Wildly over-rated religious claptrap

Rating: 7/10 (15 January 2013)

This film is a must-watch only for its 3D imagery which is quite extraordinary. If you are a religious type you may enjoy it for more than that because the film-makers' target audience is the emotional believers. If you are a rational atheist kind there is little for you to connect except perhaps briefly in the beginning, when Pi gets to learn about the nature of the beast, and towards the end, when he has to recount the story to the wrecked ship's insurers. Indeed, I could not help but conclude that we just took a journey through the delusional mind of a hungry and thirsty castaway. Did someone just say that the origins of all gods, spirits and other affiliated ethereal 'entities' is in the hallucinating minds of our wandering hungry and thirsty ancestors? I believe Ang Lee just did, though I can't be sure whether this is one of the interpretations that he deliberately set out to convey. 7/10.