Information for Parents Common Sense Media says OK for kids 12+
Beautiful, emotional, intense story of faith and friendship.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that Life of Pi
is an intense, emotional story of survival and triumph against
the odds, with themes of faith, friendship, and perseverance.
Although it's rated PG, and there's virtually no strong
language, sexual content, or blood, this adaptation of Yann
Martel's bestselling novel has several very harrowing
(especially in 3-D) scenes of storms, shipwrecks, the
possibility of implied cannibalism, and zoo animals threatening
humans and confronting, killing, and eating each other -- all of
which are likely to be too much for younger children (as are the
themes of allegory and mysticism, which will require thoughtful
parental explanation). Pi is in near-constant peril throughout
the story (though it's told as a flashback, so you know he'll
survive) and, after losing his whole family, he must negotiate
sharing a very small space with a large,