Life of Pi is an adaption of the novel by the same name.

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2013)

The movie tells the story of a 16-year old boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, who survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a wounded zebra, an orangutan, a spotted hyena, and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The story in itself is very straightforward, but was still captivating enough to keep me interested to actually finish the movie. Personally, I didn't find the movie in itself that interesting and could have been told through a short film. The story is very tame, but certainly had the potential to actually be interesting. With that said the cinematography and soundtrack is what carries this entire movie. Every single scene in this movie is visually breath taking and makes me think of James Cameron's Avatar. Just like Avatar it demonstrates what happens when you have an unoriginal manuscript but an overambitious director, skilled cinematographer, and truck loads of CGI. If the movie had had more substance to it and wasn't just a display of modern technology it might have actually won the Academy Award for best motion picture.