The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Teaser Surfaces

Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies have released the teaser trailer, teaser posters, and images for The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. It is the fourth theatrical film based on the SpongeBob SquarePants series and is scheduled to open in theaters on December 19, 2025.

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.

The film has been rated PG by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for rude humor, some thematic elements, and mild language.

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.

Search for SquarePants features the voices of Tom Kenny (Plankton: The Movie), Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, George Lopez, Isis “Ice Spice” Gaston, Arturo Castro, and Sherry Cola, with Regina Hall and Mark Hamill.

Directed by series veteran Derek Drymon, the new SpongeBob Movie was written by Pam Brady and Matt Lieberman from a story by Marc Ceccarelli & Kaz and Pam Brady.

The film is based on the SpongeBob SquarePants series created by Stephen Hillenburg.

Produced by Lisa Stewart, p.g.a., Pam Brady, and Aaron Dem, the film’s executive producers include Marc Ceccarelli, Vincent Waller, Pete Chiappetta, Anthony Tittanegro, and Andrew Lary.