Ratatouille

***Ratatouille*** is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was the eighth film produced by Pixar, and was co-written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005, and produced by Brad Lewis, from a original idea from Pinkava. The title refers to the French dish Ratatouille, which is served at the end of the film and also references the species of the main character, a rat. The plot follows a rat named Remy, who dreams of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an alliance with a Parisian restaurant's garbage boy.

The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as Remy, an anthropomorphic rat who is interested in cooking; Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini, a young garbage boy who befriends Remy; Ian Holm as Skinner, the head chef of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant; Janeane Garofalo as Colette, a rôtisseur at Gusteau's restaurant;Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a restaurant critic; Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy's father and leader of his clan; Peter Sohn as Emile, Remy's older brother; and Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently deceased chef.

The development of Ratatouille began in 2000 when Pinkava wrote the original concepts of the film. In 2005, Bird was approached to direct the film and revise the story. Bird and some of the film's crew members also visited Paris for inspiration. To create the food animation used in the film, the crew consulted chefs from both France and the United States. Bird also interned at Thomas Keller's The French Laundry restaurant, where Keller developed the confit byaldi, a dish used in the film. Michael Giacchino composed the Paris-inspired music for the film.

*Ratatouille* premiered on June 22, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California, with its general release June 29, 2007, in the United States. The film grossed $620.7 million at the box office and received critical acclaim. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was later voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures of the 21st century by a 2016 poll of international critics conducted by the BBC.

## Voice cast

### Additional Voices

* Jack Bird
* Andrea Boerries
* Marco Boerries
* Lindsey Collins
* Thomas Keller
* Brad Lewis
* Lori Richardson

### Paris Loop Group

* Eric Aubrahn
* Patrick Béthune
* Anne Dolan
* Jodi Forrest
* Steve Gadler
* David Gasman
* Matthew Geczy
* Randall Holden
* Kentaro
* Tercelin Kirtley
* Mark Lesser
* Sharon Mann
* Marie-Eugénie Maréchal
* Pascal Massix
* Marc Perez
* Douglas Rand
* Stéphane Roux
* Estelle Simon
* Sybille Tureau
* Allan Wenger
* Jean Marie Ancher

## Release

*Ratatouille* was originally going to be released in 2006; however, on December 7, 2004, the date was changed to 2007. This happened because Disney/Pixar changed the release date of *Cars*, from November 2005 to June 2006, thus pushing *Ratatouille* to 2007.

*Ratatouille*'s world premiere was on June 22, 2007, at Los Angeles' Kodak Theater. The commercial release was one week later, with the short film *Lifted* preceding *Ratatouille* in theaters. Earlier in the year, it had received an Academy Award nomination. A test screening of the film was shown at the Harkins Cine Capri Theater in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 16, 2007, at which a Pixar representative was present to collect viewer feedback. Disney CEO Bob Iger announced an upcoming theatrical re-release of the film in 3D at the Disney shareholders meeting in March 2014.

Originally at first, The was gonna be the first Pixar film released after ending their previous co-production deal with Disney. Some distributor choices named were Warner Bros. Pictures, Sony, Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. But on January 24, 2006, The project was moved to Disney due to Pixar being purchased by Disney in a $7.1 billion (US) deal that will merge two two companies.

### Marketing

The trailer for *Ratatouille* debuted with the release of *Cars,* its immediate predecessor. It depicts an original scene where Remy is caught on the cheese trolley in the restaurant's dining area, sampling the cheese and barely escaping the establishment, intercut with separate scenes of the rat explaining directly to the audience why he is taking such risks. Similar to most of Pixar's teaser trailers, the scene was not present in the final film release.

A second trailer was released on March 23, 2007. The Ratatouille *Big Cheese Tour* began on May 11, 2007, with cooking demonstrations and a film preview. Voice actor Lou Romano attended the San Francisco leg of the tour for autograph signings.

Disney and Pixar were working to bring a French-produced *Ratatouille*-branded wine to Costco stores in August 2007, but abandoned plans because of complaints from the California Wine Institute, citing standards in labelling that restrict the use of cartoon characters to avoid attracting under-age drinkers.

In the United Kingdom, in place of releasing a theatrical trailer, a commercial featuring Remy and Emile was released in cinemas before its release to discourage obtaining unlicensed copies of films. Also, in the United Kingdom, the main characters were used for a commercial for the Nissan Note, with Remy and Emile watching an original commercial for it made for the "Surprisingly Spacious" ad campaign and also parodying it, respectively.

Disney/Pixar was concerned that audiences, particularly children, would not be familiar with the word "ratatouille" and its pronunciation. The title was, therefore, also spelled phonetically within trailers and on posters. For similar reasons, in the American release of the film, on-screen text in French was printed in English, such as the title of Gusteau's cookbook and the sign telling kitchen staff to wash their hands, though, in the British English release, these are rendered in French. In Canada, the film was released theatrically with text in English, but on DVD, the majority of the text (including Gusteau's will) was in French.

## Theme park attraction

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