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Ratatouille [DVD] [2007]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 8717418150426
Label : Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Publisher : Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release date : 2008-02-11
Title : Ratatouille [DVD] [2007]
Audience rating : Universal, suitable for all
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2007-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 107
Studio : Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 2007

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
As good a film as Pixar has ever put out, IRatatouille/I is a frantic, innovative movie, boasting some of the finest quality animation ever put on the screen. P IRatatouille/I tells the story of wannabe-chef Remy The Rat, who becomes drawn into the mantra of legendary cook Gusteau, that anyone can cook. The deceased Gusteau’s ghostly image appears to Remy, and guides him to his restaurant, whose standards have been slipping since his death. Remy, through the manipulation of a lowly restaurant worker called Linguini, soon starts secretly cooking the food, and this unusual set up proves to be a trove of treasures that Pixar carefully picks through. P IRatatouille/I’s trick is to tie its cutting edge animation techniques to old-school essentials. At times harking back to the frenetic style you’d expect of Chuck Jones, it threads an original narrative through its story, which itself is packed with memorable characters (none more so than Peter O’Toole’s superbly-voiced restaurant critic). It perhaps runs a little too long, but it’s so well-written and so lavishly entertaining that it’s a churlish complaint to have. P For in an era of cynically-produced family movies, IRatatouille/I is really something special. With an appeal that spreads across generations, and a quality that puts it right up there with Pixar’s finest, it’s an outstanding piece of cinema, and one set to be enjoyed for many, many years. Unmissable. --ISimon Brew/I

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-06-13 rating:

ok
It is aok film but I sore it 3 times at the cinima one time with my mum and dad and my brother and a nother time withmy freind Joseph and with a after school thing called sunflowers all in middlebough cinima it is a great cinima.It is fine.

review by: date: 2009-06-13 rating:

review by: date: 2009-06-11 rating:

Well done Pixar
I had seen a couple of adverts for this film so knew it was about a rat in a kitchen in Paris, but that was about it. This film is so much more and Pixar have done an excellent job (again). The story moves at quite a fast pace so you are never bored, presumably because it's aimed at children rather than couples in their mid thirties (such as me and my OH). There is plenty of humour which isn't just aimed at the children, there are references in there that will be appreciated by adults as well. As with all the recent Pixar films the animation and attention to detail is fantastic. br / br /A highly recommended film br /

review by: Flaze date: 2009-06-02 rating:

Totally Endearing
I really thought I'd hate this film when it came out; it looked to be just another piece of hyperbolic cartoon-animal silliness as is the trend these days. Happily though, the film was much more than this. br / br /The premise is fairly simple: there is a rat, Remy, with refined gustatory senses who wants to cook and taste exquisite food rather than the muck his fellows eat. To this end, he contrives to enter a once reputable restaurant in Paris, prompted by the ghost(/figment of Remy's imagination) of the famous chef Gusteau (whom Remy deeply admires), who used to own that restaurant; and, after some complications, Remy ends up secretly showing the new (and inept) chef Linguini how to cook inspirational food once again. br / br /The villains of the film are the bad-tempered, money pinching 'Skinner' (the present head of the restaurant), contemptuous of Linguini and jealous of his apparent culinary success; and the cold, opprobrious critic 'Ego' responsible for the restaurant's recent decline. Both are dealt with in quite different ways, but we find a sort of justificatory raison d'etre for the worse villain who in the end is 'not so bad'. br / br /Ratatouille is engaging because of the criss-crossing of narrative threads: both Remy and Linguini have their own separate concerns as well as sharing in each others, but as the climax approaches, both sets of concerns touchingly (if a little predictably) resolve into the same aim. br / br /However, a dominant 'strand' of the film is that talent can be found in any section of society (including rats!) and that it is not pretentiousness in fine cuisine that wins the day, but genuine and unaffected quality. This idea resonates very strongly at a deep level, which is incidentally why people like Susan Boyle and Paul Potts were so cherished on the tv show Britain's Got Talent, for they were exactly the kind of people the viewers were most impressed by. br / br /In the same way, Remy is ultimately cherished not only for his natural talent, but for his driving determination to do (very well) what he loves best, and so help someone else who needs all the help he can get!

review by: Saturday coffee is always better than Monday coffee. date: 2009-05-13 rating:

Welcome 'Offense of the New'... While Invoking the Old
All great recipes, whether the provincial peasant dish ratatouille (a vegetable stew), or the greatest and newest dish by Charlie Trotter, draw from the ordinary. Such is the romance of eating. It is the combining of the known to create something previously unknown. Salt, tomatoes, sugar, butter are not unusual, but, in the hands of a master chef, they are ingredients for art. br / br /Such is the movie Ratatouille. Its history is the simple, oft-told childhood tale of the elves and the shoemaker. A shoemaker is down on his luck, with one piece of leather left, and, to his great delight, a fine pair of shoes are miraculously made with that leather when he awakes. Can he make those shoes again? Who was the mysterious maker of these fantastic shoes? br / br /Ratatouille takes us to a similar difficulty: Linguini, a hapless mid-20s guy who has failed at every job. At the great Gusteau's Restaurant, he becomes a garbage boy. He causes an accident with a pot of soup, and, in trying to fix the problem, makes the soup offensive to even the most plebeian of taste buds. Remy, a rat with culinary sensitivities, secretly adds the ingredients necessary to save the soup. br / br /Instead of being fired, Linguini is promoted to cook. Without Remy's help, he cannot cook. With Remy's help, he shows, as the late Chef Gusteau claimed, anyone can cook. Even the garbage boy. br / br /Remy's story, though, is the tension between his passion for cooking, and his large family. They are satisfied eating garbage, living on the run, and avoiding kitchens, as that's where the greatest dangers prevails. Reminiscent of Richard Bach's fable "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," Remy wants more than to be what rats have always been. He wants to taste, to smell, to combine two flavors into a new ecstatic sensation. Torn between these two loves, he tries to balance their expectations with his dreams. br / br /As Remy's influence through Linguini in the kitchen grows, so does the renewal of Gusteau's Restaurant. It had fallen into the hands of Skinner, the ambitious and evil sous chef, when Gusteau passed away, and he was making it into a tourist locale, and branding frozen burritos with Gusteau's imprimatur. Now, Linguini as the new Gusteau, its reputation was flourishing. br / br /Anton Ego, a food critic who despises Gusteau's, is forced to reconsider the restaurant after he thought he had written its death knell years back. With fearful awe, his declaration to return to Gusteau's causes trembling among the cooks and staff. br / br /Can Ego's pretentious palate be satiated? br / br /Will the conflict with Linguini and Colette, his lover and cook, force bad decisions in the kitchen? br / br /Can a restaurant survive if people learn a rat has been running the show? br / br /In all, Ratatouille's a remarkable movie that relies on storytelling, not on celebrity voicings, special effects, pop-culture references or cheap humor. It tells an old story a new way, bringing a fresh flavor into a familiar meal, and is soon to be a staple in family DVD collections. See in the theater, and enjoy the magnificent animation on a large screen while you can. br / br /--Brockeim

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