Search for SquarePants," in theaters Friday, is cute but lacks the clever wit of previous movies or even the Netflix spinoffs.

With a turn by Mark Hamill and a saltily suggestive catchphrase for Patrick, the fourth SpongeBob film shows that anything can still happen in Bikini Bottom ...

Roughly every five years, a new SpongeBob SquarePants movie comes along and inflicts another hallucinatory, surreal adventure on children and their unwary cinemagoing parents. Sometimes these ...