BON APPETITE: RATATOUILLE IS WORTH SAVOURING
RATATOUILLE |
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| In Theatres: | June 29, 2007 |
| On DVD: | TBA |
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| Reviewed by: | Louis B. |
| Official website: | disney.go.com/../ratatouille |
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In his newest cartoon extravaganza Ratatouille, Brad Bird who gave us The Incredibles, has created two of the most unlikely screen heroes.
Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) is a country rat who longs for big city cuisine.
Garbage is just not his bill of fare.
His taste buds have driven Remy to become a master chef who can sniff just the right ingredients for a mouth-watering concoction.
Linguini (Lou Romano) is a bumbling janitor who dreams of being a chef.
Sadly Linguini lacks both skill and creativity.
He really is better suited to taking out the kitchen garbage than creating a meal.
Fate and some masterful animation bring Remy and Linguine together and they are quite a dynamic duo in the kitchens of Cafe Gusteau.
Ratatouille makes such great strides in advancing computer animation you almost forget you’re watching cartoon characters.
Bird seems to have looked to French mime and American silent movies as inspiration for the slapstick sequences in his film.
These plus the witty characters make Ratatouille a delight for adults and teens.
The pure whimsical nonsense and those lovable rats will endear Ratatouille to children.
I prefer Ratatouille to The Incredibles and Cars but, for me, it’s not nearly as charming as Finding Nemo, Toy Story or Monsters Inc.
Still, it proves that Pixar is at the forefront of computer animation.
The voices in Ratatouille are a bit of a disappointment.
Ian Holme’s villainour chef Skinner is dull and I had problems understanding Janeane Garofalo’s chef Colette.
Peter O’Toole is wickedly mean-spirited as the food critic Anton Ego.
Ratatouille is better than either Shrek 3 or Surf’s Up but it’s no The Lion King, Aladdin or The Little Mermaid.
