Top 10 Worst CGI in Movies

Marvel's groundbreaking cultural milestone was undermined by a climactic fight scene featuring two rubber-looking CGI figures bouncing off mine cart rails. The jarring quality gap between the film's practical Wakanda sets and its digital finale became a symbol of MCU effects crunch.

Dwayne Johnson's CGI scorpion-human hybrid looked like an unfinished PlayStation 2 cutscene even by 2001 standards. The effect was so bad that it retroactively cheapened the entire film and remains the go-to example of rushed blockbuster visual effects.

When Cavill could not shave his mustache due to Mission: Impossible contractual obligations, Warner Bros. digitally removed it in reshoots. The resulting rubbery upper lip on Superman became the most mocked visual effect in superhero cinema history.

Robert Zemeckis's motion-capture Christmas film trapped Tom Hanks and child characters in the deepest depths of the uncanny valley. The dead-eyed, waxy faces of the children were so unsettling that the film inadvertently became a holiday horror experience.

Spielberg's return to practical effects was betrayed by CGI prairie dogs, unconvincing jungle vines for Shia LaBeouf to swing on, and a nuclear explosion survived inside a refrigerator. The rubber gopher opening scene set a disheartening tone for the entire film.

The climactic battle featuring a CGI-enhanced Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool with swords growing from his arms looked unfinished. An early workprint leak confirmed the effects were barely beyond previsualization when the film was released.

Guillermo del Toro's otherwise entertaining sequel featured vampires that dissolved into CGI rubber dummies upon death. The contrast between the film's excellent practical creature design and its cartoonish digital death effects remains jarring.

Francis Lawrence's adaptation replaced practical zombie extras with completely digital Darkseekers that looked like angry crash test dummies. The decision to go fully CGI for the creatures undermined Will Smith's committed performance and the film's otherwise tense atmosphere.

DreamWorks' underwater comedy grafted celebrity faces onto fish bodies, creating deeply unsettling human-fish hybrids. Will Smith as a fish with Will Smith's face and Angelina Jolie as a fish with Angelina Jolie's lips represent a creative nadir for mainstream animation.

Marvel's groundbreaking cultural milestone was undermined by a climactic fight scene featuring two rubber-looking CGI figures bouncing off mine cart rails. The jarring quality gap between the film's practical Wakanda sets and its digital finale became a symbol of MCU effects crunch.

Dwayne Johnson's CGI scorpion-human hybrid looked like an unfinished PlayStation 2 cutscene even by 2001 standards. The effect was so bad that it retroactively cheapened the entire film and remains the go-to example of rushed blockbuster visual effects.

When Cavill could not shave his mustache due to Mission: Impossible contractual obligations, Warner Bros. digitally removed it in reshoots. The resulting rubbery upper lip on Superman became the most mocked visual effect in superhero cinema history.

Robert Zemeckis's motion-capture Christmas film trapped Tom Hanks and child characters in the deepest depths of the uncanny valley. The dead-eyed, waxy faces of the children were so unsettling that the film inadvertently became a holiday horror experience.

Spielberg's return to practical effects was betrayed by CGI prairie dogs, unconvincing jungle vines for Shia LaBeouf to swing on, and a nuclear explosion survived inside a refrigerator. The rubber gopher opening scene set a disheartening tone for the entire film.

The climactic battle featuring a CGI-enhanced Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool with swords growing from his arms looked unfinished. An early workprint leak confirmed the effects were barely beyond previsualization when the film was released.

Guillermo del Toro's otherwise entertaining sequel featured vampires that dissolved into CGI rubber dummies upon death. The contrast between the film's excellent practical creature design and its cartoonish digital death effects remains jarring.

Francis Lawrence's adaptation replaced practical zombie extras with completely digital Darkseekers that looked like angry crash test dummies. The decision to go fully CGI for the creatures undermined Will Smith's committed performance and the film's otherwise tense atmosphere.

DreamWorks' underwater comedy grafted celebrity faces onto fish bodies, creating deeply unsettling human-fish hybrids. Will Smith as a fish with Will Smith's face and Angelina Jolie as a fish with Angelina Jolie's lips represent a creative nadir for mainstream animation.