Movie reviews: Ratatouille

Lead Actors: A rat and a boy!

Directors: Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava

The movie is about a rat that wants to be a chef!

If you find the above sentence absurd, no use reading further :P

Remy is a unique rat...a rat with an appreciation for fine taste. Remy gets inspired by the famous chef Gusteau, having read his cookery books and aspires to be chef someday. But how can an animal whose very presence is scorned in the kitchen, rule it?

It so happens that Remy ends up all alone and bumps into the garbage boy in Gusteau’s restaurant (Linguini). How this chance meeting turns around the fate of Linguini as well as Remy forms the rest of the story.

I felt Remy was such a cute little rat, so tiny, so furry and that cute little pink nose! I wish Remy was my pet :D Linguini’s character as that of a timid and gullible young lad is well-etched.

The portrayal of the collaboration and friendship between Linguini and Remy is adorable and sometimes humorous too! I loved the scene where Linguini lets go off Remy from the bottle after taking a promise that they would work together and Remy runs away from Linguini and then feels bad for the boy and comes back.

The animators did a great job in animating France (where the story is based), you can feel and see the beauty of the city though it's an animation. The food looks so delicious in the movie; I bet you’ll feel like trying out those dishes! The climax of the movie features a dish named ‘Ratatouille’ (hence the name of the movie); it looked so very yummy that I ended up Googling for the recipe. I must say I was very disappointed by the way the dish looked in reality! Hats off to the animators!