Probably the Best Film if Not most Entertaining of 2007!

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2008)

Ratatouile is one of those films than can entertain children as well as adults. It's smart, beautifully crafted in animation. The story of a Rat who aspires to be a great French chef like Gusteau, a fictional male Julia Child. He gets caught up watching Gusteau as he learns of his death from television where the resident of the house, an old French lady with a gun, goes literally ballistic when she sees two mice. She blows the ceiling only to discover a scene like in Williard or Ben about a thousand rats living above her. Horrified, she begins shooting like Dick Cheney on vacation. She doesn't stop once they leave her house which almost destroyed. She goes right on separating the main character rat and his family and friends. He begins talking to Gusteau in his cookbook which he uses as a life raft away from the crazy lady with a rifle actually. Slowly, he finds himself at Gusteau's restaurant and slowly warms up to the aspiring human chef.