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Spinoff of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) with the characters reimagined as children. SpongeBob is a kid camper who spends his summer catching jellyfish, building campfires, and swimming in La... Read allSpinoff of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) with the characters reimagined as children. SpongeBob is a kid camper who spends his summer catching jellyfish, building campfires, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck.Spinoff of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) with the characters reimagined as children. SpongeBob is a kid camper who spends his summer catching jellyfish, building campfires, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck.
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- TriviaTom Kenny admitted that the animator shift to CGI initially caught him, some of his fellow-cast members, and even series creator Stephen Hillenburg by surprise. He stated in a interview "Hillenburg and we were a little unsure about the CGI thing. SpongeBob is such a determinedly 2D classic animated looking show." But their wariness was calmed by the producers of the new series, who were also responsible for the still-running original series, "They were able to find a way to take that CGI and lend it the same squashy, stretchy, kinetic, the craziness of 2D, classic animation. That was a puzzle they worked really, really hard to figure out, and I think are still learning on Kamp Koral. I think it's fun to have to learn new tricks when you've been doing something for a while."
- ConnectionsFeatured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: The Camping Episode (2019)
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Well here it is, and I am not surprised...
Alright so let's get the elephant out of the room. Kamp Koral has been controversial way before it even made its release. And the controversy continued for an obvious reason that Stephen Hillenburg had said that he did not want any spin-offs from SpongeBob SquarePants. I know that Nickelodeon had negotiated with Hillenburg before with like the first SpongeBob Movie, but that actually did well and Nickelodeon atleast made sure everyone was keeping SpongeBob true to the heart. Now he did know about this show's production, but nowhere did it say that he had approved of it.
Anyway, since this show just HAD to happen, I want to review why the show itself doesn't work. 2021 has probably been the worst year for Nicktoons. I don't know one good Nicktoon that came out that year, and this is probably the highlight of them all. One reason this show doesn't capture the magic of the original SpongeBob series is because it makes all the characters children. This is like one of those baby spin-offs like Muppet Babies or Madagascar: a Little Wild where they make something for younger audiences to simply be cute and sometimes educational. This ruins the whole point of SpongeBob. We love how the characters seem ageless and the environment they live in is timeless. Here, they are all watered down to younger audiences with younger personalities and gives the series very little to work with. This was the problem with Sponge on the Run that basically just advertised this series with the flashback scenes. The episodes don't have much of a story either, they're basically just a series of events that try to be funny, but because of how watered down this show has to be, the jokes never hit.
And of course, this show has a noticeable continuity error just like in Sponge on the Run. SpongeBob met Sandy at Bikini Bottom in the original series when they were older, not at a camping event as children. I get that SpongeBob is flawed with continuity in general, but literally something against how the characters meet doesn't pull through.
The animation also looks flawed, I will say that this isn't the worst CGI depiction of SpongeBob and the others. But because the animators are on a television budget, they can barely translate the animation style from 2D into 3D with good quality. SpongeBob actually looked good in CGI from movie appearances, but for a show, it barely looks right. The designs do capture the expressions nicely, but after a while they became uncanny to look at in such stiff jolted movements. The backgrounds are also not rendered very well and lack detail like in the original show. And there is very little lighting that makes some scenes look like they were green-screened. The CGI just doesn't fit well with these 2D characters on a smaller budget.
Also this might not be as necessary to point out, but none of the voices sound young like they did in the scenes from Sponge on the Run. They all just sound grown up exactly like they sound in the original show which makes little to no sense if their voices were depicted to sound younger originally.
Anyway, this is the result of a SpongeBob spin-off and why Hillenburg didn't want this to happen. And sadly it fails to redeem SpongeBob and the others as who we love.
Anyway, since this show just HAD to happen, I want to review why the show itself doesn't work. 2021 has probably been the worst year for Nicktoons. I don't know one good Nicktoon that came out that year, and this is probably the highlight of them all. One reason this show doesn't capture the magic of the original SpongeBob series is because it makes all the characters children. This is like one of those baby spin-offs like Muppet Babies or Madagascar: a Little Wild where they make something for younger audiences to simply be cute and sometimes educational. This ruins the whole point of SpongeBob. We love how the characters seem ageless and the environment they live in is timeless. Here, they are all watered down to younger audiences with younger personalities and gives the series very little to work with. This was the problem with Sponge on the Run that basically just advertised this series with the flashback scenes. The episodes don't have much of a story either, they're basically just a series of events that try to be funny, but because of how watered down this show has to be, the jokes never hit.
And of course, this show has a noticeable continuity error just like in Sponge on the Run. SpongeBob met Sandy at Bikini Bottom in the original series when they were older, not at a camping event as children. I get that SpongeBob is flawed with continuity in general, but literally something against how the characters meet doesn't pull through.
The animation also looks flawed, I will say that this isn't the worst CGI depiction of SpongeBob and the others. But because the animators are on a television budget, they can barely translate the animation style from 2D into 3D with good quality. SpongeBob actually looked good in CGI from movie appearances, but for a show, it barely looks right. The designs do capture the expressions nicely, but after a while they became uncanny to look at in such stiff jolted movements. The backgrounds are also not rendered very well and lack detail like in the original show. And there is very little lighting that makes some scenes look like they were green-screened. The CGI just doesn't fit well with these 2D characters on a smaller budget.
Also this might not be as necessary to point out, but none of the voices sound young like they did in the scenes from Sponge on the Run. They all just sound grown up exactly like they sound in the original show which makes little to no sense if their voices were depicted to sound younger originally.
Anyway, this is the result of a SpongeBob spin-off and why Hillenburg didn't want this to happen. And sadly it fails to redeem SpongeBob and the others as who we love.
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- cte18
- Feb 4, 2022
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