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Ratatouille is a clever and stylish animated adventure where rats are humans and humans are rats and friendship and family loyalty rule over all, an underlying theme in most Disney Pixar works, that won the Oscar for Outstanding Animated Film of 2007.
This is the story of a rat named Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) with a highly sensitive nose for food and a passion for cooking stemming from his love of a deceased French TV chef named Gusteau (voiced by Brad Garrett). Gusteau's spirit leads Remy to Gusteau's restaurant, where Remy helps the establishment's new garbage man, Linguini (wonderfully voiced by Lou Romano) become the restaurant's new gourmet chef. Remy and Linguini's success is threatened by Gusteau's current head chef, Skinner (voiced by Ian Holm) and a nasty food critic named Anton Ego (flawlessly voiced by the late Peter O'Toole).
Disney Pixar really knocked it out of the park here, creating a world of rats with human sensibilities without forgetting the real place that rats have in human society. The danger that Remy encounters when he enters Gusteau's kitchen for the first time is real and palatable, almost making the viewer a little ashamed to be human. A genuine look at the human world from a rat's point of view that becomes even more engaging when it is established that Remy accepts his position in the world and refuses to completely discount humans and their attitudes toward rats.
Co-writers and directors Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava have constructed a viable world where humans and rats co-exist and have created a visually arresting atmosphere...I can't remember the last time I saw Paris so beautifully recreated in animated form...there is a shot of Remy sitting on a rooftop when he first arrives in Paris and is overlooking the landscape that is just breathtaking.
As always with Disney Pixar, the voice work is on the money with standout work from Oswalt, Romano, and O'Toole and the music is rich with Parisian atmosphere and is always scene-appropriate. A delicious animated adventure that works on all levels.
Ratatouille is a clever and stylish animated adventure where rats are humans and humans are rats and friendship and family loyalty rule over all, an underlying theme in most Disney Pixar works, that won the Oscar for Outstanding Animated Film of 2007.
This is the story of a rat named Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) with a highly sensitive nose for food and a passion for cooking stemming from his love of a deceased French TV chef named Gusteau (voiced by Brad Garrett). Gusteau's spirit leads Remy to Gusteau's restaurant, where Remy helps the establishment's new garbage man, Linguini (wonderfully voiced by Lou Romano) become the restaurant's new gourmet chef. Remy and Linguini's success is threatened by Gusteau's current head chef, Skinner (voiced by Ian Holm) and a nasty food critic named Anton Ego (flawlessly voiced by the late Peter O'Toole).
Disney Pixar really knocked it out of the park here, creating a world of rats with human sensibilities without forgetting the real place that rats have in human society. The danger that Remy encounters when he enters Gusteau's kitchen for the first time is real and palatable, almost making the viewer a little ashamed to be human. A genuine look at the human world from a rat's point of view that becomes even more engaging when it is established that Remy accepts his position in the world and refuses to completely discount humans and their attitudes toward rats.
Co-writers and directors Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava have constructed a viable world where humans and rats co-exist and have created a visually arresting atmosphere...I can't remember the last time I saw Paris so beautifully recreated in animated form...there is a shot of Remy sitting on a rooftop when he first arrives in Paris and is overlooking the landscape that is just breathtaking.
As always with Disney Pixar, the voice work is on the money with standout work from Oswalt, Romano, and O'Toole and the music is rich with Parisian atmosphere and is always scene-appropriate. A delicious animated adventure that works on all levels.