Top 10 Fakest Movie Babies

“Junior” (1994)
In this sci-fi comedy, Arnold Schwarzenegger defies all kinds of scientific odds and becomes pregnant. After impregnating himself, he has a dream where he’s given birth and sees his baby for the first time. When he holds the baby in his hand, the first thing he notices is how closely his child resembles him - way too closely. Gap teeth and all. When a parent sees its child for the first time, it’s quite an experience. But it will never get as uncanny as big ol’ Arnie seeing his face photoshopped onto his kid.

“Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (2008)
When confronted by our titular hero, the elf Prince Nuada summons a massive forest god creature to kill Hellboy in the middle of the streets. As he gets ready to kill the creature, Hellboy saves a baby and carries it along. As he runs, we get to see very little of the wrapped-up baby. But when we finally get a look at it, a rubbery baby face appears. This is another situation where Hellboy saves the day in a messy way. He makes things worse by tossing the baby up towards the camera for its brief, not-so-cute close-up, while he loads his gun.

“Look Who's Talking” (1989)
This rom-com follows a woman throughout her pregnancy and the birth of her son, as she lives life as a single mom. Seemingly standard fare - that is until we start to hear the voice of the unborn baby in voice-over. While little Mikey continues to share his thoughts through narration when he enters the world, we want to focus on seeing the fetus inside Mollie’s womb after her water breaks. After his mother is given pain meds, we soon realize she’s not the only one being affected - as her baby ends up being stoned! Realistic much? We’re not doctors, but we’re pretty sure that’s not how it works….

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008)
As we all know, the story of Benjamin Button starts with him being born a wrinkly senior and dying an infant. When Queenie first finds old baby Benjamin on the doorsteps of the nursing home she works at, she’s shocked at his abnormal appearance and yet takes him in anyway. There were some amazing visual effects in this movie, but our first glimpse of Brad Pitt as a CGI elderly infant left a lot to be desired. It’s also a sharp contrast to when Queenie carries the baby into her room, when he seems suddenly still and lifeless.

“Kung Pow: Enter the Fist” (2002)
At the beginning of this cult classic martial-arts parody, the hero known as the Chosen One escapes death as a baby, only to come back as an adult to exact revenge. When he makes his mighty escape in the prologue, The Chosen One crawls to a rough stony hill and rolls down it, without a scratch. Of course the baby WOULD survive with only dirt on him, because the rolling was all done by a stiff plastic baby doll, with the same footage repeated over and over again. It’s fake, but so delightfully fake!

“Trainspotting” (1996)
In Danny Boyle’s dark comedy classic, jobless heroin addict Renton, played by Ewan McGregor, is forced to go cold turkey by his family. During this time in his bedroom, he goes through a very intense withdrawal, during which he hallucinates seeing Dawn, the dead baby of his addict friend Sick Boy, crawling on his ceiling. As it approaches, the baby moves very mechanically, like a wind-up doll, and its enlarged rotating head only makes it look more so. For some this may be distracting, but for others it just might add to the eerie effect of the scene.

“Baby Geniuses” (1999)
The idea of intelligent babies leading a sci-fi action adventure sounds fun on paper. But it might have worked better in animation. In live-action, the premise is a lot more cringe than cute. Here, when the baby stars perform stunts in action sequences, it’s either obviously an older stunt double, or an older stunt double with a CGI head pasted on top. In scenes where they’re talking, either the dubbing is off or their mouths just look . . . really weird. And even though the sequel that absolutely no one asked for came out five years later, the effects just seemed to get glaringly worse.

“Son of the Mask” (2005)
Among the many cinematic sins made by this sequel to Jim Carrey’s ssssmokin’ hit The Mask, the presence of baby Alvey sticks out like a sore thumb. Conceived by Tim Avery while wearing the magical mask, this baby possesses all the powers of the mask and puts them to use way too often. Whenever he uses his powers to play with their mask-possessed puppy, he turns from real-life human baby to a cartoony CGI-rubber brat. We get it- it’s impossible for someone to do stunts for a baby, but wasn’t it possible to at least make CGI Alvey look more like his human self instead of a hybrid stretchy/baby doll?

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2” (2012)
Bella and Edward’s baby is meant to be a miraculous and preternatural child. And you can tell that the filmmakers tried to make her face more animated for that reason. But why did she have to look so… animated? Right from the moment Rosalie introduces Bella -and us- to Baby Renesmee, it’s impossible to look away from what looks like an older, very expressive baby’s face floating on top. To make matters worse, she gets quite a lot of close-ups to put that creepy face in our faces. But then again, good thing they went animated and not animatronic like they originally planned.

Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.

Zombie Baby
“Dawn of the Dead” (2004)

Satan’s Man-Baby
“The Passion of the Christ” (2004)

A Baby That’s a Blanket
“Undercover Blues” (1993)

Roundabout Baby
“Shoot ‘Em Up” (2007)

“American Sniper” (2014)
Topping off our list is the brief appearance made by this doll baby in Clint Eastwood’s war drama. When he returns from a mission to meet his newborn daughter, Chris Kyle, played by Bradley Cooper, and his wife Taya, played by Sienna Miller, have an introspective conversation about their relationship and his absence from the family. But what takes most of us away from the scene is the baby in Chris’ hands. When it switches from the arms of mother to father, the baby clearly becomes motionless. Afterwards, Cooper is clearly puppeteering it with his thumb. Eastwood is known for his brisk and efficient filming style, but this is a little too much.