Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
Movie, 2024, The films, Set in Texas
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie is #7 of 9 in release order and #7 of 9 in chronological order in the SpongeBob SquarePants.
The story
When Bikini Bottom is scooped from the ocean, scientific squirrel Sandy Cheeks and her pal SpongeBob SquarePants saddle up for Texas to save their town.
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie recap
Sandy Cheeks works for a Texas lab, and when the lab scoops all of Bikini Bottom out of the sea in a giant bubble, the town and its people end up in Texas. Sandy and SpongeBob head to the surface to bring the town home, but a tornado blows them off course. At the lab, Mr. Krabs meets a human scientist, Phoebe, and the lab's new boss, Sue Nahmee, orders the two runaways caught. When Sandy is bitten by rattlesnakes, she calls on her family, a travelling circus act, who help them get to the lab, and her brother Randy teaches SpongeBob the family whistle. Sue tests her plan on Mr. Krabs, Squidward and Patrick: she wants to make Bikini Bottom's creatures breathe air and clone them as cuddly pets, because she has always wanted to hug fish.
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie ending explained
Sue traps Sandy in a hamster wheel cage and sends SpongeBob into her cloning chamber, where he splits into thousands of tiny SpongeBobs. Sue reveals she is a cyborg, and Sandy breaks free and beats her. The tiny SpongeBobs are put back together, and when the bubble holding Bikini Bottom cracks, SpongeBob uses the family whistle to call the Cheeks family, who help launch the town back into the sea. Bikini Bottom celebrates with a Cheeks family circus at the Krusty Krab.
Where to watch Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie is streaming on Netflix in the US.
Ratings
IMDb 3.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 50%
Where it fits
- Release order: after The Patrick Star Show, before Plankton: The Movie.
- Chronological order: after The Patrick Star Show, before Plankton: The Movie.
What to watch before Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
In release order, the essentials before Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024) are SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020). Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie itself is optional in the SpongeBob SquarePants order.
Cast
- Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy / Bottomite Crowd (voice)
- Tom Kenny as SpongeBob / Gary / Sonny / Various (voice)
- Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs / Clyde / Neighbor #1 / Bottomite #2 / Bottomite Crowd (voice)
- Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick / Bottomite #4 / Bottomite Crowd (voice)
- Mr. Lawrence as Fred / Larry / Plankton / Video Announcer / Plankton Lincoln / Snail Walker / Bottomite Crowd (voice)
- Rodger Bumpass as Squidward / Butch / Police Loudspeaker / Bottomite #1 / Bottomite Crowd (voice)
- Johnny Knoxville as Randy Cheeks (voice)
- Craig Robinson as Pa Cheeks (voice)
- Grey DeLisle as Ma Cheeks / Granny Cheeks / Rowdy Cheeks / Rosie Cheeks (voice)
- Ilia Isorelýs Paulino as Phoebe
- Matty Cardarople as Kyle
- Wanda Sykes as Sue Nahmee
Directed by Liza Johnson.