Ratatouille

Ratatouille is the eighth animated feature film produced by Pixar. Its name comes from the dish ratatouille. It was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States and was the winner of that year's Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Continuing a Pixar tradition, the first trailer for Ratatouille debuted with the theatrical release of its immediate predecessor (Cars).
==Plot==
The film tells the success story of an unlikely hero; a rat named Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) who finds himself in a Parisian restaurant made famous by an eccentric French chef, Auguste Gusteau. Rémy is not only a foodie, (so quite an outsider among his kinfolk), but aims to become a fine chef. This far-reaching ambition, incredibly enough, he achieves.Initial plot outline of Ratatouille
A Disney press release gives us the following plot outline:Further Plot Outline Of Ratatouille
In an interview, John Lasseter described the movie: "It is about a rat that wants to be a fine chef in a top French restaurant in Paris. It is a wonderful story about following your passions when all the world is against you. A rat to a kitchen is death; a kitchen to a rat is death." John Lasseter interview with reference to Ratatouille
==Crew==
The film is directed by Brad Bird, who previously directed the 2004 Pixar film The Incredibles. The film's original director Jan Pinkava, of the 1997 Pixar short film Geri's Game, is co-directing. The screenwriters are Emily Cook and Kathy Greenberg, both making their feature film debuts, from a story by Jan Pinkava. The film's score is composed by Michael Giacchino known for his works The Incredibles, One Man Band, Lost, and Toy Animals.
The film's executive producers are Disney-Pixar Animation's Chief Creative Officer, John Lasseter, who continues to retain this position on all Pixar films he does not personally direct and Andrew Stanton.
==Cast==
* Patton Oswalt as Remy, a highly intelligent rat with an enhanced sense of smell, and the main protagonist.
* Ian Holm as Skinner, a sleazy, dimunitive French chef who hates rats, and also the main antagonist. The character takes its name from B. D. Skinner, a scientist known for his experiments with rats.
* Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini, a clumsy garbage boy who forms a close bond with Remy. He is the deurtagonist.
* Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy's strict father.
* Peter Sohn as Emile, Remy's portly brother.
* Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a sneering food critic.
* Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently-deceased renowned chef and Remy's idol.
* Janeane Garofalo as Colette, the only female chef at Gusteau's and the love interest of Linguini.
* Will Arnett as Horst, a chef at Gusteau's
* Julius Callahan as Lalo, a chef at Gusteau's
* James Remar as Larousse, a chef at Gusteau's
* John Ratzenberger as Mustafa, the head waiter of Gusteau's
* Teddy Newton as Talon Labarthe, Skinner's lawyer
* Tony Fucile as Pompidou
* Jake Steinfeld as Git
* Brad Bird as Ambrister Minion
== Danske Stemmer ==
* Nikolaj Lie Kaas - Remy
* Anders Bircow - Skinner
* Jonas Schmidt - Linguini
* Kurt Ravn - Django
* Nicolas Bro - Emile
* Henning Jensen - Anton Ego
* Flemming Krøll - Gusteau
* Karoline Munksnæs - Colette
* Max Hansen - Horst
* Claus Meyer - Lalo
* Laus Høybye - Francois
* Hans Henrik Bærentsen - Larousse
* Farshad Kholghi - Mustafa
* Kristian Boland - Talon Labarthe
* Gordon Kennedy - Pompidou
* Rasmus Hammerich - Git
* Steen Stig Lommer - Ambrister
* Torsten Adler - Fortæller
=== Additional Voices ===
* Grethe Mogensen
* Karsten Jansfort
* Nanna Bøttcher
==Trivia==
* This was film debut for Patton Oswalt who had mainly done stand up comedy.
* The film's marketing materials say that the film's title is pronounced "rat•a•too•ee". This is purposely non-standard pronunciation syntax. The same applies for the German title where the phonetic notation is "ratte•tuu•ii" (Note: "Ratte" means rat in German.)
* The chef's name "Auguste Gusteau" involves both a homonym and an anagram. His last name appears to be pronounced the same as the Italian word "gusto", meaning "flavour", and his first name is an anagram of his last.
*The restaurant in Ratatouille is called “Gusteaus!” referring to the chef's name "Auguste Gusteau".
*In the movie Linguini appears to be have Hogarth's shoes from the movie The Iron Giant directed by Brad Bird.
*To save animation time, the human characters in the film were animated without toes.
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