Much ado about not much

Rating: 4/10 (2 March 2013)

Yes, the film had nice pacing, nice acting, exciting moments, great photography and special effects, but, in the end, so what. Yawn.
Pi starts off with some unexplained quest to believe in something and proves that if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. His father was right as the kid, again inexplicably, studies comic books of Hindu's 30 million gods, then drinks the holy water (literally on a dare) and comes to Jesus, and then walks by a mosque and gets into Allah.
After the family decides to take a ship to Canada and sell the zoo animals they own on their zoo, for some unexplained reason the ship sinks in a storm -- and it wasn't a perfect storm. And... it goes down at the Marianna's Trench which is the deepest part of the ocean, yet... the ship only sinks about 100 feet.
The rest of the movie is watching him endure 40 odd days in crossing the Pacific Ocean while trying to out fox a tiger and steer clear of sharks. In the end he makes up another story for the insurance company and we really have no idea which story is real and have no idea why we just sat through this story.