The story starts with the boy searching for God through various religions.

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2014)

The movie has to be awed for its visual brilliance and spectacular 3D effects. Some fast movement of tiger are not well done and looks like a cheap and sloppy animation. Otherwise watching tiger on screen is just a fantastic and spiritual experience and feeling the majestic beast, like, so close.
At start of the movie there are some good 3D treat with great depth involved for some immersive experience especially with lots of animals. Some birds flying and a monitor lizard swiveling its head left and right gives a amazing close-up experience and tempts you to touch them. There is a scene in Piscine Molitor swimming pool of France, where camera is facing the clear blue sky. But suddenly a swimmer swims across and then we realize it is shot from inside the swimming pool. That scene is amazing. When Pi Patel is thrown off the lifeboat and he is inside the ocean drowning a bit he sees the sinking ship. Watching the sinking ship at far end with Pi watching in middle of the screen makes you believe as if you are watching the sinking ship along with him. There are still more amazing scenes which cannot be explained like the arrival of school of flying fishes, the poisonous pool at night on the mysterious floating island, etc.
The story starts with the boy searching for God through various religions. He survives the shipwreck and drifts lonely into the sea, albeit sharing lifeboat along with a zebra, orangutan, hyena and the fearsome Bengal tiger. This takes audience to a marvelous journey of boy's survival on the sea with the company of a tiger. But ends with boy revealing disturbing events that (really supposed to have)occurred on the lifeboat with no animals involved.
I assume that the theme of believing in God in the movie, is implied by saying that the boy must have miraculously survived against all odds in the huge Pacific ocean for 200+ days.
On the whole watching this movie is a magical experience and do not miss till you have chance to watch it in 3D format in theaters and better chose the middle seat on last row for some most enjoyable 3D experience.