10 Worst Movie CGI Of 2020

We're long past the point of lamenting the presence of CGI in cinema nowadays - it's an element included in practically every movie in some form, no matter how low the budget, and no matter how much (or how little) attention it draws to itself.

And while exemplary visual effects work can often convincingly transport us to other worlds and sell incredible illusions - even if the film itself isn't that great - not all CGI is created equal as 2020 continued to prove.

Despite studios pouring up to $200 million into supposedly "cutting edge" productions, many of the year's biggest films featured at least one scene where the CGI just wasn't up to snuff - if not many, many more.

While Sonic the Hedgehog was smart enough to take the hit on a delay in order to fix its protagonist's much-loathed design, these 10 movies hit screens big or small with VFX-heavy scenes that either their budgets or their directors - or both - just couldn't satisfyingly execute.

On the bright side, though, at least nothing in 2020 looked as eye-gougingly awful as Cats...

Though The New Mutants is a relatively modest superhero movie for the most part, director Josh Boone evidently splashed a sizable chunk of his $80 million budget on the film's final, VFX-soaked set-piece.

The mutants end up facing off against the supernatural manifestation known as Demon Bear, a garish digital abomination that never once convinces as an actual, tangible threat.

Throw in Magik's (Anya Taylor-Joy) corny CGI-illuminated eyes and a brief segment where poor Maisie Williams tries to pretend she's riding on Demon Bear's back, and you have the recipe for a movie which clearly didn't have the tools at its disposal to achieve its ambitious vision.

As is the case with far too many superhero movies, The New Mutants turns into a chaotic, blurry mess during its climactic showdown.