Original, involving, warm, and beautiful to look at obviously

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2007)

Pixar find themselves back on track after the slight misfire that was Cars, only stumbling a bit when introducing characters in the first twenty minutes. Afterwards, a joyous reverence for American computer animation's most prestigious unit became more and more apparent as viewers are led down this unique, heartfelt journey of one rodent's love for making tasty food the talk of all Paris. As downright preposterous some of the plot elements revolve around seem nearly everything works splendidly, from the inspired physics of Pixar's patently breathtaking chase scenes, comedic brilliance in a snobbish maturity of the antagonists, to the splendidly and poignantly captured climax. Ratatouille, if not the company's best work to date, represents a newfound creative realization for what is still hopefully only the beginning of these titan's computerized expressionism.