Completely spoiled by awful and over-used cgi

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2013)

Rented Mama from a local Redbox this weekend, grabbed a bowl of popcorn, turned out the lights, been looking forward to this since I missed it at the theaters.
It started off beautifully, quietly setting up a solid tragic back story that flowed into opening credits that had a fairytale, mythic quality to them. It had the fingerprint of a Guillermo Del Toro masterpiece like The Devil's Backbone, even though he only produced it.
It retained its strength through the whole first half, with kid actors that weren't annoying and Jessica Chastain putting in a pretty awesome performance as a conflicted caregiver being forced to grow up.
Aaaaand then... cgi.
And not even subtle cgi either... like, freaking "nothing was real on the whole screen" cgi. By the end I felt like I was watching a damn cartoon. Does this seriously not bother younger audiences today? I don't get it, here we had a potentially terrifying, potentially poignant film completely destroyed by cgi yet it gets decent reviews.
So yeah, if you don't mind abysmal (and we're talking, SyFy channel level abysmal) cgi plastered all over your final act, then you might enjoy Mama. As it stands, I give it 7 stars for the first half and deduct 3 of them for the second half. 4/10.