Ratatouille
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 The wonderful little rat.... Trebien...Mon petite...This movie was truely wonderful. Lots of action and color. Try actually cooking the dish after watching the movie for a truely motivating palate sensory. The movie may include the recipe or you can internet quest it. Remi is devine.  A nice movie, Hi well to start we herd this was a good movie and went and saw it and were reasonably pleased with what we saw. Let me get one thing straight it's not as delicious as everybody claims it's only ok not great. But the good things about it is it isn't predictable, extreemely original, but it isn't very funny - except when the rats lock skinner in the freezer! That was hillarious! But any way this is nothing great but it's a decent movie you should get it gotta go hope this was helpful Brooke. A Gourmet Feast An indication of a good film lies in its ability to entertain and convince viewers on a multitude of levels. It's never easy to achieve that in films not to mention in animated ones. Brad Bird succeeds once again with Ratatouille after the great-beyond-measure The Incredibles. Despite an unconvincing main character which is a low-down rat and a talentless son of a cook, the animated film manages to fill each and every scene with action and fun, something that is bound to keep kids riveted. On a higher level, the storyline will appeal to adults in its subtle complexity. It speaks of nature vs nurture (are rats are forever condemned to being thieves), believing in oneself's aspirations (Anyone can cook even a street rat), imagine and create (Gusteau: I'm a figment of your imagination...If you're focused on what you've left behind, you will not be able to see what lies ahed. Now go up, and look around!). The dialogues are witty and of course, the animation is superb. At the end of Ratatouille, you would have experienced failure and then emerge hopeful. It's a must-see for 2007! (A)  Rat's in the kitchen (to the tune of Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin - first verse and chorus) A rat resided in a colony His keen sense of smell was an anomaly But there were cooking channels on French TV He learned to cook from a recipe And he was cooking before he knew it, and as he grew He said, "I'm not gonna be like you, Dad, "I'm just not gonna be like you." And the rat's in the kitchen with the cooking spoon Chef Gusteau by the light of the moon When you comin' home, son, I don't know when, But we'll get together then, You know we'll have a good time then Okay, that's how it all begins - Rémy is a rat with gourmet tastes who lives with his extended family of gourmands in the French countryside. His family utilizes him as a poison sniffer, but his great ambition is to be like his hero, Chef Gusteau. One day, in a sequence reminiscent of "Finding Nemo" and "Flushed Away", he finds himself at the restaurant founded by the now deceased Chef Gusteau, which is being run by the former sous-chef. Alfredo Linguini is the newly hired garbage boy, and as soon as he starts to work he manages to find himself in the soup. He hastily tries to cover his mistake, and is saved by the rat, who is in turn in need of being saved. The two soon form an alliance, and with a little bit of tugging and pulling, the boy starts cooking fabulous dishes while the rat buzzes like a bee in the bonnet. Sous-chef Skinner has big plans for the future, but when documents come to light that put a freeze on his ambition, he hatches a plot to have the restaurant shut down. At the same time, Anton Ego, the notoriously picky food critic, learns of the new and improved cuisine, and descends upon the little restaurant with the intention of decreasing its already diminished star rating. What follows are scenes not for the weak of stomach, and it may not be advisable to choose this for your romantic Saturday night "dinner and a movie", at least not if you're planning to have French cuisine (or Chinese take out for that matter). The animation and scenery are amazing as usual, but the movie has no catchy songs and somehow didn't keep my son's attention for as long as I had hoped. I enjoyed it for the most part, but I think this one is more suited to older children and adults.. Amanda Richards | |||||||||||||
