The King Is Dense

The Final Flight of the Osiris is a swift, exciting eleven minutes. It also is a demonstration of just how close computer animation is getting to generating completely believable virtual actors. At moments the technique is so good you're almost sure they've snuck in live-action footage. The rest of the time, the characters look slightly too smooth, as though they frequent Michael Jackson's fleet of plastic surgeons -- or similar, superior doctors, since they look more real than Jacko.