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  • Directors: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, Hindi
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 11 Feb 2008
  • Run Time: 107 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0010V4S2O
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 379 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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As good a film as Pixar has ever put out, Ratatouille is a frantic, innovative movie, boasting some of the finest quality animation ever put on the screen.

Ratatouille tells the story of wannabe-chef Remy The Rat, who becomes drawn into the mantra of legendary cook Gusteau, that anyone can cook. The deceased Gusteau’s ghostly image appears to Remy, and guides him to his restaurant, whose standards have been slipping since his death. Remy, through the manipulation of a lowly restaurant worker called Linguini, soon starts secretly cooking the food, and this unusual set up proves to be a trove of treasures that Pixar carefully picks through.

Ratatouille’s trick is to tie its cutting edge animation techniques to old-school essentials. At times harking back to the frenetic style you’d expect of Chuck Jones, it threads an original narrative through its story, which itself is packed with memorable characters (none more so than Peter O’Toole’s superbly-voiced restaurant critic). It perhaps runs a little too long, but it’s so well-written and so lavishly entertaining that it’s a churlish complaint to have.

For in an era of cynically-produced family movies, Ratatouille is really something special. With an appeal that spreads across generations, and a quality that puts it right up there with Pixar’s finest, it’s an outstanding piece of cinema, and one set to be enjoyed for many, many years. Unmissable. --Simon Brew



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Disney and Pixar combine for this animated tale, which follows the exploits of a French rat who dwells in an upmarket Parisien restaurant. Remy has great dreams of becoming a world-class chef, despite disapproval from his family, and the fact that he is the restaurant world's worst enemy - vermin itself! It seems his dreams will never become a reality until fate finds him living in Paris beneath one of the city's most elegant eateries.

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious!, 9 April 2008
By S Sage (Dorset, UK) - See all my reviews
My husband & I saw this at the Cinema (without our children) and loved it! The story of Remy, the rat with a genius for cooking is fantastic. It moves along at a cracking pace using all the creative, high energy, visual effects that you would expect from PIXAR but without losing emotional connection. SPOILER Alert: The morality story of how this lowliest, most vilified of creatures has the talent and finds the spirit to climactically topple the opinion of society's most revered judge, the aptly named food critic Anton Ego (superbly voiced by the one and only Peter O'Toole - who undergoes his own journey of transformation) is wonderfully uplifting. As others have mentioned the sight of a kitchen crawling with rats is so uncomfortable, that it also makes you question your own prejudices, and whether you really believe that `Anyone can cook'. There is a wonderful extra on the DVD where Remy and his brother explain the bad press rats have had and how The Plague was not their fault...!

Then of course there is the sensory experience in the film. A lovely depiction of the sights, sounds and smells of Paris, the wonderful way Remy tries to explain flavour and fusion of flavours to his brother depicted by colour and music and not least, the food preparation itself. You can almost taste the soup and of course the fantastic ratatouille that Remy prepares at the end.

By the way a tip if like us, you have children under 10. They loved the DVD with the English-descriptive setting turned on (initially by accident, but hey!). This narrative fills in many of the visual cues that they would otherwise miss.

Lifted - the failed alien abduction was hilarious and is also included on the DVD along with loads of other fascinating extras.

Entertaining, taste-bud and thought-provoking stuff, top marks.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another animated classic for the whole family., 21 Jun 2008
By Hugh Garske (Maidenhead, UK) - See all my reviews
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Brad Bird weaves his magic again with this charming peasant done good story. The fact that a story about a rat cooking michelin-rated food actually made it to production gives an idea of how good the story and animation had to be. And they're better.

The scene with the food critic tasting the dish is one of the most memorable scenes ever produced.
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely one of the best films of 2007, 28 Dec 2007
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I had some reservations about seeing this film. To be honest, knowing it was about a rat, and that the title was Ratatouille put me off - it seemed too obvious from that alone. I was quite wrong. This is an excellent Pixar movie. I loved the critic - I couldn't help but think the character was based on Will Self - and the whole concept of the story - its very easy to knock / criticise something, its far harder to actually get out there and make something I think can resonate across all age groups. As usual for Pixar, superb animation, and I think setting the film in Paris added to the movie, I thought the human characters were far more multi-dimensional than other animated movies I've seen over the past few years. An excellent animated movie, up there with the Incredibles for the genre in my opinion.
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