Top 30 Worst CGI Movies of All Time Part 2/3

20. Escape From Planet Earth (2013)

This film is basically Planet 51 in reverse. On the Planet Baab, a blue alien named Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) sets off to planet Earth after hearing about SOS signals coming from that planet. He gets captured by General Shanker Saunderson (William Shatner), and now, it’s up to Scorch’s brother Gary (Rob Corddry) to save him. The film has generic character designs and a plot point that makes me laugh: Aliens from across the universe have been captured by humans to build impossible inventions, like Smartphones, the Internet, and even animated films. There’s even a Pixar reference with a caricature of John Lasseter!

19. Walking With Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie (2013)

Walking With Dinosaurs was a hybrid feature that would bring viewers to how Earth was like 70 million years ago. The film was originally going to have no dialogue, but the executives at 20^th Century Fox, who distributed the film, felt like the viewers would emphasize with the characters more if the dinosaurs would talk. At the last minute, Justin Long, John Leguizamo, Skyler Stone, and Angourie Rice recorded voices for four of the dinosaurs. The end result was a movie with beautiful animation interacting fruitfully with live-action landscapes, but is dominated by a clumsy script with infantile humor. However, when Walking With Dinosaurs was released on Blu-Ray in March 2014, there is an audio option called the ‘Cretaceous Cut’, which featured the film without the dinosaurs talking.

18. Free Birds (2013)
 

This movie is basically a cross between Chicken Run and Back to the Future. Reggie (Owen Wilson), a pardoned turkey, has been picked by Jake (Woody Harrelson) to go back in time with him to the 17^th century to stop turkeys from being on the Thanksgiving menu. Free Birds may not be as horrible as later films on this list, but it has a corny plot and tone with some mediocre animation. Thankfully, Reel FX Creative Studios, the animation house behind Free Birds, redeemed themselves with The Book of Life, which made it into my Top 30 Best CGI Movies countdown. Also, like Rachel said in this video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHrcO_sou7g
Jake and Reggie landed in the wrong time period. Turkey was not a major course at the first Thanksgiving. In fact, turkey didn't become a Thanksgiving tradition until at least the 1940s.

17. Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)

If you thought The Ant Bully was bad (which I don’t think so), then Arthur and the Invisibles is even worse. The story is about a young boy named Arthur (Freddie Highmore), who is in danger of losing his home from real estate agents. Through his deceased grandfather’s clues and a book about tiny creatures called the ‘Minimoys’, Arthur finds the tribe, turns into a Minimoy himself, and sets on a journey with Princess Selenia (Madonna) and her brother Betameche (Jimmy Fallon) to save Arthur’s home. If you look back at my review of The Ant Bully, you can tell that I partially enjoyed it, but Arthur and the the Invisibles bored me half to death. My thoughts of The Ant Bully are in this link below.
http://asateriale.blogspot.com/2016/03/movie-review-ant-bully-2-27-16-in-2006.html

16. The Wild (2006)

What would happen if you combined The Lion King and Finding Nemo, two of the most popular animated films of all time, and put in a drop of DreamWorks' Madagascar? You get an animated film with out-of-place designs and forgettable side characters. The Wild is about a lion named Samson (Kiefer Sutherland), who lives in the Central Park Zoo with his son Ryan (Greg Cipes). Wanting to be like his father, Ryan escapes to Africa. Now it's up to Samson, along with his friends Benny the squirrel (Jim Belushi), Nigel the koala (Eddie Izzard), Larry the anaconda (Richard Kind), and Bridget the giraffe (Janeane Garofalo) to escape from New York to Africa, as well as saving Ryan from being eaten by wildebeests who are tired of being at the bottom of the food chain. While The Wild may be more pleasant to look at than Madagascar, the film suffers from uneven storytelling and an odd choice for an antagonist: a wildebeest voiced by William Shatner.

15. Fly Me To The Moon (2008)

Fly Me To The Moon is said to be the first animated film to be created for stereoscopic 3D. The film takes place in 1969, and young fly Nat dreams of being an adventurer like his grandfather. Along with his friends, IQ and Scooter, Nat hitches a ride on the Apollo 11 rocket ship heading to the moon. However, the Russian flies are jealous, and will do anything to prevent Nat, IQ, and Scooter from coming home. Fly Me To The Moon has a juvenile script that feels like it was written by a ten-year-old, animation that mirrors the early days of Pixar, and lots of corny fly puns.
14. The Hero of Color City (2014)
 
A good way to describe this movie is like Toy Story with crayons. Whenever Ben, a young human boy, goes to sleep, the crayons in his room come to life. When the cowardly Yellow gets left behind, she meets an unfinished drawing named King Scrawl, and follows her to Color City. Tired of being just white, Scrawl blocks the Colorfalls, where the crayons get their color. Without the falls, the color from the crayons would fade away. Now Yellow, along with cool Blue, timekeeping Green, sassy Red, and twins Black and White to find Scrawl and save Color City from disappearing. The Hero of Color City has a poorly-written plot, bad animation, unlikable characters, jokes that don't make sense, and degrading songs, though there's only three in the whole film. It's hard to believe this movie was even released in theaters!

13. Strange Magic (2015)

Oh, George Lucas. Why did you have to be involved with this Frozen knockoff? Based on William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Strange Magic is about a fairy named Marianne, who wants to search for true love, and finds it in the most unlikely place. Strange Magic is a mess with a forgettable plot, unoriginal characters, and unnecessary needle drops, though the animation is near Pixar quality.

12. Alpha and Omega (2010)

Alpha and Omega is an animated tale about two different wolves: a carefree omega wolf named Humphrey (Justin Long) and a reindeer-hunting alpha wolf named Kate (Hayden Panettiere), who have nothing in common. When they are taken from their home in Canada to Idaho, the two wolves have to journey back home together, whether they like it or not. I am aware there are some people that love this film, but I’m personally not too fond of it. The animation is mediocre, the story is clichéd and predictable, and the side characters are annoying. Also, this was one of the last movies for Dennis Hopper to be involved with, as he passed away before the film's premiere.

11. Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006)

The plot of Barnyard was basically a cross between Toy Story, The Lion King, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with farm animals. The story is about a carefree cow named Otis who has to protect his farm from coyotes. However, he spends more time on having parties and pranking humans. The film has no coherent storyline, bad character designs, and unfunny jokes. In fact, I think I’d prefer Home on the Range, which was also about farm animals, over Barnyard. To make matters worse, there was a Barnyard TV series, called Back at the Barnyard, which had worse animation, no continuity from the original film, and the absence of Daisy, the cow who was pregnant in the original movie.