DVD review: “Spongebob Squarepants: The Complete Seventh Season”
From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.
“Spongebob Squarepants: The Complete Seventh Season”
The long-running adventures of a certain energetic, pineapple-dwelling sea creature wackily continue with “SpongeBob Squarepants: The Complete Seventh Season.”
The four-DVD set includes all 50 cartoons from the 26 episodes that aired from July 19, 2009, to Feb 26, 2011. It adds up to more than nine hours of the perpetually cheerful sponge’s eccentric bubble-blowing, jelly-fishing exploits, although several episodes already have been released on assorted DVD compilations.
Since Nickelodeon aired about 4 ½ hours of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in a single recent day, parents who feel like they and their children already get more than the recommended daily allowance of madcap deep-sea antics might be reluctant to add “The Complete Seventh Season” to their DVD collection.
But Fanatic followers of the yellow hero’s escapades will rejoice that the new collection marks the first time in years that an entire season of the show has been gathered in a single set rather than released in volumes.
The start of the seventh season coincided with the wildly popular cartoon’s 10th anniversary, and like many venerable shows, “SpongeBob” seems to have become more inconsistent with age. Some installments effervesce with the cartoon’s trademark off-kilter hilarity, including the double-episode “SpongeBob’s Last Stand,” in which SpongeBob (voice of Tom Kenny) and his starfish pal Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) channel the protest songs of the ‘60s to try to stop the construction of a super-highway that will destroy their beloved Jellyfish Fields.
In a clever play on the title character’s dual nature, SpongeBob literally gets an “Abrasive Side” when he wants to learn to say no to his friends, and my favorite characters, elderly superheroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway) get starring roles in a pair of uproarious time-bending adventures.
But “SpongeBob” is scraping Bikini Bottom with clunker cartoons like “Big Sister Sam,” with Patrick’s even more dim-witted sibling paying a visit and causing chaos with her bullying ways, and “Trenchbillies,” which is just another tired outlet for mocking drawling, snaggle-toothed Southern stereotypes.
Bonus features: Several 30- to 90-second animated shorts based on the episodes “Back to the Past,” “Legends of Bikini Bottom,” “The Great Patty Caper” and “SpongeBob’s Last Stand.”
— BAM
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It has been out! Finally! I really love Spongebob Squarepants! It’s really ridiculous and hilarious! It’s all about nonsense things turned out to be useful. heheheh.. My niece would be so delightful hearing this news. heheheh