Anyone can cook... Even a rat (which i find to be disgusting)

Rating: 6/10 (15 April 2008)

Ratatouille
By Daniel Rosado
Directed: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava Cast:Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn, PeterO'Tolle, Brad Garret, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, Julius Callahan,James Remar, John Ratzenberger
Ratatouille is an animated film about a rat that is great cook, and helps out an heir to a famous chef. Remy(Patton Oswalt) is not your ordinary rat. He doesn't enjoy stealing and eating garbage. He believes you are what you eat and he doesn't want that to be garbage. He only liked eating the good food. His father,Django (Brian Dennehy) and brother, Emile (Peter Sohn) say that he's just picky with his food. Then one day after combining to different types of food Remy realized that combining food makes it taste better.
Remy learns a lot about cooking from watching Gusteau (Brad Garret) on TV and reading his book. After an incident involving an old lady with a shotgun, Remy finds himself at Gusteau's restaurant. Gusteau, now dead, is no longer in charge of the restaurant. The chef in charge is now Skinner (Ian Holm). Skinner hires a young awkward man to be a garbage boy, named Linguini (Lou Romano). Linguini is Gusteau's son, but no one knows this except for Skinner, who doesn't want anyone to find out.
Linguini doesn't know how to cook, but tries to fix some soup. Remy sees this and fixes Linguini's abomination. Everyone then likes the soup, and wants Linguini to make it again, so he and Remy have to work together as a team. Gusteau's then becomes renowned once again, and Linguini discovers he's Gusteau's son, thanks to Remy, but Skinner tries stopping them. Eventually all is well and both Remy and Linguini get to work together.
Ratatouille is a fun movie for the whole family. It's one of the better animated movies I've seen in a while. All the characters were great, and voices suited them well. The story seemed very original, and even though it sounds ridiculous when you hear about it, when you watch it you have fun.
While watching this movie you really do root for Remy and Linguini. The directors did a great job of making you feel what the main characters feel. You're happy when their happy and you're sad when their faced with a dilemma, or problem.
Usually animated movies are made for little kids that like to laugh at a cartoon when someone makes a funny face, but Ratatouille had more of a mature type of humor, not so much that a little kid couldn't enjoy it, but that everyone would like.
3.5 out of 5 stars