a big guy if I could earn my Swashbuckler Certificate. And you could teach me!
• Mr. Krabs: Teach you? To be a swashbuckler? I don't mean to laugh in your face, but... (laughs) you're too scared to even ride a roller coaster!
• SpongeBob: I can do it. I want to be a brave swashbuckler like you. I'm ready.
• Mr. Krabs: SpongeBob, you're just a bubble-blowing baby boy who's not ready.
• SpongeBob: But--
• Mr. Krabs: Butts are for toilets! Speaking of which, the heads need swabbing, so git! And no more talk about being a swashbuckler.
• SpongeBob: Aww...
• Mr. Krabs: (echoes) You're not ready... not ready... not ready... not ready...not ready...not ready...
• [Scene cut to Patrick putting toilet paper on his head and puts the paper, then puts the paper into the toilet, flush. He even laughs while he's doing it. While Patrick doing his behavior, SpongeBob wrote what kind of habits he needs for the Swashbuckler Certificate.]
• SpongeBob: Bravery. Courage. I got to learn this stuff if I'm gonna prove myself to Mr. Krabs.
• Patrick: You got this, SpongeBob. (giggles) Uh-oh.
• SpongeBob: Now what else did he say I needed?
• Patrick: Daring.
• SpongeBob: Oh, right. Daring.
• Patrick: Guts.
• SpongeBob: Definitely need those.
• Patrick: Panache. Moxie.
• Patrick: Intestinal fortitude.
• SpongeBob: Okay, okay! Slow down!
• Patrick: You spelled "fortitude" wrong. It's F-O-R-T-I-T-U-D-E. (SpongeBob gasps)
• SpongeBob: Mr. Krabs's certificate! Why do you have this?
• Patrick: I always read it on the bathroom.
• SpongeBob: Hmm. I know I can do this. I just need a chance to do it! I just need to prove it! (echoes)
• [A green light appeared front of SpongeBob and Patrick from a vent]
• Patrick: Well, that's weird. (wind gustles)
• SpongeBob: Oh, shrimp! The certificate!
• Patrick: Mr. Krabs won't like that.
• SpongeBob: W-- we got to get it, right?
• Patrick: I.. I'm not going in there.
• SpongeBob: Yeah, you'd have to be pretty brave to go in there. Hey, wait a minute! Patrick, this is it!
• Patrick: It is?
• SpongeBob: Destiny is squeezing my buns. Do you feel it?
• Patrick: Yeah!
• SpongeBob: This vent is just what I need to start earning my Swashbuckler Certificate.
• Patrick: You mean the one we lost?
• SpongeBob: Oh, yes, that one, but also the one I'm gonna earn.
• Patrick: We lost two of them down there?
• SpongeBob: The hero's journey starts with one squish. (grunts)
• Patrick: Right behind you. (strains) I'll catch up.
• SpongeBob: Ooh. Side adventure.
• SpongeBob: Hmm, left or right?
• Creature: Mmm... (SpongeBob screams)
• SpongeBob: Left! Definitely left! (panics) Ow! (gasps) This must lead to the basement. This must go deeper than the basement. Wha-- Where am I? (clicks)
• [SpongeBob is shocked about Mr. Krabs's secret swashbuckler basement]
• SpongeBob: (gasps) (gasps) (gasps loudly) This must be Mr. Krabs's swashbuckler sanctum. Ooh, look at that. And that. And that. And that! And that! And that! And that! And that! And that! And that! And that! And that! (exclaims)
• Patrick: Hi.
• SpongeBob: Argh!
• Patrick: Ahoy!
• SpongeBob: (grunts)

Taglines

• Arrrr you ready?
• Ship's about to go down.
• Near, far, wherever the pirates arrr.
• They're gonna need a bigger screen.
• This Christmas, they are in deep ship.
• Get ready for a yellow Christmas.

Cast

• Tom Kenny — voice of SpongeBob and Gary the Snail

• Clancy Brown — voice of Mr. Krabs

• Rodger Bumpass — voice of Squidward Tentacles

• Bill Fagerbakke — voice of Patrick

• Carolyn Lawrence — voice of Sandy Cheeks

• Mr. Lawrence — voice of Plankton

• Regina Hall — voice of Barb

• Mark Hamill — voie of the Flying Dutchman

• George Lopez — voice of JK Fishlips

• Isis Gaston — voice of the Ticket Taker

• Arturo Castro — voice of the Ride Operator

• Sherry Cola — voice of the Studio Spokesperson

External links

• Encyclopedic article on The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants on Wikipedia