Bill Fagerbakke

To see the high-pitched sponge...protest, "I am 100 percent man!" is to laugh: don't try to deny it...Kids will have a ball; parents will be forgiven a few cat-naps.

Doesn't have a nuance in it, but it's pretty consistently amusing in its latter-day Woody Allen way. For most of the way, its morals are happily, believably wrong, but all bad things must come to an end.

A nominal theme—complete with theme song—of teamwork. But really, Sponge Out of Water is about little more than fast food and ice cream, with the same promise of empty calories.