Are Ye Ready, Kids? ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Teaser Trailer Sets Sail

Fans will soon be diving back into Bikini Bottom, and more foreboding depths of the briny, in The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. The new 3D CG feature in the SpongeBob canon drops anchor in theaters on December 19, from Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies.

Synopsis: SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom friends set sail in their biggest, all-new, can’t miss cinematic event ever … The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.

Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman — a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate — on a seafaring comedy-adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

The voice cast is led by franchise stars Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy) and Mr. Lawrence (Plankton), joined by George Lopez, Isis “Ice Spice” Gaston, Arturo Castro and Sherry Cola, with Regina Hall and Mark Hamill.

The sixth SpongeBob feature film is directed by Derek Drymon (Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania), a longtime writer on the franchise. The screenplay is by Emmy winner Pam Brady (Smurfs; Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken; #1 Happy Family USA) and Matt Lieberman (Rumble, Scoob!, The Addams Family), from a story by SpongeBob veterans Marc Ceccarelli & Kaz and Pam Brady.

The film is produced in association with Domain Entertainment and MRC. Producers are Lisa Stewart, p.g.a., Pam Brady and Aaron Dem. Executive producers are Marc Ceccarelli, Vincent Waller, Pete Chiappetta, Anthony Tittanegro and Andrew Lary.