A delicious yet beautiful movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2008)

Ratatouille raise the animation bar by giving us the wonderful experience with the movie itself. In my opinion, the most important thing in this movie is not how Remy - the main rat - trying to achieve his goal by making the most delicious food on Paris, but how we as a human being appreciate an art and its process to make it an art. At this movie, Brad Bird brilliantly choose food as the art itself.
Why food? Simply because food is enjoyable on every aspect. The food in this movie was a fine dining. A kind of food who not only have to be delicious, but also beautiful. And how on earth a sewer rat will make a food beautiful and also delicious?
Well, since its a Pixar movie, nothing seems impossible.
Ratatouille succeed for making the viewer understand the process of the art itself. It was so moving to watch Remy and his desire to cook. The screenplay and the script was flawless, actually when you realize that this is 'only' an animated movie. The line when Skinner the Chef was so angry with Linguini when he messed up with the soup was so simple, yet it tells the audience about how crucial it is too playing with ingredients, especially when it was a signature soup.
The character had a very rich personality, and the story was so bold. I'm sure that Ratatouille still will be a great movie even if it conceived in a simple 2-D animation like it's rival at Academy Awards, Persepolis.
Anton Ego character was stunning. With the simplest choice of words and gesture, he conceived us that he is a very dangerous and critical critics. It was like seeing your old killer- looking professor at college when you want to hand him your term-paper.
The technical aspects were also flawless. But what do you expect? Of course it was flawless! Its Pixar movie for God sake! No wonder that Ratatouille was the best reviewed film of 2007. I realized that some people found that Ratatouille was boring, weird, etc. Well, I guess you have to use some of your so-called-brain in your head when you watch this movie. This is not a stupid animation movie that we see a lot these past years. This is not Barnyard, Madagascar, Shark Tale or Shrek The Third. This is kind of movie that will make you think. If that to much for you to do, than just skip it.
I enjoy Ratatouille as much as I enjoy the good food. And I will watch it over and over again, while I wait for another masterpiece from Pixar, hungry for moreÂ…
9.5/10