Ratatoullie (2007)

 

Director: Brad Bird

Producer: Brad Lewis

Cast: Patton Oswalt (Remy) Lou Romano (Alfredo Linguini) Peter O’Toole (Anton Ego) Brad Garett (Auguste Gusteau).

The movie is Mind-blowing. Awesome. Spectacular. Let’s get to the review.

Remy is a bluish-grey rat who, unlike his clan, can actually taste and smell food. His brother, Emile, is extremely proud of this unusual feature, but Remy’s dad doesn’t value these abilities. That is, until one night. The rat clan are stealing food from the house of an old lady. Once Remy’s dad takes an apple core in his hands, Remy’s nerves spring into action and Remy quickly informs his dad that the apple core has rat poison. Finally proud of his son, Remy’s dad employs him as ‘Poison Checker’. Later, Remy goes to watch the TV show of Remy’s idol chef, Auguste Gusteau. But to his horror, Gusteau’s hotel was given a scathing review by one of the most renowned restaurant reviewers, Anton Ego, causing it to lose a star, and Gusteau dies of a broken heart, thereby losing another star. The rat clan is discovered by the old woman and the entire clan goes to the boats in the Paris sewers, except Remy.

Remy gets lost in the sewers and he is visited by Gusteau’s ghost. Gusteau tells Remy to go upwards the pipe and he finds himself in Gusteau’s hotel. Meanwhile, Alfredo Linguini is brought into the kitchen as garbage boy. Remy sees Linguini accidentally ruin a soup and the rat hurriedly puts ingredients into the pot making the soup better. Later Linguini is brought in as cook and asks Remy to direct him to make good food. Want to know more? Watch the movie!

I loved the movie. Really. It’s true. I could qualify this as the best Pixar movie till date, but there are a lot more. Still, it’s the best of the ones I’ve seen. I’m trying not to be Ego here, I’ll try to stick to the good side, but why to try? There’s only good stuff! Anyway, that feeling when you reach the end credits, it’s called sadness. The feeling of watching the movie, is called happiness. Put it all together, you’ve got life. Life has lots of ups and downs, but that’s what makes it good. What’s the point of eating something over and over and over again, until you get bored of it? Emile, the brother of our Remy, is so loveable. He completely approves of Remy’s intense interest in cooking, but doesn’t understand it himself. By the way, Pixar makes movies that are extremely amazingly great.  No flaws at all.

I wholeheartedly (yes) recommend this movie because:

1.       The animation, for a 2007 movie, is spectacular.

2.       The voice acting is super.

3.       The characters are seriously superb.

4.        Linguini is really silly.

5.       Overall, THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME!