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Practical Effects
Live-action Hasselhoff torpedo launch. Cinema peaked here.
Score
Goofy Goober Rock goes harder than most Oscar winners.
Direction
Hillenburg made a nautical epic with zero irony.

Director
Stephen Hillenburg
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