... hearty and tasty, created from fresh ingredients and cooked up with unexpected flavors and dashes of spice, and it leaves a satisfying and inspiring warmth when it's done.
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06/28/07
Ratatouille (2007)
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Reviews Counted:210
Fresh:201
Rotten:9
Average Rating:8.4/10
Consensus: Pixar succeeds again with Ratatouille, a stunningly animated film with fast pacing, memorable characters, and overall good humor.
Theatrical Release:12-10-2007
Synopsis: With astounding animation, inspirational messages, and endearing characters, Pixar Animation Studios (THE INCREDIBLES, CARS) and Walt Disney Pictures have whipped up something special with... [More]
Reviews for Ratatouille
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Almost as funny, joyful, and heartfelt as anything that Pixar's merry band of genius-nerds has ever done.
06/28/07
Peter O'Toole's performance as the critic Anton Ego is worthy of another Oscar nomination.
06/28/07
The best comedy of the summer, animated or not, and perceptive parents may enjoy it even more than their offspring.
06/28/07
The Ratatouille concept could be off-putting -- a rat who dreams of using his bubonic paws to cook for humans at a ritzy Parisian restaurant -- but it's so funny and lovable that the ick factor vanishes almost immediately.
06/28/07
With Ratatouille, Bird once again delivers not just a great, witty story, but dazzling visuals as well.
06/28/07
It's not just the computer animation that is vibrantly three-dimensional. It's also the well-rounded characters... I defy you to name another animated film so overflowing with superfluous beauty.
06/28/07
In sequence after sequence, we are presented with visual set pieces that far exceed the imaginativeness of most live-action dramatic fare.
06/28/07
The best animated movie in well over a year, and one of the most magical, enjoyable movie experiences you'll have at the theater this summer or any time else this year.
06/28/07
Pixar's weakest film in almost a decade.
06/28/07
Bird has a rare cinematic gift: the ability to stage slam-bang action sequences without neglecting the rich emotional resonance that makes for a great story.
06/28/07
Bird has taken the raw ingredients of an anthropomorphic-animal kiddie matinee and whipped them into a heady brew about nothing less than the principles of artistic creation.
06/28/07
Pixar's animation is simply flawless; colorful, deeply realized, and ably conveying both the chaos of the kitchen, and the sensual allure of food well prepared.
06/28/07
Has Pixar lost its magic recipe? Ratatouille is filled with fairly generic animated imagery, a few modest chases, a couple of good gags, not a lot of laughs.
06/28/07
So many computer-animated movies are brash, loud and popping with pop-culture comedy, but Ratatouille has the warm glow of a favorite book. The characters are more than the sum of their gigabyte-consuming parts -- they feel handcrafted.
06/28/07
The film may be animated, and largely taken up with rats, but its pulse is gratifyingly human. And you have never seen a computer-animated feature with this sort of visual panache and detail.
06/28/07
Even more fun to watch than it is to say.
06/28/07
When Remy starts driving Linguini around like a puppet, it feels like something lifted from an episode of Pinky & the Brain.
06/28/07
A boisterous ode to culinary delights, artistic inspiration, egalitarianism, camaraderie, family, and Paris.
06/28/07
...Oswalt babbles away with the mania of a true obsessive. He's like Julia Child after too much wine.
06/28/07
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