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Jun 27, 2024 · In a video with Insider, Liebrandt examined Ratatouille through the lens of what it teaches about food, and why it is a valuable movie for children to watch. The master chef compared the themes and accessibility of Ratatouille to Harry Potter and highlighted the real-life lessons about food that can be gleaned, including a specific scene where restaurant critic Anton Ego eats ratatouille.
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last updated 10 March 2021
Pixar’s chef-d’œuvre
Few film studios can boast the commercial and cultural pedigree of Pixar.
Whether through toys, bugs, fish, monsters or even actual human emotions, Disney’s flagship animation house has rarely misfired in its near 30-year quest to capture the hearts and minds of adults and children alike.
That means the movie finds other ways of maintaining the attention of its audience. First off, Ratatouille is gorgeous. Really, it’s something of a visual marvel. Despite taking place almost entirely in the brass belly of a Paris restaurant, the Pixar animators did a fantastic job of capturing the romance of the French capital and, in particular, its culinary heart – from the warm yellow hues of bread and cheese to the rich red tones of grapes, tomatoes and wine. If Ratatouille’s goal is to make you appreciate the beauty of food, it achieves this and then some. Who knew carrots could look so delicious?
The score, too, is exceptional. Michael Giacchino’s fast-paced, French-inspired music expertly complements the urgency of the kitchen among a typically-relaxed Paris, and serves to heighten the sense of danger when proceedings do occasionally leave the doors of Gusteau’s. In one sequence, the crooked Chef Skinner (voiced by the late Ian Holm) chases Remy through crowded streets and into the River Seine in what is a perfect example of Ratatouille’s seamless marrying of visuals, soundtrack and storytelling. It’s almost James Bond-like in its construction, and goes to prove that the movie isn’t only concerned with what goes on inside the kitchen.
Ratatouille is also very funny, playing on humor that is more slapstick in tone than any Pixar entry before it. Linguine stumbles around with a goofy elasticity that adds to some of the movie’s most laugh-out-loud moments. This old school approach to joke-making works to create genuinely hilarious scenes to be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of age, much in the same way its aforementioned themes don’t only aim for the grown-ups.
All these elements combine to form a family animation that truly is for all the family. Everything is simple-but-effective here – the story, the art style, the comedy – and is executed in such a way as to meet or exceed the best the studio has to offer elsewhere. Despite being about the plight of an ambitious rat, Ratatouille is a refreshingly human adventure, and a reminder that Pixar doesn’t always need to make us reach for the tissues in its pursuit of an animated masterpiece.
Hell, it’s a movie about a rat that makes ratatouille – isn’t that enough to make it the best?
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Nov 6, 2017 · And after watching ‘Ratatouille’, that had changed. I watched the movie again to make sure it wasn’t something I felt in the heat of the moment. And even 4 days from then, I stand by it. ‘Ratatouille’ is the story of a rat that has a hidden talent that may not change the entire world but it can rock somebody’s world to the core.
Jun 28, 2017 · Moviefone. Pixar's " Ratatouille," which came out 10 years ago (June 29, 2007), is undeniably a classic. Even people who aren't enamored with Pixar's patented brand of heartfelt, high concept ...
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