Boring unrealistic animated film

Rating: 2/10 (9 January 2013)

This film was a first for me, the first film in my entire life that actually had me snoozing through it from boredom. The storyline is quite slow to take off as it meanders through his humdrum life, they get on a boat in a storm and out he goes on the the apparently in jest trying to incite the storm gods but apparently they were in a bad mood and slapped the boat around even more than before. Pi goes to escape with just one or two other people, where is everyone on board??? and ultimately after a wave or two hes on his own,.. oh except for the bizarre suicidal leap of a zebra over the rails into the descending boat. So contrived and obviously animated that it was ridiculous. Now getting away from the the story for a few moments (what a relief) my other complaining is that nothing in IMDb or in the cinema describes this film as animated or being based on computer generated images, which it so obviously is and very poor ones at that. Science fiction and other fantasy environments yes you would expect it and they are often fantastic but they are crap in this movie and not openly advertised for the public make an informed choice. Getting back to the story,... the kid spends almost all his time afloat on a lifebuoy which over time is somehow upgraded into a raft like structure. Ultimately they do get together in the boat after a another terrible storm but weakness from near starvation has the tiger incapacitated an no threat at all. Throw in a mysterious floating "carnivorous" island that eats lifeforms (yes supposedly eats people) and you will be close to bored witless. They escape from the island and eventually wash ashore where unlike Robinson and Crusoe PI and the tiger go their separate ways never to see each other again. OMG boring boring boring, silly animation that just doesn't look natural and leaves you wondering what you are actually looking at, is it computer generated or is it some kind of robotic device. Huge disappointment extremely boring.