Into the wild was better

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2012)

"A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery" - IMDb short synopsis
Apart from glowing fish and an island of pacifist Meerkats what exactly made this movie epic? And what did he discover other than poking a tiger with a stick and yelling at it makes it not want to eat you.
I was hoping for a lot out of this film but I didn't really see anything special about it. This film I felt lacked stability. It wasn't one type of movie or any. And I didn't feel emotionally attached to anything.
I read somewhere that the alternate story he told in the end to the Japanese reporters was what really happened, but the way in which this was introduced was far too random.
I guess though it has helped me make sense of a couple of things but I still think this was bland.
One thing that bugged me right from the beginning, and I've never read the book so I'm not sure how to criticize the way the film has been written, I don't think Pi narrating his story of survival really worked.
Because I knew he would be alright in the end I didn't feel very much towards what he was going through. I felt it would've been more powerful if you saw his story progress from childhood through to his late teens without any narration.
Then there was his childhood, this drawn out sequence of his early life which didn't seem to have a massive effect on the main plot point. Once he is out at sea it's like nothing that came before really mattered.
It wasn't really the eyecandy i predicted either. Things moved too fast for you to get a good look and there was just lots of stuff that glowed in the dark.
I'm too tired to go on. I hope this has been coherent