Author: Jason Flatt

Jason is the Sr. Editor at But Why Tho? and producer of the But Why Tho? Podcast. He's usually writing about foreign films, Jewish media, and summer camp.

Netflix produces a fair number of excellent original animated projects. Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie is not one of them. This cheap attempt at capitalizing on nostalgia has no soul with its wretched animation style, very poor script, and hardly a thing nostalgic about it. The movie opens with a confounding musical number, launches straight into the over-encumbered plot, and keeps its main characters, Sandy Cheeks (Carolyn Lawrence) and Spongebob Squarepants (Tom Kenney), away from the rest of the cast just about the whole time. The Sandy Cheeks Movie is so uncanny in just about every way. The first and most…

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