it all depends on the babys age because he appears older it can all be real if he is in fact a small or midgit 5 yr old, but nice to see all the same.

Both. On some of the parts where you see incredible flexibility in his tummy, there is some darkening and the images are just a bit fuzzier. Think it was doctored a tad. Funny, regardless!

So Fake!

As a producer, I can tell you that if it's a fake, it cost a fortune. The reason you don't see a lot of handheld shots with effects is that there's no automated process to recreate the camera movements for your other layers unless you use a motion control (this is handheld). So if it's real, in addition to spectacular animation or motion capture, it had to be keyed and composited frame by frame by frame. AND the animation camera would have had to be hand animated to match the camera movement on the background. If it's a fake, it cost millions; seeing no corporation taking credit for it leads me to believe it's real.

PS - I don't know anything about real dancing babies so I'll leave all the parents to comment on the performance.

Don't know - but the diapers hold up well..................

He's real. I've been in Brazil so many times and always see this babies and kids dancing around, they learn their music and dances since the crib... so he's real.

If parents would spend as much time reading to and with their children as they do other seemingly rediculous ventures as this, we would have a much smarter society.

those one who say 'its brazil, its samba, he sees it in the beach blablabla'
? have you ever been to Brazil?

shut up, its not even samba! its axé!
AND ITS NOT OUR "CULTURE" TO DANCE!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE JUST LIKE IT! dang! and "female relatives" do NOT shake their 'booties' around!!! you are so dumb!

This is not fake, and this is not samba. But it's Brazilian music, it's called Axé.