Pixar second best film to date

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2008)

Pixar have done it again. This is the Second Best Pixar film so far, as nothing beats Finding Nemo. It was directed by the Oscar-winning Brad Bird director and writer of "The Incredibles", who has created a film with humour, heart and meaning. If you see the film at the cinema it will begin with a hilarious so called "Pixar Short" called Lifted, that will actually make you cry with laughter. Anyway back to the story, it follows Remy a young and lovable rat with a special gift of hyper smell I suppose and he just loves to cook. He actually loves to cook so much that he ends up putting his huge rat family in danger and ends up in (with some help from his ghostly hero Gusteau, a top chef) Paris the food capital of the world and right in front of Gusteau's restaurant that's being run by Skinner who's just in it for the money not the love of food. Remy then makes a friend called Linguini who can't cook to save his life. So with some amazing discoveries and clever antics, Remy and Linguini run this top restaurant, with help from their staff of course. Then all goes wrong when Linguini falls for one of the chefs called Collette, Remy is fed up with Linguini getting all the credit for his work and worse of all, the food critic Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole Troy, Venus and many films that I am too young to know) that could determine a restaurants future by a few words. Well that's the clever and original story, but what really makes this film shine is the beautiful and absolutely mind blowing animation, the attention to detail is unbeatable and this definitely shows when you see the water in the sewers. This backed up with brilliant sound and brilliant voices from people that I have never heard of, except Peter O'Toole of course who gives quite interesting speech at the end. The message of this film is anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it and it doesn't matter where you come from, which I suppose is true. So overall a clever and warming film for the whole family, with humour that both children and adults will find funny.