Feel it. Don't argue against it.

Rating: 10/10 (3 November 2008)

May contain minor spoilers!!
I believe as perhaps David Lynch would, that movies should be felt. I believe that movies are like mirrors, we watch them and we reflect our life, our thoughts from it. We pour our soul open and have an invisible discussion with the events on the screen.
When I was a child, I thought that the "bad older boys in the neighbourhood" who used to pick me were always on the side of the bad-guys in TV (makes sense when you are 5 years old). I still remember the day I figured out myself that perhaps the bad bullies are on McGyver's side too, just like me. That changed my thinking, my perception of life. That is who I am now as an adult, I believe that there is good in every one of us.
Why is it that so many of us think that all 3D animations nowadays have to have non-stop humour, entertainment value on maximum - fun-run for 2 hours..? Why so many of us are keeningly commenting on all the "morals" and realism that these films are suppose to present? Why couple of times saying "Don't steal" has to be taken so seriously? I personally don't think it is the main theme or "lesson" of this film at all. That sentence is needed for the story to evolve and to be happening in the first place! Remy wouldn't make a go for his chef-dream if he would be satisfied in thieving just like the rest of the rats! There are reviews here commenting on things like "how come a rat can understand speech and walk with 2 feet" etc... Of course everyone realises that animation has and is able to make reality more magical, but no one seems to notice the possibilities in story-telling this brings us.. For instance did anyone notice how Remy walks proudly on two feet when his co-operation with humans works well - and when he has his crash with Linguini he admits that he is just a rat and starts to go by fours again..? How the typewriter (shaped like a skull) of Mr Ego seems so much more natural after he has had his revelation? Brilliant little details like these are scattered all over this film! For me the best gag and most remarkable event in this movie is when the so-obvious-baddie turns out to have that good side in him after all. That the bad food-bullie who rips down restaurants for fun is deep inside an understanding and kind human being.
Tears came into my eyes again during that scene - Because I reflected, I mirrored what I saw on the screen through my own life. That in every one of us there lives a good soul - a happy child, instead of that angry selfish adult.
And this is not probably what the makers of this movie wanted to preach, nor probably was it their aim, but for me it was a great ending.