Codswallop

Rating: 2/10 (18 July 2011)

I don't care if it looks good, this film patronising rubbish. Rat likes food, rat controls boy by twiddling with his hair to cook food, critic likes food and embraces the concept of rats in the kitchen! I'm sorry but is this the best story we can come with? Kudos to Pixar, they are masters of animation but when the story is as banal as this they may as well go back to crayons.
Spiritless, without heart, virtually no progression of narrative. Humour is severely lacking. Peril is minimal. As a result this story (and lets face it, story is quintessential) plods along going nowhere fast. Trading on marketing seems to be where animation films have been for a long time now. It seems to me that we're being presented with inane tale after inane tale. If only the children of today knew what they were missing. I don't care how nice the back drop looks, when the plot is as offensive as this it's obsolete.