Ranking Every De-aging Movie Effect Ever

In another crude example of the tool's misuse, the Dwayne Johnson/Kevin Hart comedy Central Intelligence utilized it for a flashback. In the scene, a younger version of Johnson is serenading himself in the high school locker room showers when the younger Kevin Hart leads a group of bullies to his location to bully him. The gag here is that this younger version of Johnson is obese.

The effect itself is played for laughs, but it's still inexcusably terrible. Johnson's facial features are essentially just expanded and pasted onto the obese body, resulting in some truly horrifying effects when the body moves and Johnson's face doesn't move quite in sync with it.

It's also just kind of mind-boggling as to why the de-aging tech was used here. First off, the gag isn't that funny. Secondly, it would have been much less expensive to simply either put a practical fat-suit on Johnson or have another actor in the role. They didn't de-aged Kevin Hart for his character's role, so why waste money and resources to have Johnson de-aged for it?

It was all just for a cheap 'look, The Rock is fat!' gag, wasn't it?