Yeah, that scene does look fake, but you are right, for some reason it is a lot more forgivable than old CG (Like the 1997 Jabba, always reminds me of Pete's Dragon and Song of the South). What is even more unforgivable is the lack of models used in film making. For a while there every car crash was painfully CG. I would always laugh when people would say, "Nah, that looks pretty good, you can barely even tell it is computer generated." The whole point is not to be able to tell at all and the fact that you can even tell at all that it is CG shows it is inferior to models.