Thumbs-up for the CGI

I've just rewatched this, and I have to say, for the budget and tools of the time, the CGI was impressive. The full-CGI characters, such as the warriors in the huge desert battle, always looked like they had real physics and were in the film landscape, rather than painted on top of it — contrast the recent Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, for instance, where the opening sequence looked like a video game at best.

Okay, the yetis maybe weren't completely successful, but they still interacted with the live-action elements more convincingly than a lot of more recent spectacle flicks have achieved. Maybe that's just what we were entitled to expect, in a film from the director who broke so much new ground way back when with Dragonheart.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.