I went into this film looking forward to it, but expecting that I might be a little disappointed. In truth, I think my only disappointment was that I saw it in 2D. I'm not a big fan of the current 3D film love-in, but this film was so visually impressive that I would have loved to have seen it in 3D. It was a real feast for the eyes.

As a book adaptation, I have to agree with the others who felt it was well done. It was. The novel had been one of those books sat on my 'to read' list for the best part of a decade and I only read it in about December 2011, and it quickly became one of my favourite books. One of the bits I really liked about the novel was the ending, and I worried with how the film might deal with it and how it makes you question what you've witnessed up until that point, but I thought the film did that really well. I didn't feel the film pushed you in a particular direction as which story to believe - it ended with the quote that suggests that the first version was true, in spite of the fact that Pi gives the alternative story quite quickly. To be honest, I think almost everybody I know who read the book wanted the first story to be true (and as a result, believed that), and I think that's how many who watched the film would appraise it.