10 Movies Ruined By Creepy CGI

Despite being inexplicably nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature - yet mercifully losing to The Incredibles - Shark Tale was one of the worst animated films released by a major movie studio in the early 2000s.

Gliding in on the slipstream of Finding Nemo, which was released barely a year prior, Shark Tale is basically an animated marine parody of mob movies, to the extent that it stars the likes of Robert De Niro, Sopranos alums Michael Imperioli and Vincent Pastore, and even Martin Scorsese himself as a pufferfish loan shark.

There are far worse hooks for a movie, and yet Shark Tale is fatally undermined by its misguided attempt to make its aquatic cast resemble their human counterparts as closely as possible.

This is never worse than in the case of Will Smith's fish protagonist Oscar, who so closely mirrors the actual Smith as to be more beguiling than funny.

There's a reason why the overwhelming majority of animated films don't try to make their characters into actual facsimiles of their performers: it creeps everyone the hell out.