Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie | 2024 | TV-Y7 | – 1.3.1

Why is “Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie” rated TV-Y7? The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board rating indicates that “this program is designed for children age 7 and above.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several scenes of potential peril with characters experiencing non-permanent injuries, a woman’s head popping off from a robotic body, characters being cloned, characters being held in a large containment globe, characters in a laboratory being experimented on, characters being attacked by rattlesnakes, characters being launched from a cannon, and some name-calling and exclamations. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When Bikini Bottom is mysteriously removed from the ocean floor, Sandy Cheeks (voiced by Carolyn Lawrence) takes it upon herself, with the help of SpongeBob (voiced by Tom Kenny), to save her friends and her underwater home. Also with the voices of Clancy Brown, Bill Fagerbakke, Mr. Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, Rodger Bumpass, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Matty Cardarople, Wanda Sykes, Jill Talley, Craig Robinson, Grey Griffin and Johnny Knoxville. Directed by Liza Johnson. [Running Time: 1:22]

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A squirrel makes remarks about his appearance and his attractiveness. A squid swoons when a squirrel walks past him. A sponge swoons and says about a man, “He’s so masculine.”
► A squirrel wears a top that has exaggerated breasts in the shape of balls. A boulder rolls over several rattlesnakes causing them to lose their skins and we see them wearing long johns as they slither away.

