The Worst CGI Movie Moments Ever

In this digital age of movie making, CGI can make or break a film. Some, like 1993’s “Jurassic Park,” practically seamless.

And that movie still holds up today, nearly 25 years later. But others, like 2001’s “The Mummy Returns,” are, well, a little less seamless. And that’s despite coming along years later and with a much bigger budget. So this is our ode to the worst CGI movie moments.  These scene could have been great. So what happened?

Someone must have overlooked them during budget allocation. Or maybe the visual effects guy was on a long break while the scenes were rendering.

That Baby (“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2”)

Anyone who’s made it far enough into the “Twilight” series to see Renesmee, the creepy CGI baby born of brooding sparkles, probably deserves a goddam medal for not punching their TV screen sooner. But did you know that baby could have been a million times worse?

As in, animatronic Chucky doll worse.

Space Monkey (“Lost in Space”)

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Not that “Lost in Space” was an award-worthy film to begin with, but it did have a budget of $80 million, and one would assume that at least a portion of that would have gone to making a believable-ish space primate. Alas, what we were left with was, well, not that.

Scooby Doo (“Scooby Doo”)

It’s like they were trying to make Scooby look like a plastic version of the classic cartoon. But no amount of suspension of disbelief could ever make us buy into this terribly rendered great dane, regardless of how many crimes he’s able to solve with those other meddling kids.

Shark Attack (“Deep Blue Sea”)

We love us a good shark attack, but come on. Not only is the CGI shark in “Deep Blue Sea” of the caliber we’d expect from a Syfy movie, but they couldn’t even do justice to Samuel L. Jackson’s wetsuit-clad corporate exec. The man deserved better!