+Ieron Darklord Paramount and Nickelodeon tried to find real mutant humanoid turtles, an anthropomorphic rhino, a talking alien brain and a huge warthog with a purple mohawk to act in this movie... the pay was good, but I guess they couldnt find any or maybe the talking rhino was busy...so, Im so sorry you find curious the use of CGI in this cartoon adaptation...
+Maxwell Kinney So would I. But drinking martini's with JLaw isn't going to get him there. He's 72. Chances are he's not got "the deep" in him anymore. He's buying Barbuda; lives in a 125K per month apartment and as he admitted on Colbert he loves drinking 'tini's with jlaw and even toasted her with Colbert. It's on youtube. It's sad that we won't see more than Dirty Grandpa and low life grammar at NYU graduations from him anymore.
+Kathi Papaleo Yeah, I think De Niro knows he has nothing left to prove and is just phoning it in nowadays. I'd love to see him play a complex dramatic character again.
+Maxwell Kinney I didn't make the bubble comment. Go after the person who did use the phrase "hollywood bubble". And after Dirty Grandpa I'll never watch a De Niro movie. He's a different person entirely now. Wouldn't pay good money for him ever again. The last good movie he made was Ronin in 1999. He's changed since he's become a 1%er. Those of us who knew him in his Tribeca years are disheartened with the person he's become.
+Kathi Papaleo The production company was based out of Los Angeles, but Scorsese and all the principle actors are New Yorkers, and it was filmed in New York. I don't think you'd have to be in the "Hollywood bubble" to enjoy this, at all.
I think De Niro plays himself. Very well. He's playing out a fantasy. It's one of his best performances. Jerry Lewis is also remarkable. Love this movie!
They had me until, "to save their world, they must come to ours." I've
never liked the idea of making a movie based on a cartoon take place in the
real world. It has never been done well, *ever*.
+Elimy23 He-Man couldn't do it. Smurfs couldn't do it. Rocky and Bullwinkle couldn't do it. Underdog couldn't do it. Why should we expect SpongeBob to be able to?
To everyone complaining "but they should know what humans and land are
like!"
They've never thoroughly explored our world though, plus the only humans
they've truly come into contact with are David Hasslehoff and the diver,
they never realized the diver was human and they may have thought David
Hasselhoff was a god like Neptune.
Also whats with all the people discriminating against 3D animation? Good
grief, talk about nostalgia blinding your judgement...
+Elimy23 I am still not convinced, SB has a very unorthodox continuity and the creators tend to have different thoughts on it. Plus with this new movie, they may very well declare it takes place after the first one.
+Elimy23 I understand that, however I am not convinced that the first movie is the grand finale of Spongebob time wise. Quite a few things happen in later episodes that could only have happened if the movie had happened, plus the movie was out of tune canonically with previous episodes.I think it is a lot easier just to assume the episodes that were made after the movie take place after the movie. Plus it is conceivable the creators may have this movie take place after the first one anyway.Not confusing at all, it is very sound reasoning but SB's odd continuity throws most reason out the window.
Actually if you don't mind me correcting you they don't know what humans are like because this movie takes place long before the first oneThe first movie is the last ever episode of SpongeBob, think of it as the finale of SpongeBob SquarePants if you willIf you imagine SpongeBob's life on a timeline this new movie would have happened way before the first one, which is why they greeted David Hasslehoff so casually in the first movieSo really this is them experiencing humans for the first time, despite us already seeing them interact with humans years agoSorry if this confuses you!