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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lucky Number" data-source="post: 1932505" data-attributes="member: 19366">This movie is definitely for fans of the series... a newcomer will be mystified.I actually thought it was fairly funny (not the best i've seen, but amusing), and it seemed to me to be catering more to adult audiences than to children- most of the little kids i know have heard of David Hasslehoff, but aren't familiar with him, so most of the jokes with him (other than the ridiculous imagery of him zooming through the water like a motorboat, and launching Patrick & Spongebob) will fall flat. Additionally, the imagery of Patrick waltzing around in fishnet stockings and high heels did definitely not suggest to me that this was only a movie for small children... from my observations, Spongebob's inanity enjoys signifigant popularity among teenagers and young adults, and the movie is a reflection of that.As for people who say that the humour in the series-- or any of a number of other contemporary cartoons --is based on rudeness and/or violence (i'm not directing this at you, Kesh, i've heard it from many parents), i'll point to the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, the big stars of these cartoons, are constantly trading insults("What a maroon! What an ignora-moose!") and subjecting their antagonists to bludgeonings, detonations, slicing, dicing, shootings, seduction, goring, and any number of other injuries. Villains such as Yosemite Sam are portrayed as violent, murderous sociopaths who constantly (albeit unintelligibly) curse, and are even shown being tormented in hell when they finally pass on. Characters in the Road Runner cartoons are routinely impacted by speeding vehicles, dropped off of cliffs, or reduced to cinders, and this is meant to be the "punchline".Spongebob doesn't have half the violence- most of the physical humour is based on the absurdity of Spongebob's aborbent nature, such as visiting an underwater beach, or taking a bath (the movie was notably more violent than the series, which of course may be attributed to more lax censorship). The rudeness of the characters fails to compare to not only older cartoons, but contemporary ones: there are fewer insults in an entire episode of Spongebob than in the first five minutes of Family Guy or the Simpsons. This is not to say there is no rudeness, but it is not on the same level... Squidward's apathetic, mocking disdain for his work and neighbors hardly compares to Bugs Bunny's belittling of his antagonists, often so maliciously engineered that it leads his foes to injury.</blockquote>

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