Ratatouille written and directed by Brad Bird (2007)
15 July 2007I really do think that Brad Bird is one of the best animation directors the US has ever seen, and the Iron Giant and The Incredibles are amazing, and Ratatouille is destined to be another classic. Not only a hysterical film that children will love, but a film that adults will enjoy, and foodies the world over will love. This film has a great story, great characters, and a realistic look into the food industry. This is an absolute must see. The animation is mindblowing, and the film absolutely rocks.
This is the story of a Remy a rat (Patton Oswalt) living in France with a pack of rats and his brother Emile (Peter Sohn) and father. He has a special nose and can smell ingredients and hates the garbage the rats eat, and wants to be a chef, but his father uses his talents to sniff out rat poison. The rats live in the attic of a house in the country, but Remy keeps sneaking into the house to get different spices, and he takes Emile with him, and they get caught and the old lady goes crazy, and starts shooting with her rifle and ruins the rats home, and they go to escape into the river, but Remy is seperated from his family, and winds up alone in Paris, and amazingly below the restaurant of his favorite chef Gusteau (Brad Garrett) who has recently died, but comes to Remy as a hallucination. Remy watches the kitchen and proves he knows all about it, and watches the new garbage boy ruin the soup, this is Linguini (Lou Romano). Remy falls into the Kitchen, and tries to escape, but can’t help himself and fixes the soup, which Linguini sees, and is told by the chef Skinner (Ian Holme) to get rid of the rat. The soup goes out to the customers, and instead of hating it they love it, and Remy is made a chef and put under the wing of the only female cook in the kitchen Coletter (Janeane Garofalo).
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t turns out Skinner is waiting out Gusteau’s will, which if no family is found, will go to the souse chef, which is Skinner. Meanwhile Linguini doesn’t kill the rat and then realizes that Remy can cook, and they make a team. Remy moves in with Linguini, and started to train to pull his hair so he can control Linguini from under his hat. Linguini quickly becomes a star cook with Remy’s help, and eventually he and Colette fall for each other.
Skinner meanwhile is obsessed with Remy’s rat, and tries to find him at all turns, but doesn’t succeed, and Remy manages to find the will and proof that Linguini is in fact Gusteau’s son, leaving him the restaurant and kicking Skinner out, but Remy gets cocky, and the evil food critic Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole) says he is coming to review and ruin the restaurant. Linguini fights with Remy, and Remy brings his family in, all the rats to steal food because they had fought. Linguini ends up telling the crew about Remy, and they all leave, leaving just Linguini who gives up, and they are caught by the health inspector that Skinner has called, but the kidnap him, and the rats help Remy cook, and they decide to cook Ratatouille for Anton, and instead of hating it, he loves it, and gives the place a great review, but ruins his career, because everyone finds out about the rat, but Ego then opens a new restaurant named Ratatouille, with Remy as the chef and a place for all the rats to eat.
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SUCH A FUN AND ENJOYABLE FILM! Really worth checking out, with amazing, amazing animation.
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