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2007
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RATATOUILLE
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STARRING:(VOICES
OF) PATTON OSWALT,LOU ROMANO,JANEANE GAROFALO,IAN HOLM,BRIA
DENNEHY,PETER SOHN,WILL ARNETT,JAMES REMAR,BRAD GARRETT,PETER
O'TOOLE
STORY
BY BRAD BIRD & JAN PINKAVA
SCREENPLAY
BY BRAD BIRD, JIM CAPOBIANCO, EMILY COOK,KATHY GREENBERG &
BOB PETERSON
PRODUCED
BY BRAD LEWIS
DIRECTED
BY BRAD BIRD & JAN PINKAVA
GENRE:COMEDY/FAMILY/ROMANCE
RATED:AUSTRALIA:PG/UK:U/USA:G
RUNNING
TIME:111 MIN
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Ratatouille
is another Pixar masterpiece from acclaimed animation filmmaker Brad
Bird, who also helmed The Incredibles and The
Iron Giant. This film tells the tale of Remy (voiced by Patton
Oswalt), a rat with a highly developed sense of taste and smell, which
naturally puts him at odds with his fellow rubbish rummaging kin.
Inspired by his hero, the late Chef Gusteau (Brad Garrett), Remy leads
a double life as a chef only to find himself putting his culinary
skills to the test when he is separated from his family and friends
and whisked away to Paris at the restaurant of his hero, no less.
There he forms a bond with doltish garbage boy Linguini (Lou Romano),
using him as a decoy to serve mouth watering meals to the people of
Paris, in the process becoming their most celebrated chef.
With Ratatouille, Bird provides and highly entertaining, funny,
and charming film which will appeal to both adults and children. It
excels in all critical fields of the animated feature, displaying
great character animation, sound effects, art direction and production
design, and voice performances, including a chilling Peter O'Toole
as the harsh food critic Anton Ego.
In the meantime, Bird also manages to successfully place sympathy
and hero status upon the most despised of animals (even naturalist
Sir David Attenborough detest the little buggers), whilst providing
a (slight) insight into the existence of the rat as they scramble
through sewers and pipes in search of food, with their heads constantly
on a swivel as humans try to kill them.
On top of this, Bird breaks the curse placed on films set in restaurants
(or those about chefs) which are usually drab affairs, bringing in
acclaimed chef Thomas Keller as a consultant on how to present delicious
recipes which transcend the animation format. In the process, Bird
has created a film which celebrates fine cuisine, and pays tribute
to Paris, the City of Romance, with a number of lush visuals of the
city's unmistakable sights. Overall, Ratatouille is a masterful
animation feature sure to bring 2 hours of joy to whoever watches
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