The Saving the Surf Featurette is a brief four-minute look at all of the positive aspects of beaches, along with discussions about some of the pollution that destroys our oceans. When it comes to marine life, this is quite an informative featurette. It shows real sea sponges, sea stars, squids, crabs and plankton, and features narration by the director and creator himself. The Case of the Sponge “Bob” is a fifteen minute featurette that takes a child-like look the animation. It does, however, have a strange habit of freezing and defining some of the more unusual words that the contributors use - something that I find quite patronising and which seems to be a pointless feature as kids are unlikely to bother watching this featurette. It's quite an interesting documentary that features some behind the scenes footage of the voice actors in the recording studio and some nice titbits. Even the vastly underused Alec Baldwin - who made a recent comeback in The Cooler - pops up to talk about his hit-man character, Dennis and, along with David Hasselhoff, they both explain how they mainly did it to make their kids happy.
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Some of the voice actors explain their characters, including Clancy Brown, the bad guy in the excellent HBO series Carnivale, who here plays SpongeBob's boss Mr.Krabs, and the lovely Scarlett Johannson, from Lost in Translation, who plays the mermaid princess Mindy. He talks about the creation of the characters - how SpongeBob was supposed to embody the innocence and child-like qualities in all of us. He talks about the original concepts for the movie - bringing SpongeBob up into the real world - and how the whole SpongeBob idea enabled him to make the most of both the cartoon world and the sea world, both of which he loved. The Absorbing Tale Behind The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie is an eighteen minute Behind the Scenes Documentary featuring interviews with the writer/director Stephen Hillenburg.