
The Polar Express - CGI Santa
After Final Fantasy this is probably the most successful attempt to computer generate human characters. The result of all this advanced motion capture technology is, however, just plain creepy. This is textbook Freudian 'uncanny': they look and act like humans but they clearly have no soul, which is disappointing because the people at Pixar could make a piece of pocket lint more charismatic than these 'spore people'. Santa is especially unnerving since you suspect that The Terminator face lies just under that beard.
Flexibility: 2/10 - About that of an action figure
Skin texture: 0/10
Luster of beard: 4/10 - A bit too lustrous