Ratatouille - A treat for the eye
By alain on Friday 6 July, 2007
I know I don’t have enough words of praise in my vocabulary to describe this movie experience. With Ratatouille Pixar shows its superiority in the animation world. Both graphically as with respect to the content this movie was complete.
From the first minutes on, you will be drawn into the beautiful story of Rémy, a culinary rat who dreams of once becoming a chef. Unfortunately the life of a rodent isn’t meant for such a daring career choice. Until one day he meets Linguini, the kitchen aid in his favourite restaurant. Linguini can’t cook, but desperately tries to keep his job. Soon it becomes clear that a cooperation between those two, could perhaps make them the best chef of France. There is only the tiny detail of nosy colleagues and the head chef with an incredible disgust for rats.
Thanks to the fine balance between drama, humour, suspense and action I wasn’t bored for one moment. However the movie does follow the standard ‘format’, so nothing really surprising happens.
But above all, the movie is like candy for the eye. The first time you look at Paris together with Rémy it will definitely give you goosebumps. The attention for every small detail makes it very impressive. I’ve never seen rats this beautiful: the expression in body language and eyes, the ‘pink’-ness of the small noses, the tiny hairs on their ears and I can go on like this for a while…
The music of Michael Giacchino is also outstanding. The jazzy soundtrack creates the perfect French atmosphere without sounding old-fashioned. Le Festin from singer Camille gets you instantly daydreaming. You can listen to a fragment here.
In my opinion Ratatouille is, together with Finding Nemo, the best Pixar movie ever. I fell in love with Paris, with Rémy and his chubby little brother Emile, with the clumsy Linguini and oh, what I would give to taste just one little piece of that ratatouille! I’ll bring out the cookbooks…
