Overuse of CGI ruins movie

Rating: 7/10 (27 January 2013)

This was a Hollywood movie, not a realistic attempt at portraying the book. All the multi-religious stuff was skipped over far too quickly because Hollywood wanted to hurry up and spend their millions on the shipwreck scene and then spend tens of millions showing us fake zebras, fake tigers, fake monkeys and fish and whales and all the rest of it. My feeling at the end was that it was all so sterile - what should have been SUCH a human story. It's still better than 90% of what's out there, but I think this will be seen in years to come as a "missed opportunity" which is a shame.
This film made twenty years ago without using CGI as a crutch would have been a wonderful piece of film making. Shame.