As ‘The Flash’ Visual Effects Baffle Viewers, the Film’s Director Says the VFX Are ‘Intended’ to ‘Look a Little Weird to You’

Spoiler Alert: This story contains minor spoilers from “The Flash,” now playing in theaters nationwide.Reviews for Warner Bros.’ long-in-the-works “The Flash” movie have been largely favorable to mixed, but most critics agree the film is the latest comic book tentpole to suffer from unappealing visual effects.

Leaked scenes on social media have also led to fan bafflement over the film’s VFX, especially an opening sequence in which Ezra Miller’s superhero speeds to Gotham City to save a bunch of falling babies from a collapsing hospital.To say the VFX babies in “The Flash” opening scene are rendered in a hugely un-human way would be an understatement.

The same goes for all of the human characters who appear during the movie’s many time-travel sequences.

Suffice to say, none of them look human at all.In a recent interview with io9, “The Flash” director Andy Muschietti said he…

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