As they did with the Incredibles, Brad Bird and the team at Pixar made a movie just for me! No, really! How could they know so accurately about my likes, loves and interests in conjuring up such a perfect combination of the various themes, story elements, images, scenes, characters (and rat facial expressions and gestures)? This time it is all about food – good food – cooking, and kitchens, and you know how I feel about those topics.
Ratatouille is wonderful, and I imagine that (even though they made it just for me) you can go along and have a wonderful time too. I won’t tell you anything about it. Just find some time and go along and see it. I saw it last night at the Bridge (the very-good-but-not-nearly-as-good-as-Arclight movie complex) with a fellow food fan, after -appropriately- an excellent meal.
-cvj
I just saw it last night. It is indeed amusing.
Eloise is a fantastic name for a rat! How lovely!
Yes, the water throughout the film was really amazing…..rains, rivers, drips, soaked individuals, and so forth. Marvellous!
-cvj
What Pixar has discovered (invented) for this movie is water. I heard in an interview that their simulated water is just as unpredictable as the real thing and that created difficulties in syncing the sound effects.
As a former pet rat owner I can attest that rats are highly social, intellegent and extremely personable. Their also very tidy. Our Eloise used to sit on my shouilder and clean my ears for me. The scene where Remy runs away with the documents had me roaring because our rat was always stealing papers and hiding them under the sofa.
My 8-year-old son and I watched this movie last Saturday, and we really liked it a lot! The story and the animation are very well done. I went home with a real desire to eat some of what was shown there… 🙂
HI Amara!
Thanks. Not a bad recipe for Rats. (An old friend of mine used to call it Rats, and so sometimes I still tend to refer to it as such…)
(Personally, I’d never skin eggplants. The skin is fantastic! …Or Zucchini.)
Cheers,
-cvj
For a fantastic example of Pixar and fur look no further than the scene in ‘Monsters Inc’ when Sully falls of over in the snow on the Himalayas. Sully’s fur has snow caught in it and it is ripling in the wind. It is stunning animation which amazes me every time I see it (and my five year old daughter is possibly Pixar’s greatest fan, so I have seen this film many, many times!) I look forward to seeing ‘Ratatouille’!
I started seeing the trailers for this film when I was in California last November. It looks great. Since it is a film with a lot of French cooking and a rat (mouse?) named Ratatouille, then here is my favorite vegetable recipe (from a French friend’s mother…):
Ratatouille
2 eggplants, skinned, cut in pieces
4 zuchini, skinned, cut in pieces
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 kilogram tomatoes (If none, then add 1 can whole skinned tomatoes)
1 big onion
1 clove garlic
herbs from Provence
salt and pepper to taste
Put olive oil into big pot. Start cooking onion, add everything else, one by one. Cook on stove, medium heat, with lid on top of pot, until cooked, ~20-30 minutes. Mix from time to time. At the end, add a little bit of tomato paste/sauce.
The animation is out of this world brilliant! (To be fair, Pixar discovered fur and hair earlier than this movie…)
Enjoy.
-cvj
Aah, I saw the trailer some months ago and I thought ‘must see’! Thanks for the reminder 🙂
-B.
PS: The next thought was ‘Pixar has discovered fur’ – how are the animations?
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