The Laughingplace says there are rumours about the production of a Toy Story Musical. This show would be performed only on the Disney Cruise ships. I think it’s a strange evolution to see these kind of ‘low profile’ musicals (see Finding Nemo), also considering the fact that there are no songs in Pixar movies.

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…

We’ve located the music from the trailer of Wall-E and Bee Movie. It’s a song from the soundtrack of the movie Brazil: ‘Central Services/The Office’ by Michael Kamen. You can download the song here:

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Everyone that buys the Ratatouille videogame gets a closer look at the new Pixar movie Wall-E. Luckilly JV from JV Pixar News captured the clip so we can also enjoy it.

“Wall-E is a product of the buy n large coorporation, all rights reserved. Wall-E is not designed to function under water, in lunar gravity or in active lava flows. For a demonstration of Wall-e’s many other functions please visit any buynlarge showroom or voice command your hollowscreen to www.buynlarge.com.”

Sadly this site doesn’t work. The domaine is registered by the company Tucows. They will probably jump for joy when they ‘ll soon receive all this extra publicity!

Update: Apparently Tucows is the registration company that registered the domain for Disney. So Disney is the domainname holder for www.buynlarge.com

On youtube you can find a short clip of Emile from Ratatouille who is doing some athletics.

Emile astonishes the viewers with his magic tricks.

I didn’t notice it until now, but there are 3 movies of which 2 competing animation movies that use the same music in their trailer.  Bee Movie, Wall-E and Michael Moore’s Sicko all use the same song! I think it’s a variation of that famous Brazilian samba song which you can listen to here. If anybody knows the specifics of the song, you are very welcome to share the information.

• Throughout the complete trailer of Bee Movie
• At the end of Wall-E
• A bit after the beginning of Sicko

Strange?

Disney wants to gain a better position in India. To conquer Bollywood they will cooperate with the Indian movie studio Yash Rai Films. The two companies plan to release one movie a year. Roadside Romeo is the first result of this cooperation. This CG animation movie features a rich dog that is left behind in the restless streets of Mumbai. The movie will be released in three languages: Hindi, Tamil and Telugo. The voice acting will be done by some of the legends of Bollywood: Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

Great news! The first teaser of Wall-E is out. The clip starts with a flashback to all the different projects of Pixar and in the end you can see a little bit of Wall-E and hear his voice!

The first image has been published from the Pixar movie ‘Up’, ready for release on June 12th 2009. Nice, isn’t it…

American Dog, the movie about a tv-show superdog, has recently been renamed to the main character: Bolt. The US releasedate has also been moved from Independence Day, 4th Of July, to November 26th 2008. I guess the American emphasis isn’t that big any more in this movie.