Yesterday we took the kids to see "Ratatouille." All in all, it's a fun, clever movie, and particularly appealing to foodies like me. However, a rat is still a rat. One little rat talking to the camera is cute; a couple hundred rats scuttling across a kitchen floor is beyond skeevy—and I can only blame the wonderful folks at Pixar for making their animation so damn realistic. My skin was positively crawling during a few scenes.
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July 05, 2007
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You only say that because of your recent mouse adventures. I've seen a couple of professional reviews of this movie and I hear it's fabulous! Maybe I'll find me a little kid and take him to it. :)
Posted by: scott | July 05, 2007 at 09:55 PM
We saw it this weekend, and it made me want to go home to the kitchen! I really enjoyed it.
Posted by: Florinda | July 05, 2007 at 11:15 PM
Yes, I very much enjoyed all the foodie stuff, but the entire rat "commune"? Not so much.
Posted by: Karen | July 06, 2007 at 09:49 AM
As someone who's returned to culinary school at 40, I will say this: I'd much rather work with rats.
Wonderful movie.
Posted by: Loren | July 06, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Reminds me of the "Honey I Shrunk the Audience" attraction at Disney World. It's one of those 3-D things, and you can actually "feel" mice crawling up your legs as you watch.
Posted by: Elena | July 06, 2007 at 02:22 PM
We saw it! We loved it! Pixar keeps outdoing itself.
Poor Karen and the horde-of-rats scene.
Would it make you feel any better to hear that I stepped on a large slug with my bare foot on July 4th? It's a day freedom, after all! I freed his soul.
You may puke now.
Posted by: mommyralf | July 06, 2007 at 11:28 PM
In interviews with Brad Bird, I've read that yours is the reaction he wanted! Originally, the rats were more anthropomorphic, but he contended that they needed to be more rat-like in order to elicit a more visceral reaction. I thought that the juxtaposition of rat/human cooking scenes worked well, but the final few scenes (SPOILER ALERT) showing the whole rat family saving the restaurant to be a wee bit pat. That being said, I agree with Florinda - I wanted to go home and cook!. Erratum - this was my wife's first drive-in movie! The Wellfleet Drive-In is a great vacation stop on Cape Cod.
Posted by: Joel | July 08, 2007 at 01:00 AM