Made me believe in good storytelling... and good CGI

Rating: 8/10 (28 November 2014)

Yup, this was super good, visually stunning from beginning to end, just an absolute feast for your eyes and even managed to make to make me cry during THAT scene on the beach with the tiger.
A ton of CGI in this but wow do those animals ever look real. The story itself is a bit exhausting, following a zookeepers son who is shipwrecked and spends over 200 days aboard a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Almost the entire movie takes place aboard the lifeboat and his epic journey of adventure is gruelling but also magical.
Life Of Pi was an absolute favourite book of mine and I'd wondered how Ang Lee was going to transform Yann Martel's magnificent tale to the big screen, well, he succeeded beyond my expectations, even the (open to interpretation) ending has been handled well.
It begins with an adult Pi dictating his life story to an author searching for material for his new book. The author has been told that Pi's story will make you believe in god. I don't know about that but it did make me believe in CGI and good storytelling. 11/9/14