The 1997 Live-Action/CGI-Animated One Season Wonder Van-Pires Was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Knock-Off We Never Knew We Never Needed

One of you kind souls paid me to experience one of the weirdest, most hypnotically awful kid’s shows of all time, a bizarre pastiche of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers realized through mesmerizingly terrible CGI.

The Travolta/Cage Project #81 The Ant Bully (2006)

Nicolas Cage is a lot of fun as a wizard ant, and Paul Giamatti, Bruce Campbell and Ricardo Montalban (in his final role) are a hoot in the otherwise dreadful., weirdly Marxist CGI kid’s flick The Ant Bully.

Exploiting the Archives: This Looks Terrible! Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa

Looking for the next crazy cult abomination? Then check out the infinite horrors of Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa.

This Looks TerribleNathan RabinDecember 6, 2021A talking cat, Cult, camp, CGI, animation, Mark Hamill, Clint Howard

My World of Flops Mars Needs Better Movies Case File #186 Mars Needs Moms (2011)

For Wild Disney Animation Month I finally get around to writing up one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, the staggeringly misguided CGI animated flop Mars Needs Moms, which ultimately takes place not on Mars or Earth but in the most nightmarish recesses of the uncanny valley.

My World of Flops Case File #118/My Year of Flops II #15 Furry Vengeance (2010)

Brendan Fraser’s longtime love affair with bad CGI hit a nadir with 2010’s Furry Vengeance, which pitted him against inconsistently anthropomorphized animals in an inter-species battle royale where everyone loses, audiences most of all.