The problem with reading too much into scenes like this is that cartoon humor these days is often vulgar and unsophisticated. Now that is kind of disgusting, I have to admit, but it does seem to be a crude attempt at humor, not at eroticism. Patrick also appears in the buff in another scene, swinging on a rope, with a flag that reads “SpongeBob” wedged between his buttocks. The next door neighbor, Patrick Star, who I guess is supposed to be some kind of starfish, appears nude briefly and shows off his buttocks, as does SpongeBob in another very brief scene (no pun intended).
That is good old-fashioned cartoon violence. That's not what I call homoeroticism, or pedophilia, for that matter. Anyway, Squidward did not appreciate SpongeBob's uninvited intrusion into his shower and promptly threw him through an upper story window. One critic thought he saw the showering character with a giant erection, but it was actually just one of his arms. This is one of those suggestive scenes that get the social conservatives riled up. He gets into the shower with a co-worker named Squidward. This particular film has to do with SpongeBob (who looks like a commercial sponge, not a real sponge) who is all giddy because he thinks he is going to be named the manager of the new Krusty Krab 2 restaurant.
I had not seen any SpongeBob SquarePants stuff before, including the TV show. It was very mildly amusing and not really disturbing although its humor is vulgar at times. It was more like a crude, trivial, silly movie aimed at children. Frankly, I didn't see a lot of that kind of stuff in the film. The film has also been attacked as promoting homosexuality. Ma- My colleague, Patrick Ivers, and I decided to review this movie after reading an article about how it was infested with sexual images relating to pedophilia. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie A silly kiddie movie by Robert Roten, Film Critic Laramie Movie Scope: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Laramie Movie Scope: