Great Movie, Bad Aspect

[TheWildWhelk]

Originally Posted by CompleteCount

It didn't look great at the time - the effects in the first one hold up better. Given the quality of the GCI and it being at the climax of the movie, the whole sorry affair came across as an end-of-level "boss".

It was a rush job; ILM never planned on the Scorpion King beast being entirely CG, it was to be a mixture of green screened Dwayne Johnson and a CG body below the waist. It didn't work out, so the whole character was replaced.