Hey guys!
I watched Life of Pi a week ago. Well... That happened.
I'm still not interely sure what I thought of the movie, and that's a bit odd for me because I usually know if I liked a movie or not. Now I don't!
Life of Pi certainly was a beautiful movie. The shots were Amazing most of the time, the colours really bright and absolutely stunning and the actors convincing.
I personally wasn't that fond of the zebra-, monkey- and goat-eating-scenes, but that's just because I'm not really fond of seeing animals get killed.

Story
Pi lives in India with his family. His parents run a zoo (I personally liked his mom, and his dad until he killed a goat) and so Pi grows up there. At a certain point they decide to go abroad and get on with their zoo there. They take their animals and travel by boat. At night it starts storming and Pi "encourages" the storm to get harder an so the ship sinks. Really sad.
Pi is left alone on a boat with a monkey, a zebra, a hyaena and a tiger. The hyaena eats the zebra, and kills the monkey in a fight. Then the tiger, called Richard Parker, kills the hyaena, if I remember all of this right;). Then Pi is left alone at sea with a tiger, a boat, biscuits and his selfmade raft attached to the boat to avoid Richard Parker. This is how he spends the rest of his time in the movie;

And then the cliffhanger; Will he ever see land again?

What I thought of the Movie-spoiler alert!-
I thought the movie was stunning in it's colours and shots, as said before, and you could see that they worked on it a very long time. I give the actor who played Pi credits for performing the part so well, because if Pi was played by a crap actor, the movie wouldn't have been so good. He performed like he was Pi.
The animals were mostly Computer Generated and I thought you could see that sometimes. When the monkey looks really sad, for instance. But at other times, the animals seemed completely real.
It wasn't really a feel-good-movie in my opinion.
Well, the movie was quite good and looked stunning, but the story line just didn't really appeal to me.

Watch it again?
This is what concerns me, I'm not really sure if I will. Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh, it is a pretty good movie after all:)
Recommend it?
If you want a  feel-good-happy-movie it's best if you chose something else. If you just want an interesting movie, but a bit sad at times, look no further.
Actors, Director, Music
Pi - Suraj Sharma (Million Dollar Arm-post production-)
Director - Ang Lee; (Hulk, Sense and Sensibility)
Music - Mychael Danna; (Little Miss Sunshine, Chloe)
Production Design; David Gropman; (Chocolat, Hairspray)
Adult Pi - Irrfan Kahn; (The Amazing Spiderman, Slumdog Millionare)

So, Finally, I would give Life of Pi these marks; 7.5 - 8.0

Have a good life!!

Xoxo Eefje