//This is just a untrue story of a man lost at sea. What's the big fuss about it? There are thousands of REAL LIFE stories that will tear your heart out, without the need of CGI and dolphins and meerkats.
//Amidst all these oohs and aahs critics are making about this Oscar award winner-to-be, I found the film hardly making sense - ok, if anything, I can at least comment on the CGI:
-The tiger looks too thin or fat at times, and too unproportionate at others. The physics was rubbish, the boat doesn't overturn when a 500 pound tiger pounces on it?
- There is NO way the water is so swimming pool-like in the middle of the ocean
//Amidst all these oohs and aahs critics are making about this Oscar award winner-to-be, I found the film hardly making sense - ok, if anything, I can at least comment on the CGI:
-The tiger looks too thin or fat at times, and too unproportionate at others. The physics was rubbish, the boat doesn't overturn when a 500 pound tiger pounces on it?
- There is NO way the water is so swimming pool-like in the middle of the ocean
- There is No way a island could have so many meerkats - imagine all the defecation!
This is just a nice movie, but not worthy of much.
Movie review: Life of Pi
Sat, Dec 01, 2012
The New Paper
This is a masterpiece. [because everyone says so]
The premise itself - a man and a tiger trapped on a boat - sounds like the stuff of a B-grade movie. [it is, except some people paid a lot and want their capital back]
In fact, just a couple of years back, Step Up 2: The Streets hottie Briana Evigan starred in Burning Bright, the story of a girl stuck in a house with a Bengal tiger.
Oddly enough there was no Oscar buzz.
Perhaps that had something [everything] to do with the fact that it was directed by the unknown Carlos Brooks rather than the mighty Lee Ang.
There are not many films in the whole history of cinema [are we exaggerating a bit dear?] that are as majestic [majestic cinema? got a better word for that?] as Life Of Pi, which unfolds like a strange and beautiful dream [ok, so you're starting to get a bit too excited].
Tigers are innately splendid creatures, and Lee Ang has the taste and patience to give us extended shots of the creature simply doing its thing, whether that be snarling and swiping at our hero or simply staring forlornly into the endless expanse of the Pacific. [there's a Pi-fanboi talking]
The beast is largely CGI, but it is utterly convincing both as a wild animal and as something more than that. [I thought it was just a cartoonish looking tiger]
With its black and orange stripes, it looks so weird and yet so fetching surrounded by the blue and grey of the water. [water looked like too much algae down there]
It's just so visually arresting. [perhaps you've got not very high standards]
The young actor (Sharma) and the older actor (Khan) who play Pi are as charismatic as the tiger, and both brought tears to my eyes at one point or another. [you do tear too easily]
I just can't express how thrilled I am at what Lee Ang has done here. This feels like a movie that has existed for all time [no, it was just filmed. what makes you think it existed all time?]
The Consensus: Lee Ang's CGI-heavy adaptation brings the charming Life Of Pi tale to gorgeous new heights, while still retaining the story's heart and soul. [what heart and soul? it a untrue story, a yarn, of a man lost in sea, that's all. There are heaps of REAL stories out there, that will really tear your heart]
-Jason Johnson
Life Of Pi is a wonder, in a number of ways. [more of the same from this "critic"]
Firstly, it's the most beautiful CGI you'll ever see - Richard Parker, the tiger and semi-star of the show, is a living, breathing, growling, clawed beast that takes your breath away.
The night-time shots of shipwrecked Pi floating peacefully on that big ocean are spectacular, as are the gorgeous underwater shots of ocean animals.
I want Lee Ang to do all animal movies from now on.
Speaking of Lee Ang, the very idea that this master of old-timey period flicks (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Sense and Sensibility) was actually responsible for Life Of Pi is mindblowing.
Folks have called Life Of Pi the next Avatar, but Lee Ang brings a lot more humanity to this CGI-heavy flick, whereas James Cameron seemed fixated on making Avatar the best. CGI. Movie. Ever.
And it's wonderful, too, that the actors get to shine amid all the visual spectacle.
Sharma is a joy to watch - charming, lovable, emotive.
Khan, who is the movie's storyteller, is at his best. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets an Oscar nod for this performance, despite the lack of action.
One of the year's best films.
The Consensus: Lee Ang's CGI-heavy adaptation brings the charming Life Of Pi tale to gorgeous new heights, while still retaining the story's heart and soul.
-Juliana Rasul
