Has anyone else heard about this movie?
When I first saw it I was like huh? a movie about Rats but then I watched the trailer and its really cute. I promise you will fall in love with Remy:)
It’s been released?
Most sites that I’ve seen say that the premiere date will be June 22, 2007.
I am eager to see this movie for two reasons: I’ve had pet rats that I loved dearly, and Ratatouille is the creation of Brad Bird, the creative force behind The Iron Giant and The Incredibles.
Reason #3: The main character, Remy, is voiced by America’s Funniest Living Stand Up Comedian, Patton Oswalt.
Ooh, I didn’t know that. He is a very funny guy indeed. I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and almost laughed myself into an asthma attack.
Being a Pixar film, it’s got a predictably diverse and eclectic voice cast beyond Oswalt: Ian Holm, Brian Dennehy, Peter O’Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, and John Ratzenberger (a Pixar staple).
The story looks sweet and charming, the animation astonishing, and it should (I hope) run Shrek III into the ground.
SHame it doesn’t get released here until August.
The kids and my wife and I are looking forward to this one. It looks great.
BTW: Shrek the Third was funny, but nothing great.
Pixar always has this trend where the preview for a movie comes out and makes me go “meh.” Then I see the movie and wonder why I ever questioned their genius. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I had the opposite reaction with their Incredbles trailer. Found it hilarious, but the movie landed square in meh-ville
This movie looks like so much fun! And, except perhaps for the vast spaciousness of the kitchen, culinarily accurate. The herbs and leeks, for example, were perfect in context and looked exactly as they should. And while making the perfect French omelet is a pain in the derrière, it’s an essential part of learning French cooking. I should know, I ruined dozens of them in cooking school…I feel for the main (human) character already.
I saw the most recent trailer when I went to see Shrek 3 (meh on that movie). The trailer finally made me want to see the movie. I like most Pixar movies, but they lost me with Cars - thought it was stupid. This movie, I want to see.
Susan
The cooking aspect of it interests me. Well, the fact that we’re getting Pixar’s take psychologically, and artistically on cooking interests me.
So much of cooking is enjoying your space, and your tools, and the look and feel of food. I think they’ll do a great job with it.
I have liked to loved every Pixar movie except Cars. Cars was crap. No not crap, something stronger, it was painful to watch, annoying and stupid.
Jim
There are three words that guarantee a great animated film these days:
Brad Bird and Aardman
We had Aardman last year (with the superb Flushed Away), so now we have Brad Bird. I expect it to be terrific.
I like the concept of Shrek and enjoyed the first two movies (haven’t seen the third yet) but when it comes down to a choice between Pixar and Dreamworks, Pixar wins. Every time. This movie looks like a lot of fun.
We love Cars (and cars, too; which probably half explains the Cars-love!) and every time the DVD goes in, we watch the Ratatouille trailer. We already talk about “muscling our way past the gag reflex” … and the movie’s not even out!
We can’t wait!
Side note:
I can’t be the only person who, when seeing the word Ratatouille, immediately thinks of: “Rats, rats for sale! Get your rats! Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille!”
No Bayle, you’re not.
And I am looking forward to it too. It looks sweet.
I found the change in how the movie is being sold interesting. The first sets of trailers just suggested that the film was about rats in Paris running around and trying to get food in fancy restaurants, and my reaction was pretty disinterested. The new trailer expands that greatly, with the story now being about a rat who can cook and a cook who can’t working together. It looks far more interesting.