VFX Bloopers that Will Tickle your Funny Bone

Millions of dollar and thousands of hours are spend in making and editing a movie. But sometimes there are cracks and then there are mistakes. What happens when these two meet you wonder? You are treated to a world of funny VFX bloopers that will tickle you. Here are a list of funny VFX bloopers which slipped through the cracks.

Jurassic World

The 2015 American science fiction adventure film directed by Colin Trevorrow, is a movie which tried to use as many real life effects when possible. But even they weren’t spared the usual goof up. The scene when Owen rescues a worker from the raptor paddock, three raptors in front of him, the shadows of Owen and the raptors are in different directions. This is not easily caught, but you can’t unsee it once you see it.

The Matrix Reloaded

Everyone knows the ever-famous burly brawl. After Neo takes the pole for the fight with the Smiths, we have shots of Neo fighting with the pole. In those shots, we can see that Neo and the pole are computer-made. This becomes even more obvious because Neo was crushed into a wall and got all dirty before using the pole, and the computer-made Neo is completely clean. This is one of the noticeable “Matrix bloopers” fans love to point out, especially since the pole Neo uses to fight off the thousands of Smiths bends quite a few times during the fight.

Ang Lee’s The Hulk:

The Hulk by Ang Lee is often called an abomination to the world of VFX. Apart from a Hulk hat was too green to even look realistic there was one blooper that I don’t think everyone noticed. In this scene, the Hulk’s pants looks like a second skin, which in itself looks weird but then add movements like walking and it does this.

I have never seen pants do that in all my years on earth! Some viewers even find humour in scenes where characters like Hulk move in ways that almost seem out of place, akin to tickle scenes in movies that evoke unintentional laughs due to awkward visuals.

Race 2

In the scene when the Car behind Saif Ali Khan blows up, you can easily spot how the actual car changes into a dummy one. I know that you can’t just blow up cars whenever you want. But making the switch look a little realistic never hurt no one now did it? It’s a classic case of funny VFX moments where the transition feels so obvious that it adds an unintended bit of humour to the scene.

The Crawlers aka Troll 3:

If you watch the scene below carefully, you can see that right before the helicopter blows up, it turns into a toy! And here I thought an actual helicopter was supposed to blow up.

Along Came a Spider

A little bit of physics can take you a long way, especially in VFX. The car crash in Along Came a Spider looks like it’s been pulled from a low-grade game and defies all the rules of physics. The crash’s speed and severity don’t seem to match up, nor do the absurd number of flips that the car performs before becoming conveniently hooked on some wiring on the edge of the bridge. This is one of those funny VFX moments where the scene’s intended suspense shifts to unintentional humour because of how exaggerated the physics are.

Ghost Rider

When Johnny Blaze discovers his transformation into the demon hunter Ghost Rider, he pauses to look at himself in the mirror. There is no problem in the scene, except for his abs, which are unreal.

The Mummy Returns

The emergence of the Scorpion King was hyped up from the beginning of the film, but his emergence at the end was downright disappointing. The Scorpion King barely resembles The Rock. At times his eyes seem to melt off of his face. I am sure Dwayne must have been really embarrassed to see this version of him on screen.

Hey, now, everyone makes mistakes! Only sometimes are they hilarious, almost like tickle scenes in movies that make us laugh when they’re least expected.

Anoop Chaphekar

Last updated: December 18, 2024

A Fine Arts Graduate, Anoop brings 20+ yrs experience in the VFX and Animation industry. He brings his expertise in Animation-VFX for Television Commercials to Visual Effects for feature films, TV and Web series.