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In a moment of corporate synergy, Paramount Global opened all its Super Bowl broadcasts with SpongeBob’s rendition of “Sweet Victory” (from the fan-favorite episode “Band Geeks”).

SpongeBob and Patrick, like Odysseus, also battle a cyclops in the form of a human in an old-fashioned diver suit. The film even adapts The Odyssey's meta-narrative of being a story-within-a-story ...