Animated Celebration of the Transformative Power of Food

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2007)

Saw this movie at a drive in base on a recommendation on the cartoonbrew blog. First time I'd been to a drive in in 10 years and it was a nice experience. The second movie on the bill was Evan Almighty and I didn't bother to stay for that one since the reviews here have been bad. Here are my thoughts on Ratatouille: Excellent animation, nice story without the focus-group-topical-jokes, and they got the food right. Not quite the genius of The Triplets of Belleville but still a great movie. It would be interesting to show both movies back to back as they both use animation and food in contrasting ways. It's sad that many theaters showing this animated celebration of the transformative power of food are putting artificial butter flavor on the popcorn and serving chocolate laced with vanilla.