10 Worst Practical Effects In Movie History

The 90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies are an interesting case study in how good practical effects demand a high budget and lots of time. The first two movies had amazing costumes for the turtles, designed by none other than the talented puppeteers at the Jim Henson Company. However, Henson's creature shop doesn't come cheap, so when the budget was slashed for the third film, things took a turn for the worse.

The costumes we got for Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 do not hold a candle to the first film. Stiff, lifeless, trapped in a single blank facial expression - literally every pitfall that the Henson team narrowly avoided, the team for the third movie fell flat on its face into.

This made the problems that the suits of the first two movies faced even more apparent. The wide mouths make it easy to see the actors underneath, especially on modern TVs and monitors; the heavy costumes can be hard to move around in, and it's very obvious when the actor underneath is struggling. It all culminates into this surreal experience of a film that would almost be ironically compelling, if it weren't for all the puns.