No up to the best of Disney standard

Rating: 5/10 (18 October 2012)

The animation is excellent especially the detailed and rapidly moving backgrounds. There is plenty of slapstick. They spend rather more time that I would like chasing the poor rat Remy all over the place with knives. The dialogue is a bit limp, similar to Ice Age, with only one in-joke for the adults that I noticed. Both the lead characters are supposed to be French, but have not a trace of a French accent. They both have aggressively American accents. I found this jarring. There is only occasional non-descript background music. Disney's best work in contrast puts singable music centre stage. The plot is somewhat predictable. Perhaps the most interesting thing is the way they manipulate the audience alternately to identify with the rats and feel disgust for them.