10 Most Unnecessary Times Star Wars Used CGI

10. Anakin Floats A Pear - Attack Of The Clones

Because devoting so much of Attack of the Clones' screen time to the toe-curlingly corny romance between Anakin (Hayden Christensen) and Padme (Natalie Portman) apparently wasn't bad enough already, George Lucas had to throw overzealous VFX nonsense into the mix, too.

Who among us can forget the infamous scene on Naboo where Anakin and Padme are having dinner, and he uses his Force powers to steal Padme's pear off her plate, slice it up, and then levitate a chunk back to her?

Even ignoring the fact that eating a pear with cutlery is serial killer-tier behaviour, it's painfully obvious that the pear is a digital asset rather than the real deal. If you look closely when Anakin cuts into it with his knife, the physics just don't look quite right.

More to the point, the pear is excessively shiny in the way that the real-life fruit wouldn't be, further underlining its artifice.

While the gag itself is basically pointless, it could've been achieved practically with relative ease on a $115 million production. After all, how much does fishing wire and a couple of pulleys cost?

Yet George Lucas' borderline-fetish for using CGI wherever possible in the prequels led to utterly bizarre moments like this.