If you’re like me and couldn’t get Ice Spice‘s earworm of a song, ‘Big Guy,” out of your head last holiday season, you’re in for a treat this month. Paramount finally revealed the streaming date for the latest hit film starring one of Nickelodeon’s most popular characters, SpongeBob SquarePants. If you’re not already a Paramount+ subscriber, what are you waiting for?
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants will start streaming exclusively on Paramount+ on February 17, 2026. That’s right, starting tomorrow, you can watch everyone’s favorite underwater invertebrate in his fourth theatrical movie from the comfort of your own home.
What Is ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ About?
SpongeBob’s latest adventure involves The Flying Dutchman (Mark Hamill), a ghost pirate who is unintentionally summoned when SpongeBob discovers Mr. Krabs’ (Clancy Brown) secret stash of old pirate relics. Determined to prove his bravery, he and Patrick Star (Bill Fagerbakke) accept The Flying Dutchman’s offer to set sail with his undead crew.
But the unsuspecting duo doesn’t know that the Dutchman is really using them to gain back his mortality and become the pirate everyone on land and sea fears the most. Can Mr. Krabs, Squidward Tentacles (Rodger Bumpass) and Gary the Snail (also Kenney) warn them in time to save them and stop the Dutchman’s evil plan?
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Who Stars in ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’?
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants features the hit show’s regular cast (Kenny, Brown, Bumpass, Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks and Mr. Lawrence as Plankton) along with a starry supporting cast that includes Hamill, George Lopez, Arturo Castro, Sherry Cola and One Battle After Another’s Regina Hall.
Is ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Worth Streaming?
Yes! There’s a reason SpongeBob SquarePants has been a bit of a hit with adults and children since it premiered in 1999. Over a quarter century later, the franchise is still going strong, and The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is the most entertaining movie in the series. Hamill’s Dutchman is a worthy SpoingeBob villain, and the film gives the popular supporting character Mr. Krabs the spotlight he deserves.
Don’t believe me? Listen to the many critics who lavished praise on the movie. On Rotten Tomatoes, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants has an 80 percent approval rating on the Tomatometer, suggesting widespread approval for the film.
Where Can I Watch Ice Spice’s “Big Guy” Music Video?
I provided the music video below. But be warned — once you listen to “Big Guy,” like it or hate it, you won’t get it out of your head.
Stream The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants February 17 on Paramount+.
