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LAUREN HUNTER, CNN Correspondent: It's the special effects odyssey of 2001.
[Unidentified Female] Come on, cutie frog.

HUNTER: A fantastic world where species mutate, cats and dogs fight for world domination and robots roamed the earth. Computergenerated imagery, or CGI, is all over theatre screens this summer.
[Robot] They made us too smart, too quick and too many.

HUNTER: Steven Spielberg's futuristic ""A.I."" blurs the line between real and robotic.
STAN WINSTON, Special Robotic Effects, ""A.I.
"": And it's unlike any movie that you've ever seen, because to compare it to any one movie is a mistake. It's its own thing, it's its own being, and it's beyond anything anybody's ever seen.

HUNTER: Stan Winston is also responsible for the effects in ""Jurassic Park III."" This model became the franchise's newest antagonist, a 44-foot, 13 ton, 1,000 horsepower Spinosaurus, battling T-Rex and the familiar Velociraptors.
Domestic animals are the stars of ""Cats and Dogs."" The film's 800 visual effects include live action, blue screen sets, animatronic puppetry and computer animation.
LARRY GUTERMAN, Dir.
, ""Cats and Dogs"": We mix the live dog in here with the CGI dog. We put the live dog in there and put expressions on his face. But when the dog gets, of course, punched across the room, we can't do that to a live dog, and we can't keep even the puppet dog animating while that's happening, so we have to use completely computergenerated imagery.

HUNTER: It took 5 years and 275 artists, animators, and engineers to bring Shrek to life.

VICKY JENSON, Co-director, ""Shrek"": They've built from the inside out. They've started with bones and muscles and layers of skin on top of that, and then our animators actually had to work in an anatomical way to know what muscles to pull.

HUNTER: And Hollywood magic brings Eddie Murphy and Archie the Bear together in ""Dr. Dolittle 2.""
STEVE CARR, Dir., ""Dr.
Dolittle 2"": They were never in the same place at the same time. It was all done through motion control camera and then put together, composited, so that it seemed like they were in the same space.

HUNTER: ""The Mummy Returns"" uses nearly 400 special effects shots, about 35 minutes of screen time.

JOHN BERTON, Visual Effects Supervisor: Tidal waves, and oases growing and being destroyed. We have pygmy mummies that run out of the jungle. We have soldier mummies that fight hand-to-hand with our heroes through the streets of London. And we also have a lot of really huge, spectacular effects.

HUNTER: But its director says effects alone aren't enough.
STEPHEN SOMMERS, Dir.
, ""The Mummy Returns"" : No matter how big the movie, or how great the special effects are, or how impressive the technology, it's all about story and character.

HUNTER: But Sommers' magical mutations and edge-of-your-seat visuals don't hurt. Lauren Hunter, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.

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