10 Movie Scenes That Should've Used CGI

Now to be completely fair to 1995's original Jumanji, the film has its share of poorly-aged CGI that didn't even look particularly good at the time - namely those nightmare fuel-inducing digital monkeys.

But director Joe Johnston went purely practical for the memorable sequence where, near the end of the movie, the heroes are attacked by a fleet of giant spiders.

Said spiders are very obviously plastic animatronics, looking less like the articulate props you'd expect to see in a major Hollywood production than something that was rigged up at your local haunted house around Halloween.

This isn't to say the animatronics don't have a certain kitschy, slung-together charm of their own, but the fact that they're clearly being piloted mechanically undercuts how terrifying they should appear to the audience.

The limitations of animatronic movement also mean that when the spiders finally scuttle away, Johnston had no choice but to speed up the footage, which ends up looking silly in a bad way.

If there was anything in the movie worth devoting some VFX resources to, it was surely this.