So once again Nickelodeon disregards Stephen Hillenburg's wishes by now making an entire 45 minute special for the original show but in complete relation to its controversial prequel spin-off Kamp Koral.
Like many have said, Kamp Koral is not a good SpongeBob series and not solely because of the fact that the creator would rather Nickelodeon didn't make spin-offs of the show. It's because it takes away a lot of the magic of the original SpongeBob series and it wants us to believe in unnecessary watered down retellings of the characters' origins like SpongeBob meeting Sandy. So this is basically just a Halloween special of Kamp Koral but the characters are grown up for a reunion at the now abandoned camp.
This special just has the same problems from the OG series as well as the spin-off, characters do random stuff for no reason, has unfunny jokes, relies too heavily on slapstick, certain characters like Bubble Bass, Kevin, Nosferatu are just shoehorned recurring characters which ruined the point of their one time or really rare appearances in the classic seasons, and there's barely even a plot. The overly exaggerated expressions in the animation have been toned down fortunately as that's been a problem for a while with SpongeBob, but it isn't saying much.
With the tiny exception of the camp being abandoned, there really isn't anything scary or intriguing about what happens in the special, because most of the time it's just characters being unnecessarily random and it goes on for way longer than it should even when each gets taken by "the creeper" it's really not taken seriously. The creeper's twist at the end is also really disappointing and just makes this feel more like a generic modern SpongeBob episode.
This special just has the same problems that we've seen in general in SpongeBob media. I feel like even children may get bored with watching this, it's that underwhelming. Please just watch the classic SB Halloween episodes and the Legends of Boo-kini Bottom stop motion special, those deserved the hype.
Like many have said, Kamp Koral is not a good SpongeBob series and not solely because of the fact that the creator would rather Nickelodeon didn't make spin-offs of the show. It's because it takes away a lot of the magic of the original SpongeBob series and it wants us to believe in unnecessary watered down retellings of the characters' origins like SpongeBob meeting Sandy. So this is basically just a Halloween special of Kamp Koral but the characters are grown up for a reunion at the now abandoned camp.
This special just has the same problems from the OG series as well as the spin-off, characters do random stuff for no reason, has unfunny jokes, relies too heavily on slapstick, certain characters like Bubble Bass, Kevin, Nosferatu are just shoehorned recurring characters which ruined the point of their one time or really rare appearances in the classic seasons, and there's barely even a plot. The overly exaggerated expressions in the animation have been toned down fortunately as that's been a problem for a while with SpongeBob, but it isn't saying much.
With the tiny exception of the camp being abandoned, there really isn't anything scary or intriguing about what happens in the special, because most of the time it's just characters being unnecessarily random and it goes on for way longer than it should even when each gets taken by "the creeper" it's really not taken seriously. The creeper's twist at the end is also really disappointing and just makes this feel more like a generic modern SpongeBob episode.
This special just has the same problems that we've seen in general in SpongeBob media. I feel like even children may get bored with watching this, it's that underwhelming. Please just watch the classic SB Halloween episodes and the Legends of Boo-kini Bottom stop motion special, those deserved the hype.