#14: Jurassic Park (1993)
Steven Spielberg did the impossible with Jurassic Park; he brought dinosaurs back to life. Nothing quite compares to the magic audiences felt as the doors swing open to this brand-new nature preserve, unveiling a herd of CGI brachiosaurus so lifelike you’d swear you could touch them.
This mega-hit remains the standard for some of the best integration of puppetry and CGI to create an entirely fictional world that feels as real as the characters inhabiting it.