Ratatouille

"Food always comes to those who love to cook."

Wow! Well done Pixar! I admit I own almost all the Pixar films (I don't have Toy Story and Monsters Inc.) and I enjoy watching them...but I was impressed with this film.

The story follows Remy (Oswalt), a rat who loves to cook. After being separated from his family Remy finds himself in the heart of Paris cooking, a restaurant called Gusteau named after the late-great chef (Garrett) who owned it and who is Remy's hero. After an accident in the kitchen Remy teams up with the newest employee of the restaurant, Linguini (Romano) who is hopeless in the kitchen. Together they create culinary masterpieces adored by critics and customers alike. But...life is not easy for the pair. They are taught by Colette (Garofolo) the tough female cook, watched by head chef Skinner (Holm), criticized by Remy's father Django (Dennehy) and brother Emile (Sohn)...and together they must impress the toughest food critic, Anton Ego (O'Toole) who's last review caused the owner to die and the restaurant to lose some appeal.

The story is fun. The accents are French. The scenery is divine. And you just want to eat a huge, gourmet meal afterwards (even if you've never eaten gourmet food before!). I especially enjoyed some of the commentary about critics...soo true, I think anyways. The humor is more adult in nature, but the little kids in the audience still enjoyed the film.

Dude, it's quotable: imdb was lacking in good quotes, but the dialogue was superb!

See it!: it's worth the $7 (or more) to see it...I saw it last night and I'm going again later this week!!

Ratatouille (2007) 110 minutes

Director: Brad Bird

Starring: Patton Oswalt as Remy

Ian Holm as Skinner

Lou Romano as Linguini

Brian Dennehy as Django

Peter Sohn as Emile

Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego

Brad Garrett as Gusteau
Janeane Garofalo as Colette

Will Arnett as Horst
Julius Callahan as Lalo/Francois
James Remar as Larousse
John Ratzenberger as Mustafa