| Overall: | A- |
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| Violence: | B- |
| Sexual Content: | A |
| Language: | B+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A |
| Run Time: | 127 |
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| Video Release: | 12 Mar 2013 |
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Why Is Life of Pi Rated PG?
Violence: The film contains frequent moments of intense peril for both human and animal characters. Numerous characters are washed overboard or drowned during a ship’s sinking. Animals are attacked, killed and eaten. (Though some body parts are briefly shown, little blood or action is seen.) A child is bullied at school. A small boy tries to feed meat to a tiger. A goat is later tied up, attacked and killed as a lesson to the boy. A boy talks about killings and the murder of a man.
Sexual Content: A young teen couple falls in love. A boy urinates on part of the boat to establish his “territory”.
Language: Students repeatedly taunt another child using a crude urination term as a derogatory form of the boy’s name.
Alcohol / Drug Use: A zookeeper uses tranquilizers to lessen the stress of sea travel on animals.
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About the Reviewer: Kerry Bennett
Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.
