Movie Review

Movie Review – Ratatouille

(Published in The Rivett – Women’s Christian College’s Campus Newspaper, 2007-2008.)

Screen Director – Brad Bird

Category – Animation

How about a thousand Rats cooking up some delectable cuisine in your kitchen?

Think you had better call the Pied Piper in? Well, think again.

If you can just for once sympathize with this most-abhorred creature, go on a date with Ratatouille this weekend, at Sathyam Theatres and you’ll be in for a whole new perspective shift about rats.

After a few moments, you’d forget that you’re watching a rat. Clever and humane, more than most human beings depicted in the movie, Remy the rat, picks up its love for cooking from the famous book of Chef Gustave which says ‘Anyone can Cook’ and from then on begins a passionate cooking affair between the Rat and well, Chef Gustave’s Ghost! The Rat has learnt the art now and uses it for a truly ‘altruistic’ purpose. From then on, I’m not giving it away because it is for you to see how.

There are many sequences which are riveting; you’re taken to places which you’d never have imagined visiting. The animators Dylan Brown and Mark Walsh have done an incredible job.

All in all, a movie that is worth every buck you pay.