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The Cyclops grabs SpongeBob and Patrick, and takes them to his beachside store, revealed to be Shell City.

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The film was co-written, directed, and produced by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, with live-action sequences directed by Mark Osborne.

It features the series cast of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass and Mr.

Lawrence, with Alec Baldwin, David Hasselhoff (as himself), Scarlett Johansson and Jeffrey Tambor portraying new characters.

It is the first film in the SpongeBob SquarePants film series.

In this film, Plankton devises a plan to discredit his business nemesis Mr.

Krabs, steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over the world by stealing King Neptunes crown and framing Mr.

Krabs for the crime.

SpongeBob and Patrick team up to retrieve the crown from Shell City to save Mr.

Krabs from Neptunes wrath and the oceanic world from Planktons rule.

A writing team consisting of Hillenburg, Paul Tibbitt, Derek Drymon, Aaron Springer, Kent Osborne and Tim Hill was assembled, conceiving the idea of a mythical heros quest and the search for a stolen crown, which would bring SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface.

The film was originally intended as the series finale, but Nickelodeon ordered more episodes of the series as it had become increasingly profitable, so Hillenburg resigned as showrunner with Tibbitt taking his place.

The film was released on November 19, 2004, grossing 140 million worldwide, and received generally positive reviews from critics.

A second film titled The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water was released on February 6th 2015, and another titled The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is scheduled for release on May 22nd 2020.

Instead, Mr. Krabs names Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBobs next-door neighbor and co-worker, as manager, thinking SpongeBob is too immature to handle the role, much to SpongeBobs depression.

Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs business rival, Plankton, complains about his failures to his computer wife Karen, being unable to steal the Krabby Patty formula.

When Karen points out plan Z, a scheme which he has yet to attempt, Plankton decides to implement it.

Elsewhere, Plankton steals King Neptunes crown, leaving false evidence to frame Mr.

Krabs for the crime, and sends the crown to the distant land of Shell City.

The next morning, Neptune barges into the Krusty Krab 2 and threatens Mr.

Krabs for his alleged thievery.

SpongeBob arrives and chastises Mr.

Krabs under the influence of an ice-cream headache, but seeing his bosss life at risk shocks SpongeBob back to his senses and he promises Neptune that he will retrieve the crown from Shell City.

Neptune is convinced by his daughter Mindy to spare Mr.

Krabs for the time being and freezes him instead, ordering SpongeBob to return with the crown in exactly six days.

Soon after SpongeBob and Patrick leave for Shell City, Plankton steals the Krabby Patty formula and uses it to produce and sell Krabby Patties at his restaurant, the Chum Bucket.

He also gives away free Chum Bucket helmets to his customers, which are actually mind-controlling devices that Plankton activates to control Bikini Bottoms residents and take over the city.

Squidward goes to the Chum Bucket to confront Plankton, but is captured and enslaved by the customers.

When they finally come to the conclusion that they cannot finish the mission due to their immaturity, they tearfully give up.

Mindy, however, arrives at the trench and tells SpongeBob and Patrick of Planktons plan.

With their confidence boosted, they brave the trench but are confronted by Dennis, a hitman hired by Plankton to eliminate them.

Suddenly, Dennis is stepped on by a hard-hat diver that SpongeBob and Patrick believe to be a Cyclops.

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