‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants’ Review: It’s SpongeBob on a Pirate Adventure, but With Most of the Joy Squeezed Out

It might be an exaggeration to say that "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants" is the movie that finally squeegees the life out of SpongeBob SquarePants. But watching this friendly yet rather toothless adventure, with its jokes that simply don’t pop the way they used to, you can feel SpongeBob receding into the zone of a harebrained yet cozy elder statesman of high-energy juvenilia.