Review: Ratatouille
Writer/director Brad Bird missed out a bit with his first Pixar Studios release, The Incredibles, 3 years ago. Sure it was entertaining, but lacked the warmth of his first animation The Iron Giant.
His second Pixar/Disney team-up, is a whole other story. Back in with great character design (also missing, or at least, too predictable in The Incredibles), and originality. A bit of unpredictability goes a long way, but the direction has also improved by a great margin. Great point-of-view shots keeps it interesting, with many sizzling hot chase scenes for excitement and superb atmospheric lighting amplifying the romantic Parisian feeling.
Mixing vermin rats with exotic food is an utterly bad and disgusting idea, but how this movie is presented, it’s as exquisite as the imagined prepared dishes on-screen.8½.