Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #531 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-02-11
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Hindi
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 107 minutes

Customer Reviews

Delicious!
My husband & I saw this at the Cinema (without our children) and loved it! The story of Remy, the rat with a genius for cooking is fantastic. It moves along at a cracking pace using all the creative, high energy, visual effects that you would expect from PIXAR but without losing emotional connection. SPOILER Alert: The morality story of how this lowliest, most vilified of creatures has the talent and finds the spirit to climactically topple the opinion of society's most revered judge, the aptly named food critic Anton Ego (superbly voiced by the one and only Peter O'Toole - who undergoes his own journey of transformation) is wonderfully uplifting. As others have mentioned the sight of a kitchen crawling with rats is so uncomfortable, that it also makes you question your own prejudices, and whether you really believe that `Anyone can cook'. There is a wonderful extra on the DVD where Remy and his brother explain the bad press rats have had and how The Plague was not their fault...!

Then of course there is the sensory experience in the film. A lovely depiction of the sights, sounds and smells of Paris, the wonderful way Remy tries to explain flavour and fusion of flavours to his brother depicted by colour and music and not least, the food preparation itself. You can almost taste the soup and of course the fantastic ratatouille that Remy prepares at the end.

By the way a tip if like us, you have children under 10. They loved the DVD with the English-descriptive setting turned on (initially by accident, but hey!). This narrative fills in many of the visual cues that they would otherwise miss.

Lifted - the failed alien abduction was hilarious and is also included on the DVD along with loads of other fascinating extras.

Entertaining, taste-bud and thought-provoking stuff, top marks.

Another animated classic for the whole family.
Brad Bird weaves his magic again with this charming peasant done good story. The fact that a story about a rat cooking michelin-rated food actually made it to production gives an idea of how good the story and animation had to be. And they're better.

The scene with the food critic tasting the dish is one of the most memorable scenes ever produced.

Definitely one of the best films of 2007
I had some reservations about seeing this film. To be honest, knowing it was about a rat, and that the title was Ratatouille put me off - it seemed too obvious from that alone. I was quite wrong. This is an excellent Pixar movie. I loved the critic - I couldn't help but think the character was based on Will Self - and the whole concept of the story - its very easy to knock / criticise something, its far harder to actually get out there and make something I think can resonate across all age groups. As usual for Pixar, superb animation, and I think setting the film in Paris added to the movie, I thought the human characters were far more multi-dimensional than other animated movies I've seen over the past few years. An excellent animated movie, up there with the Incredibles for the genre in my opinion.