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A huge claw descends into the ocean and opens over a town where the occupants run and scream and a squirrel and a sponge charge away on a robotic horse; sirens blare and other characters continue to run and scream, one character hits himself in the head with a food tray and one hides in a clamshell that closes on his leg and he screams in pain (we see his leg misshapen); the ocean floor breaks open creating a chasm that we see three fish fall into as they yell. An electrical charge blasts a large globe into the air, out of the atmosphere and around the moon before returning to Earth and splashing down in the ocean where it sinks to the ocean floor.
► Several rattlesnakes surround a sponge and a squirrel and the squirrel fights them with kicks and throws; one snake squeezes through the sponge popping in and out of his sponge head and body, and the squirrel is bitten on the leg and swells up (she speaks with slurred speech and seems woozy). Several squirrels spin several snakes around by the tails and throw them, a boulder is released and rolls over the snakes causing them to lose their skins (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), they slither away and one squirrel remarks that they “kicked their booties.” Several sea creatures rush after free food and when they gulp it up they are sedated; they are scooped up in nets and placed in containers where they swirl with glowing light streams around them; one character says, “I think I’m gonna hurl (we do not see goo). A boy and a girl fight over a starfish and pull in opposite directions stretching him before letting him go and he slams into a glass window, the girl hugs another character tightly and we see a few characters mixed into a plate of spaghetti and sauce. Police chase a car through a desert road and the driver says that he has some stolen nuts in the trunk; the car speeds up, cuts off an oncoming truck, jumps off a cliff and is picked up by a spinning tornado cloud. A squirrel and a sponge are shot out of a cannon and land in a water park swimming pool. A dog growls at and chases a squirrel and a sponge through a water park; they jump into a pool, climb up a slide and the squirrel and the sponge jump from the top and sail away leaving the dog to growl and bark at them before sailing behind them on a kite; the squirrel and the sponge tumble through a sewer drain and are washed out, when we hear a toilet flush and water gushes toward them. A squirrel jumps on a woman and the woman swats at her while yelling. A woman opens her suit and we see that she has a robotic body attached to her head. A sponge is zapped with electric charges and tiny versions of him (clones) pop off his fingers and out of his mouth and we hear that the original version of the clones will no longer exist. A squirrel speeds in a hamster wheel and jumps onto a woman, climbs on her back and manipulates wiring in her robotic body making the woman dance and when she falls over, her head is thrown through the air and it is caught by a giant fish with many teeth in its mouth; the woman says, “I’m finally a fish.”
► A sand tornado spins through a desert and sucks a squirrel and a sponge inside, they spin around (the sponge gags with no go shown) and see other things being pulled in including a bull and three men that we see are eating beans around a campfire (the squirrel says, “Good thing we are upwind,” and when we see them again later she holds her nose because they are now “down wind”). A volcanic vent shoots a column of steam toward the ocean surface and a squirrel and a sponge ride on clamshells to reach the surface and are thrown into the sky where the squirrel lassos a passing jet; they jump off the plane and the squirrel uses her flaps to sail to the ground and through rock formations. A sponge is thrown into a cactus and we see many tines stuck in his sponge. A sponge complains of head trauma and grunts several times as he tumbles down a sheer rock wall; a sponge’s mouth is filled with many shellfish as they speed toward him and he spits them back out. A very large fish with many sharp teeth kept in a pool in a laboratory kisses a woman on the lips, then kisses a dog and is fed a chicken leg that it gobbles up. A raccoon squirms and squeals when it is pulled out of a car’s engine and is thrown on the ground (it scampers off-screen). A large container filled with tiny sponges falls on the floor, shatters spilling the sponges on the floor, and a dog tries to eat some of them.
► A sponge shrivels from being out of water (one of his arms falls off) and he is sprayed with water to refill him with moisture (his arm is shown recovered). A sponge shrivels when he is out of water for a period of time; a squirrel sprays him with hydration foam that puffs him back to normal. A sponge complains of getting “flap slapped” when he rides on a squirrel’s back and the sail flaps on her back hit him in the face. A car blows smoke from its exhaust and speeds through a desert. A squirrel blows flames from her mouth to light a grill. A young girl takes a sea anemone out of an enclosure and takes it home to cuddle; when she holds it close it crumbles and she says, “It died.” A woman outside a glass dome leans over to look at the creatures inside and they run screaming in fear of the “giant.” Many sea creatures are shown in a glass dome filled with water and their underwater town.
► A character says, “Someone kill me now.” A woman talks about swimming with Piranhas in Peru. A woman yells at a man and another woman in several scenes, ordering them around and demeaning them. A squirrel says that it is better not to touch a raccoon because “it could have the rabies,” and another squirrel says, “I’ve had rabies more times than I can remember.” A starfish complains about having “scary sleep movies.” A character says that they are moving faster than “green grass through a goose.”
► A sponge cries about his friends and his home being taken away; he sobs deeply and long streams of water shoot out of his eyes. An alarm blares and a compartment fills with water in an undersea house where a squirrel puts on a helmet and undersea suit to leave the house safely. A man tells a woman, “The computer hates you since you spilled coffee on it.” An ad is shown for genetically modified sea creatures that can live in your home and breathe air. A sponge swims underwater in a swimming pool and tickles swimmers’ feet causing them to laugh.
► When trying to wink, a sponge is shown with heavy thread through his eyelid. While practicing with a toy, a sponge hits himself in the head several times, but does not appear injured. A character asks if a starfish has “gas again,” when the ocean floor opens. Several characters are alarmed by the sound of a toilet flushing loudly. A sponge walks past a pile of dung in a desert. A squirrel sucks out venom from another squirrel’s snakebite and spits it out (it looks like a torrent of water). When in a sewer drain, a sponge asks, “Do I look flushed,” and then flatulates. Several scabs covered with bandages are seen on a squid’s knees.

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie LANGUAGE 1

 – 1 mild anatomical term, name-calling (fish out of water, disaster, crazy, idiot, big old ugly ditch, pointy pink eraser head, sponge with the pants, lazy octopus, nut muffin, stupid, robo-jerk, zombie vampire, land witch, spy, evil villain, vermin, boy-o, nuts, unholy simulacrum, monsters, a little nuts, gear head, suck up), exclamations (woo-hoo, ugh, heck, sneeze through a screen door, hot dog, land critters are nuts, dang it, what in the Sam Hill, what in tarnation, wow, wee, cool, whoa, yee-haw, oops, oh, great Neptune, what they hey, what the heck, dagnabit, oh no), 5 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, unholy simulacrum, Holy sugar cookies). | profanity glossary |

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie SUBSTANCE USE

 – None.

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Greed, science, data collection, marine biology, being homesick, DNA, cloning, home, family, consumerism.

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie MESSAGE

 – A place is just a place but the heart makes it a home.