“FAMILY SAVING FAMILY”
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM: THE SANDY CHEEKS MOVIE is funny, absurd and silly, with wacky characters. Sandy is the most adorable character on SPONGEBOB. She has a good heart and loves to be with her friends in Bikini Bottom. SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM has a heartwarming theme of family saving family. There are some slightly scary scenes in SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM, however. For example, Sandy’s family helps her and SpongeBob fight a band of hungry rattlesnakes. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.
CONTENT:
Strong morally uplifting, redemptive worldview about family saving family and working together for the good of all;
No obscenities, two OMG profanities, and some euphemisms such as dang, heck and dagnabit, plus there are a few passing gas jokes (for example, Sandy and SpongeBob twice encounter three cowboys eating beans in a tornado, and the second time they are downwind);
Some comical slapstick violence such as someone steps on the green little plankton creature, a small game object hits SpongeBob in his forehead, characters fall down, a giant excavation shovel scoops up a town of sea creatures living on the bottom of the ocean near an island atoll, Sandy and SpongeBob barely escape the giant shovel by riding Sandy’s mechanical horse, but the shovel cuts the horse in half and it trips and falls forward as Sandy and SpongeBob go tumbling, two characters hiding in things run into one another, SpongeBob and Sandy and Sandy’s circus family battle some hungry rattlesnakes, a tornado sweeps up SpongeBob and Sandy twice in the movie, SpongeBob lands in a cactus, police cars chase characters riding in a vehicle, pug dog chases two characters, robot with a human head loses its head, fish are in danger of suffocating;
No sex;
No nudity;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
Villain kidnaps the inhabitants of an undersea town for nefarious purposes.
MORE DETAIL:
SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM: THE SANDY CHEEKS MOVIE is an animated comedy on Netflix where Sandy Cheeks, the intrepid squirrel and marine biologist living on Bikini Bottom, and her friend, the eternally optimistic SpongeBob SquarePants, must rescue the inhabitants of Bikini Bottom from a crazed woman who wants to turn them into a line of cloned, cuddly living toys. SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM is typical SpongeBob, funny, absurd and silly, with a heartfelt theme about family saving family, but there are some slightly scary parts, such as a scene where Sandy’s Texas family helps her fight off a band of hungry rattlesnakes.
The movie opens with Sandy waking up one morning and singing about how much she loves science and collecting data in Bikini Bottom. She greets her friend, SpongeBob. Suddenly, a giant excavation shovel scoops up Bikini Bottom as Sandy and SpongeBob watch helplessly. Sandy is surprised to see the shovel belongs to her lab in Galveston, Texas.
Sandy and SpongeBob ride a volcano vent into the sky and land on a plane headed for Houston. They jump off the plane when it nears Galveston, and SpongeBob is surprised to learn that Sandy’s a flying squirrel. However, a Texas tornado scoops them up and takes them 600 miles off course.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Bikini Bottom and their town are placed in a large fishbowl. The new owner of the lab, Sue Nahmee, has transformed the area around the lab into a water park. She plans to transform the creatures of Bikini Bottom into air breathing creatures and sell them as a line of cloned, cuddly living toys.
Can Sandy and SpongeBob get to the lab in time to save their friends?
SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM: THE SANDY CHEEKS MOVIE is funny, absurd and silly, with wacky characters. Sandy is the most adorable character on SPONGEBOB. She has a good heart and loves to be with her friends in Bikini Bottom.
SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM has a heartwarming theme of family saving family. Sandy belongs to a family of Texas squirrels who travel around the country as circus performers. Though they haven’t seen Sandy in a long time, they immediately come to the rescue when she calls them. In the end, Sandy realizes how blessed she is to have two families, her Texas relatives and her friends in Bikini Bottom.
There are some slightly scary scenes in SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM. For example, Sandy’s family helps her and SpongeBob fight a band of hungry rattlesnakes. Also, they have to fight a scary robot creature in the movie’s climax. SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM also has a few jokes about passing gas. When Sandy and SpongeBob ride two tornados, for instance, they run across three cowboys eating beans each time. The second time, they’re downwind of the cowboys.
So, MOVIEGUIE® advises caution for younger children.