Life of Pi

I once read that you judge whether or not you'll like a movie within the first three minutes of watching. But even after the first 30 seconds of Life of Pi, with it's simple yet creative opening credits, I was spellbound. Andrew and I stopped to see it in 3D in Davis over the weekend.

Based on the novel by Yann Martel (which I now want to read), the story follows a young boy named Pi and a tiger named Richard Parker. And that’s all I’m going to say.

Other than the fact that it’s so visually scintillating, it kept me intrigued for the entire 126 minutes. This time, paying the few bucks more for a 3D experience was worth it.  Ann Hornaday from The Washington Post put it well when she said, “In a year when 3-D has added little or nothing to the films it nominally enhanced…'Life of Pi' arrives just in time to breathe life and possibility into an otherwise moribund marketing gimmick.”

And get this – a make-shift movie theater (above) was created inside an indoor swimming pool in Paris called the Piscine Pailleron, which was featured in the film. People watched from lifeboats swaying in the water. Leave it to the French!