IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie runs on crowd pleaser, joyful exuberance, and fantasy spell. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
2015

The Croods: A New Age
2020

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012

Trolls
2016

The Smurfs 2
2013

Monsters vs Aliens
2009

DC League of Super-Pets
2022

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
2022

The Lego Movie
2014

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013

Ratchet & Clank
2016

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
2025

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019

DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp
1990

Turbo
2013

Kung Fu Panda 3
2016

A Minecraft Movie
2025

Minions: The Rise of Gru
2022

Penguins of Madagascar
2014

Shazam! Fury of the Gods
2023

My Little Pony: The Movie
2017

Peter Rabbit
2018

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
2026