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The Unborn
A young woman is possessed by the spirit of her twin brother who never made it to term in this film directed by esteemed horror writer David S. Goyer.
"...dreadfully dull film stems from visual effects – some CGI but some better ones, including something ghastly with way..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marley & Me
Sweet and wise and often laugh-out-loud funny (just like Grogan's book), Marley & Me, starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, isn't just for dog people.
"...amazing drooly thesps these days. Never mind the frisky CGI superheroics of Bolt or the teary mawkishness of Old..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Day the Earth Stood Still
This dull, unnecessary remake of the 1951 science-fiction classic features Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly in a wooden cautionary tale.
"...the equally wooden Reeves and then ladles on the CGI destruction to little effect. Wise's film had a stately..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mongol
Kazakhstan's Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film is an epic drama about the early years of Genghis Khan.
"...groaning, horse-mounted skirmishes galore (replete with lakes of arterial CGI gore), but by the time the film's abrupt conclusion..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Incredible Hulk
Finally, the Hulk is truly incredible. As of right now, it's Marvel's universe; we just live in it.
"...stops moving. At the film's core, under its rippling CGI/motion-capture musculature, lies the classic dramatic crucible of unrequited love,..."

June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
If you're looking for escape, then the fourth installment in the beloved cliff-hanging archaeological-adventure franchise should fit the bill.
"...with Spielberg's tendency to overburnish his film with a CGI wash. It casts a particularly grating sheen over the..."

May 23, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Look, Ma, All Hands
Hammer & Tongs on why their Eighties-era childhood epic Son of Rambow is the anti-CGI
"...for real. It was all done in-camera, with no CGI...."

May 16, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Speed Racer
The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.
"...Former Matrices the Wachowski brothers populate their shiny, happy, CGI-drenched Hot Wheels world with living, breathing, identifiably organic actors:..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Man Japan
Midnight madness doesn't begin to categorize this bizarre Japanese superhero/monster movie.
"...from Japanese monster movies, mockumentaries, comedies, and downright demented CGI fantasies. Matsumoto, a huge TV celebrity in Japan, directs,..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Forbidden Kingdom
There are plenty of comic moments and some seriously kickass fight scenes in this film that co-stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
"...of the traditional wirework and not nearly as much CGI (which almost always feels like a cheat in the..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

10,000 B.C.
After all those cataclysmic movies like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, it seems right that Roland Emmerich has now turned his focus to the beginnings of civilization.
"...are considerably more nuanced), and sporting some awfully shoddy CGI effects (the woolly mammoths are up to par, but..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, is an engagingly sordid meditation on protofeminism.
"...the court of Henry VIII (there's some impressively invisible CGI work going on in the background of several sequences),..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Uwe Boll, the Timex watch of contemporary filmmakers (he takes a licking but keeps on ticking), strikes again.
"...who slipped the LSD in your Coke, cheesily bad CGI effects, and enough frenetic, semiepic battle sequences – expertly..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
This adventure fantasy about a boy's involvement with a mysterious animal is also a period story about childhood anxieties.
"...– and unthreateningly, to younger members – well-designed, via CGI and more tactile effects work. Despite the title, this..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am Legend
After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.
"...into a monster-movie malaise starring a horde of balding CGI monsters that look like refugees from a video game..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Alvin and the Chipmunks
What's it all about, Alvin? This by-the-numbers attempt at a chipmunk revival is not bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
"...of Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and Jr. have arrived via CGI in this live-action update/companion to the Bagdasarian family's lengthy..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Iorek Is Hot! The Sun Is Gay!
Andy hearts Iorek!
"...on war and combat. Who better to voice this CGI marvel that the Queen of the Theater herssself: Ian..."

Dec. 12, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The District!
This animated Hungarian feature is equal parts South Park and Magyar-inflected hip-hop, and an altogether smart, urban riff on Romeo and Juliet.
"...its quasi-East-meets-West Side Story and freaky mélange of 3-D, CGI-rendered animation and rough-hewn cut ’n’ paste style – not..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dragon Wars: D-War
Based on a Korean legend, Dragon Wars is the fantasy story of a reporter who unearths the truth about catastrophic L.A. earthquakes and sets off to save the city.
"...that Shim's film triumphs, if only briefly. Scores of CGI artisans labored on the film to bring the dragons..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Legion
Although this story of ancient Rome offers guilty-pleasure fun, the film is not very inspired or well-conceived.
"...it can be forgiven if The Last Legion's cruddy CGI-designed vision of Rome in AD426 looks like it could..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Transformers
What matters most about Transformers isn't subtext (this is Michael Bay after all), but what happens when big, loud, heavy things bang into other differently colored big, loud, heavy things.
"...action/sci-fi clichés that works, mostly, thanks to some ingenious CGI work courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic and the..."

July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Free or Die Hard
As John McClane, Bruce Willis once more brings the noise and blows the bejesus out of the bad guys.
"...more real Detroit iron (as opposed to the usual CGI trickery) – Live Free or Die Hard's appeal rests..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Watch
The second in a Russian science-fiction trilogy is a fantastic sight to behold, but don't try explaining the plot.
"...budget than Night Watch, which has resulted in more CGI effects. (One scene, in which a car traverses the..."

June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Surf's Up
This animated avian surf epic is most alive when its radio-friendly pop hits accompany beautiful CGI waves.
"...calls for radio-friendly pop hits accompanying beauty footage of CGI waves. There’s nothing terribly wrong with Surf’s Up, except..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

TMNT
Back on the screen for the first time since the early Nineties, the Ninja Turtles are now animated via CGI, though their plot and character details got lost in the shuffle.
"...the early Nineties, the turtles are now animated via CGI and no longer wearing their Jim Henson hard shells...."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bridge to Terabithia
This excellent screen version of the Newbery-winning novel is not about fairies and enchanted forests but about kids who feel as though they don't fit in.
"...understand it, so they emphasize its weakest parts: the CGI animation, the moments of running back and forth upon..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Happily N'Ever After
The animated Happily N'Ever After isn't just cynically humorless, it's shoddy-looking to boot.
"...animated in a schizophrenic mix of hand-drawn animation and CGI, to resemble a bobbed Audrey Hepburn-cum-"Torn"-era Natalie Imbruglia, which..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Happy Feet
Raise your flippers in praise of these animated yet flightless fowl, who sing and dance and fight the eco-wars.
"...singing and dancing throughout is charmingly presented, and the CGI re-creations of Antarctica are stunning, allowing the film to..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snakes on a Plane
This solid little B-movie arrives cloaked in the dodgy garb of a fanboy phenomenon.
"...a killer-snake movie, although with the sinewy legions of CGI wrigglers on board this production, it's tempting to think..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
Yet another computer-animated film about talking animals offers a fine message for the kids, but little originality.
"...Steve Oedekerk decided to remake The Lion King with CGI farm animals is up for debate, but it certainly..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

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