An engaging chef Gusteau (Brad Garrett) appears to Remy frequently as “a figment of your imagination” to offer advice and support to Remy. The symbiotic friendship between Remy and Linguini carries genuine sympathy and caring. The parallel rat world is rendered in equally imaginative details so that Remy becomes an outsider in his own community by his insistence that food is art. But trumping even the photorealism of this Parisian fantasia is the utter charm of it all. The movement of all the characters from the rats, right down to their hairs and tail, to the humans flying this way and that has an authentic precision that adds to the comic action immeasurably.
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Everything is so realistic in its textures, colors and smells - yes, you’ll swear you can smell the food - that the next time you switch on the Food Channel will bring disappointment: It doesn’t look like Gusteau’s! In Bird’s kitchen, sauces steam and bubble over brilliant flames, red wine shimmers in crystal glasses, vegetables slice, grate and chop in a frenzy of tiny flying objects, and the camera and cooks are in constant motion in a choreographed ballet with swift, tuxedoed waiters.
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Soon, Linguini/Remy have the old magic back in Gusteau’s kitchen, light a romantic fire underneath its sole female cook, Colette (Janeane Garofalo), has Skinner doing a slow burn and attracted the unwanted attention of the town’s haughtiest critic, Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole at his most imperial and majestic self).Ĭartoon food certainly has come a long way from the spaghetti-by-candlelight scene in Walt Disney’s Lady and the Tramp.
#Ratatouille movie trial
Through trial and much error (meaning much slapstick), Remy learns that by perching on the top of Linguini’s head under his chef’s hat and pulling tuffs of thick hair to manipulate limbs, he can pilot Linguini through his food-prep station. When Linguini comes to the startling realization that a rat actually created the soup, he knows his goose, you should excuse the expression, is cooked.īut wait! Linguini and Remy develop a means to communicate. But Skinner challenges him to repeat his “accidental” soup recipe. When Linguini receives credit for Remy’s artistry, Skinner is forced to hire him as a cook. His sous chef, Skinner (Ian Holm), drawn to look like an evil and miniaturized Cantinflas, is content to coast on the restaurant’s name while crassly expanding into frozen food. It seems old Gusteau has passed on to that kitchen in the sky. When Remy, momentarily stranded in Gusteau’s, sees the mess Linguini has made of a soup when no one was watching, he quickly hurls ingredients in from all over the kitchen, turning the soup into the best thing that kitchen has produced in ages. In a way, his is the more desperate case because he loves the world of food but can’t cook worth a lick.
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The second hard case is Linguini (Lou Romano), a garbage boy at Gusteau’s eponymous restaurant. Indeed, his hero is Paris’ culinary superstar Auguste Gusteau, whose motto - and best-selling book - is Anybody Can Cook.
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Mais non, he prefers haute cuisine delicacies out of human kitchens. The first is Remy (voiced by comic Patton Oswalt), an uncommon French rat who refuses to nibble on garbage. But Ratatouille gives us two seemingly hapless protagonists battling impossible odds. Heroes with impossible dreams are the stuff movies are made of.