20 Essential Movie Moments That Will Define 2016

18. The Rock As A Fat Teenager - Central Intelligence

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The Moment: A flashback to brutal CIA agent Bob Stone's childhood reveals that he was an overweight geek of a teenager, resulting in one terminally embarrassing incident where he sings and dances in the shower, gets grabbed by the local jocks and thrown out onto the school's basketball court in the nude. Mass humiliation ensues.

Why It Will Define 2016: Because does it get much weirder than this? You've got to admire Dwayne Johnson's commitment to his work, not just maintaining his insane workout regime but agreeing to have his face digitally grated onto an obese teenager.

Yes, the CGI is creepily offputting more than it is believable, but that's exactly why everyone will be talking about it, and why it'll probably end up as one of the year's most bizarre moments we couldn't look away from. If the rest of the movie maintains such a demented sense of humour rather than just being a Ride Along retread, we could be in for a surprising treat.

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