Ratatouille

Ratatouille tells the most unlikely story of Remy, a rat who disdains garbage and wants nothing more than to cook and eat gourmet food. Ratatouille progresses at a good pace and it held my attention all the way! The animation is excellent and the voiceovers are very nicely done.

When the action begins, we meet Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat who must run for safety along with the other rats when they are discovered by the old woman whose attic they inhabit; and this is after poor Remy has already been "relegated" to food inspector to make sure that no food is poisoned. Remy's father only complains that his son Remy is way too picky about food; and Remy's brother Emile (voiced by Peter Sohn) "tolerates" Remy even though he doesn't understand Remy's desire for gourmet food.

After a harrowing, close escape from the woman whose house they inhabited, Remy finds himself alone in the sewers of Paris. He has lost his way and he doesn't know where his fellow rats and his family are. However, he soon discovers that he is underneath the kitchen of his idol chef, Chef Gusteau (voiced by Brad Garrett) who has written a book entitled "Anyone Can Cook." Eventually Remy wanders into the kitchen and risks his life to see what goes on there, although he is saddened when he earlier discovers that Chef Gusteau is now deceased.

Things become even wilder! Remy saves the day for a young, newly hired garbage boy named Linguini (voiced by Lou Romano); Linguini cooks a terrible soup and Remy secretly adds a few things to make the soup even more then perfect. Pretty soon Remy and Linguini actually form a partnership with Remy hiding under Linguini's chef cap and tugging on Linguini's hair (either left or right with his rat paws) to tell Linguini what to put in the soup to make it wonderful. Linguini's subsequent success is extremely disturbing to the crude, bullying chef in charge Chef Skinner (voiced by Ian Holm). Chef Skinner tries to get Linguini to admit that a rat is behind his success; but Linguini never admits anything even when Skinner gets him drunk.

Of course, from here the plot can go anywhere. Will Skinner be able to hide the secret that the restaurant belongs to Chef Gusteau's son--Linguini? What if Linguini and Colette (voiced by Janeane Garofalo), another cook in the kitchen, begin a romance--will this complicate things or help things along? What becomes of Remy--will he stay in the kitchen working with Linguini? Will Remy ever find his family? And what happens when the nasty restaurant critic Anton Ego (voiced by Peter O'Toole) wants to destroy Chef Gusteau's restaurant's reputation? No plot spoilers here, folks--just watch the movie and find out!

The DVD has a plethora of extras. You get an interview with the writer and producer; and there are three deleted scenes. There's also a short animated film entitled Lifted.

Ratatouille is a strong film from Disney and Pixar, although I do agree with other reviewers that the film could have been tightened up a bit to run a few minutes shorter. This is an excellent family movie but there is, of course, the possibility that some won't be enchanted by the images of rats running en masse through restaurant kitchens. However, all of this didn't bother me too much, so I heartily recommend this movie.

This movie was cute. Remi, a rat with a taste for something more than garbage and left-overs, follows the advice of a popular chef he sees on television who believes that anyone can be a great cook. With a human sidekick, Remi finds himself finding a way to be the head chef at a restaurant, and it's only a matter of time before his past, the human world, and what might just be some unbeatable limitations come to the front.

I found it interesting that both the little people and myself had a moment of "ew!" in one scene where many rats are in the kitchen, but that this same "ew!" didn't hold when it was just Remi.

The story is cute, the characters are likable, and the overall message - little people can do great things - is sweet. That there is some realistic fallout doesn't hurt, and makes for a funny reveal near the end.

Ratatouille is a very cute computer animated movie that has amazing graphics. It is about a rat, named Rémy, who has the talent of cooking. Rémy secretly helps a terrible chef named Skinner, to cook delicious food by controlling his actions by pulling Skinner's hair.

I highly recommend Ratatouille for people of all ages because it is hilarious and everyone will enjoy it.

Recently, my hubby and I decided to watch some cute uplifting movies, and this was one of them. Ratatouille is an adorable little movie featured around Remy, a little rat who lives to cook, but whose life isn't really working out that way.

When he teams up with an inept young man who gets a job at a formerly 5-star restaurant (now having fallen to 3 stars upon a bad review and the death of the head chef), it's the perfect recipe for this hilarious little duet to whip up a serving of success, preferably in time to dazzle the restaurant critic that brought the restaurant so low.

With witty little snips of dialog, and some fantastically funny scenes, this movie is sure to be a hit with your young people, and was still fun to watch as an adult.

One of the few movies that actually teach kids a moral! Plus, effects that add "flavor" to the movie were used extremely well. Definitely worth watching a few more times. Simply magnificent! I would recommend it to people who are looking for a movie with purposeful meaning. =D

A movie about a rat that wants to become a chef, a cook that can't cook, and how they all work together. I wasn't expecting to like this film (pixar movies are always hit or miss with me) but I picked it up on a whim and absolutely loved it...

A gourmet blend of solid storytelling, great voice acting, and some of the best computer animated visuals I've ever seen, which is as much a culinary delight for the eyes as the entrees made by Remy the rat are for the taste buds of Paris gourmands. Another hit from Brad Bird and his crew--this is why Pixar is top of the heap in animation these days, and why Dreamworks is just...dreaming.