Purely Joyful Movie!

Absolutely Fantastic

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Summary: The other nominess for 2007's best animated feature film must not have been that great then. Despite a promising premise that had the makings of a classic story, the story itself isn't consistent with it's internal logic. This leads to some frustrating and inexplicable moments and contrivances and makes you wonder what exactly the movie's message is. Wonder if the character of Ego made critics afraid of being someone like that. The movie is still enjoyable with some good humour, and a love for food. _____________________________________________________________________Although I wasn't too interested in the first few minutes, that changed once the 'imaginary' Gusteau showed up. Coupled with the atmosphere and the premise of a 'ghost' helping a rat and his grandson help each other, I thought it had the promise of becoming quite a classic. However, the inconsistency of the plot with the internal logic of that world led to some really annoying scenes and contrivances. I did however really like the humour and the kitchen dynamics etc until Linguini becomes the owner. My four main issues are - everyone calmly accepting everything Linguini says about rats, Linguini & Colette suddenly being in love, Linguini freaking out over Remy 'stealing' food from a restaurant Linguini owns thanks only to Remy's work and finally, and ambiguous (at best) message. Despite this being a world where humans have no reason to believe rats can understand them or have any form of intelligence, it does make sense for Linguini to accept it, and it is clear that wasn't an easy feat. However people later on just calmly accept this, instead of questioning Linguini's sanity. Why would Skinner even think the rat was of any importance? A more logical conclusion for them would have been that Linguini is this eccentric chef genius who believes he needs a rat on his head to do his best. That scene where all of Linguini's staff walk out on him, I thought it was because they decided he was off his mind. But . . . they just didn't want to work under a rat? Colette only returns because she remembers 'Anyone can cook', after all. And later Ego also simply accepts this instead of throwing up, on realising his food was somehow made by rats.Where on earth did the romance come from? They didn't even spend much time together until then?I simply didn't get the scene where Linguini flips out when Remy 'steals' food from his restaurant. Linguini owed everything he had to Remy. The restaurant might as well be Remy's. I guess they were going for a Linguini getting over-confident and later regretting it arc. Not only is that overly cliché, it is very lazily executed. Finally, what exactly is the movie's message? 'Anyone can cook'? Linguini sure can't. That humans are being speciesist to rats, and we should instead live in harmony? I really liked the good parts of the movie, which makes these annoying flaws all the more frustrating, as it prevents me from fully enjoying the movie.

While maintaining the humour and comedy side of the movie, Ratatouille also shows how people (or in this case, rats) can be mistreated, but that one day, all will come to live in peace

I've watched this movie a million times and it never fails to make me happy!! It's such a cute movie I don't know how anyone could write a negative review about it. Makes me warm and fuzzy inside, want to travel to Paris and fall in love haha. I even tried making ratatouille after watching this movie (it didn't turn out that good).

Ratatouille is a great movie for the whole family! The great thing about this cinematic masterpiece is that you are guaranteed to be put in a great mood after watching. The worst part about this movie is when it end and you can't watch it anymore;(. The character development throughout the movie is stellar! Remi is just a little rat named Remi, but he has big aspirations! All that Remi wants to do is be a cook, but hes a rat XD. Remi does become a cook with a little help from the wise words of chef the spirit of Chef Gusteau, as well as using Chef Linguini. The only thing about this movie that I would change is that if they had a chef named Chef Jeff, because it sounds cool. In conclusion, everyone should see this masterpiece of a movie...show it to your man, woman, child, dog, grandma, local vendors, and shout it from the rooftops.