SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The

Official U.S. Playstation Magazine

The beauty of SpongeBob is that there's as much in it for an adult a there is for a 5-year-old, and this game captures that essence perfectly. [Dec 2004, p.125]

3DAvenue

A game which can be played by both adults and kids who want a simple, cute game to watch time fly while their having fun.

AceGamez

The Spongebob Squarepants Movie has impressed me so much that I'm almost embarrassed to admit it. There's loads of variety to keep anybody quiet for ages - it even kept me up, playing until the break of dawn!

PSX Nation

Reasonably good-looking, occasionally challenging (even for grown-ups), somewhat lengthy (15+ hours) and a little too nuts for its own (and young gamers’) good, this game captures the spirit of its source material remarkably well.

IGN

Controls feel responsive and the camera rarely hinders your view of the action. And the humor of the show practically seeps out of every clamshell and bed of kelp you cross.

Play Magazine

The game is designed in such a way that it behooves the player to not just pass levels but excel at them. [Jan 2005, p.69]

Game Chronicles

Luckily, Heavy Iron stuck to the highly successful formula of the show and the quirkiness of its characters to make an entertaining experience.

RealGamer

Enjoyable and amusing to play, just as the episodes are to watch, the adult humour is here hidden amongst the child-like silliness of the game.

Boomtown

If you’re a SpongeBob fan, you’ll definitely appreciate this game because it’s the closest you’ll ever be to being the porous fool himself.

Cheat Code Central

Aside from the occasional glitch, the game is relatively solid and mechanically sound. It's challenging without being frustrating, and it's full of humor and surprises, making it the kind of game that will appeal to a wide range of gamers.

Stuff

The irreverent, goofball sense of humor from the show is intact, which makes up for the sometimes iffy controls.

DarkStation

Although it may not have all the bells and whistles that some of the better platformers are coming out with these days, it does have enough to where kids are going to be having an enjoyable time playing it.

Game Informer

The core gameplay is simply tired. Jumping around collecting random doodads is just old - it's time to move on to new objectives in platformers. [Dec 2004, p.167]

PSM Magazine

Lacks the polish and tuning of the last game in both controls and design. [Holiday 2004, p.94]

IC-Games

Spongebob neither sinks to the bottom of the sea bed, nor rises to the top. Instead he is somewhere between, swimming with the crowd of movie to game cash-ins. Kids will enjoy it, adults will hate it, and no one will remember it.

Gamers Europe

As a game, Spongebob is saved by the comedy, with all the childish charm and hidden adult innuendo from the TV shows included in the game, and hardcore fans will absolutely love it.

AltGaming

The surrealism of the game’s source occasionally bleeds through with the characterisation and plot, but it feels wasted in the banality exhibited in most of the game.