Tasty (but more like a Big Mac than like great french cuisine).

Rating: 6/10 (20 September 2007)

"Ratatouille" is really clever, entertaining and, of course, very "well done" (from a technical aspect, beside Squaresoft, no animation studio can reach Pixar's level). But, is it enough to make a good movie ? I'm not sure, and Pixar itself seems to have lowed down its standards here, in order to be more in a classical Disney's tradition.
Don't get me wrong, some ideas are brilliant : especially when the rat "pupetmastered" the human, or the touching ending with the critic's critic, or the Head Cheaf's characters, who is very funny, etc. But somehow, the story - and especially the human's parts, who seems paradoxically less human than the fishes, the monsters or the toys of other's movies - lack of the deep you normally supposed to find in a Pixar movie. The mousse tries to hides inside a rat's figure, but you still can see the disneyen's hears of the animal. The all moral aspect is for instance very shallow (and furthermore, it's almost Shrek one : no matter what you are, if you try hard enough, you can become what you truly are).
Of course, it's far better than the last other's American animation's studio's recent works, but its far more childish than, say, "The Incredibles", witch was directed by the same Brad Bird. I also was quite disappointed by "Cars", and I have the feeling that Pixar's singularity and originality is a little lost, replaced by the dominant classical Disney's moral.
Well, at least, this years, 2-D animation brings me "The Simpsons : The movie", and I'm gonna watch it one more time, waiting for the sequel more than the next Pixar's movie.
PS : For Animation's fans and movies'lovers, "Persepolis" is also a must-see of the year : there's more than American's 3D in the cartoon's life...