If I don't love it, I don't swallow.

Rating: 4/10 (11 May 2020)

This movie looks great. The idea has lots of imagination. The set-up is superb.
So why is it so boring?
Once we get Remi and Linguini together, and they figure out how to work together, it all feels cliched. There is no real excitement to the story. Everything just slowly works its course.
Remi is cute and has a lot of heart, but the whole story of his family didn't really go anywhere. Linguini is very annoying, being such a clutz yet everyone just ignoring it. The love story was irrelevant. And what was going on with the bad guy (the little guy who was originally the head chef)? That whole story of him trying to use the restaurant's name for hocking instant food didn't really seem to fit with anything else.
Over all, this was a dish that looked and smelled great but had no real flavour.
I didn't swallow.