Mrebo said:

Weird that you would feel a "huge" let down after seeing the creatures in the cantina.

The puppet characters in the cantina look equally fake. The let down for me was when the fake puppets went from background characters in a scene - to main characters in the story.

Jabba looked great.

I disagree. He looked like a giant puppet being used to portray a character that was so immobile that he would have been easily killed by his own people. The way Leia did.

But if you think CGI looks more real...I guess we just have different perceptions of reality.

As much as I appreciate you trying to speak for me, let me clarify. As I've said a few times before, I think CGI looks as good as, or better, than Matte paintings - when used as a background enhancement, the way matte paintings were in decades past.

However, CGI characters, objects, and entire scenes - Gollum, Jar Jar, droids, & nearly every scene I've viewed a screengrab of from the prequels - do not look more real.