It's perfect!

Rating: 10/10 (18 June 2016)

Ratatouille is an exceptional product, from production to mythic payload. The voice acting is fantastic, and the animation work is painstaking and engaging to view.
But let's talk about the myth. Ratatouille is a fun depiction of genius. Sure, it's more than a little cartoonish, but that's more than forgivable: True genius doesn't take itself too seriously either.
It's simply a well-wrought story with great character studies. The characters alone are an embarrassment of riches.
One of the astounding things about the story of Ratatouille is that it cleverly avoids one of the all-too-common, cop-out, standard-issue karmic machinations: (Here comes the modest spoiler) Most narrative products of this sort feel they have to find a way to dump on the "heavy" ("bad" guy), and this can even sometimes feel gratuitous.
Ratatouille not only refrains from this easy out, it goes one further and fully redeems the heavy. It shows, in a believable way, that "he wasn't bad, just misunderstood"; and had been so, for a long, long time. His exposure to true genius fulfills a deep and genuine need-- and this sets him right again. This was unexpected and enormously refreshing to see in a "pop" narrative product. This highlights a light-on-his-feet/turn-on-a-dime openness on the part of Brad Bird as narrator/director.
Check it out!