Ratatouille (film)

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Ratatouille

Theatrical poster
Directed by Brad Bird
Jan Pinkava
(Credited as co-director)
Produced by Brad Lewis
Written by Brad Bird
Story:
Jan Pinkava
Jim Capobianco
Brad Bird
Emily Cook
Kathy Greenberg
Starring Patton Oswalt
Lou Romano
Peter Sohn
Brad Garrett
Janeane Garofalo
Ian Holm
Brian Dennehy
Peter O'Toole
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography Robert Anderson
Sharon Calahan
Editing by Darren T. Holmes
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Release date(s) RUS June 28, 2007
NAJune 29, 2007
FRA August 1, 2007
AUS

PHI August 28, 2007
September 6, 2007
UK October 12, 2007
Running time 111 mins
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget US$150 million[1]
Gross revenue Worldwide: US$620,261,049
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile

Ratatouille (pronounced /ˌrætəˈtuːiː/, /-ˈtwiː/; French: /ʁatatuj/[2]) is a 2007 Oscar winning computer-animated family film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was the eighth movie produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. It was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States, to both critical acclaim and box office success. The title refers to a French dish which is served in the film, and is also a play on words on the species of the main character.

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[edit] Plot

Rémy is a rat who lives in the attic of a French country home with his brother Émile and his father Django, the leader of a rat colony. Inspired by a television show hosted by France's recently deceased top chef, Auguste Gusteau, Rémy does his best to learn how to cook. Underappreciating his exceptionally discerning sense of smell, his clan puts him to work sniffing for rat poison in their food.

The old woman who lives in the house discovers the rat infestation and immediately sets out to exterminate the vermin with a shotgun. As he flees with the rest, Rémy grabs Gusteau's cookbook. He is separated from the others and floats through a storm sewer on the book, ending up by chance at his idol's namesake restaurant, now run by former sous-chef Skinner.

Alfredo Linguini, a young man with no culinary talent, shows up at the restaurant with a letter of introduction from his recently deceased mother. Because she is fondly remembered by the staff as Gusteau's old flame, a reluctant Skinner is pressured into hiring him to clean up. On his first day, Linguini spills a portion of a pot of soup and attempts to cover up his mistake by adding nearby ingredients at random. The horrified Rémy, watching from a skylight, falls into the kitchen. While trying to escape out the window, he cannot resist the temptation to fix the soup along the way. Linguini catches Rémy in the act, just as Skinner confronts Linguini. During the confusion, some of the soup is served to a critic, who is favorably impressed.

Rémy discovers that he can control Linguini's movements by pulling on his hair.
Rémy discovers that he can control Linguini's movements by pulling on his hair.

The kitchen's sole female cook, Colette Tatou, convinces Skinner not to fire Linguini; Skinner agrees, provided Linguini recreates the soup. When Skinner spots Rémy, pandemonium breaks out. After Linguini traps Rémy in a jar, Skinner orders him to dispose of him. Knowing Rémy was responsible for the soup, Linguini cannot bring himself to kill him. He tells Rémy his problems and discovers that Rémy understands him. The unlikely pair form an alliance. Rémy (referred to by Linguini as "Little Chef") secretly directs Linguini like a marionette; Rémy tugs at Linguini's hair to control his (involuntary) movements while remaining hidden under Linguini's toque blanche. Meanwhile, Skinner learns from Linguini's letter of introduction that, unknown to everyone but his mother, Linguini is in fact Gusteau's son and stands to inherit the restaurant, imperiling Skinner's ambition to exploit Gusteau's image to market low-quality prepared frozen foods.

When customers ask for another dish besides the soup, Skinner tries to sabotage Linguini by ordering him to prepare an old Gusteau recipe that had been a disaster. Rémy changes the dish, over Colette's determined opposition, and it proves to be another hit. Skinner, suspicious of Linguini's success, plies the boy with vintage Château Latour in an attempt to discover his secret. However, the sly questioning yields nothing.

That same night, Rémy and his colony are reunited. At the ensuing celebration party, he surprises his father by saying that he is not going to stay, but continue to associate with humans. Django tries to get Rémy to change his mind by showing him the storefront of a rodent control business, with dead rats in traps displayed in the window. Rémy, though horrified, refuses to believe that enmity is inevitable between the two species and leaves. The next morning, Linguini nearly confides his secret to Colette. Desperate to stop him, Rémy makes him fall on Colette and they end up kissing. They begin dating.

Rémy discovers the letter from Linguini's mother, along with Gusteau's will, in Skinner's office. He is discovered in the act by Skinner, resulting in a chase through the streets of Paris. Rémy gets away and presents the documents to Linguini, which results in Linguini assuming ownership of the restaurant, firing Skinner, and becoming a rising star in the culinary world. Skinner becomes obsessed with ruining Linguini and catching Rémy; he anonymously informs a health inspector that the restaurant is infested with rats.

Meanwhile, demanding food critic Anton Ego shows up at the restaurant and issues a challenge to Linguini by announcing that he will return the following night to review his cuisine. (Ego's contemptuous review of Chef Gusteau's cooking had reduced his coveted five-star rating to four and eventually led to the chef's untimely death, which dropped his restaurant's rating another star.) Later, Rémy and Linguini quarrel, and Linguini decides that he no longer needs Rémy's help. Rémy retaliates by leading a kitchen raid by his fellow rats. Linguini looks for Rémy to apologize, only to catch the rats in the act.

Things come to a head the next night when Ego returns. Rémy returns to help Linguini, who picks that ill-timed moment to finally admit the truth to the staff. They all think he has lost his mind and walk out, even Colette. However, she returns, remembering Gusteau's mantra, "Anyone can cook!" Django, impressed by his son's determination, has his rats work under Rémy, while Linguini waits tables using roller skates. The health inspector tipped off by Skinner chooses that night to show up and sees the rats in the kitchen; he is promptly tied up, gagged, and thrown in the pantry. After bursting into the kitchen later, Skinner suffers the same fate.

Rémy decides to prepare ratatouille for Ego, much to Linguini and Colette's surprise. It is a humble traditional dish not considered haute cuisine, but Rémy prepares it so well that the first taste of it causes Ego to relive a childhood memory of his mother making it for him. Ego compliments Linguini, but Linguini admits to only being the waiter. When Ego insists on thanking the chef, after a frantic consultation, Linguini and Colette agree on condition that Ego wait until after the rest of the customers have left. A changed man, Ego writes a glowing review, declaring the chef at Gusteau's the greatest in all of France.

In the dénouement, Gusteau's is closed by the health inspector, and Ego loses his job and credibility when the news gets out that he has praised a rat-infested restaurant. However, with Ego as investor and regular patron, Linguini, Colette, and Rémy open a successful new bistro called "La Ratatouille", which includes a kitchen modified to accommodate Rémy and a separate dining area for rats in its attic. A line of people is shown waiting outside the filled restaurant, under a sign with a rat wearing a toque and wielding a cooking spoon.

[edit] Production

Jan Pinkava came up with the concept and directed the film from 2001, creating the original design, sets and characters and core storyline.[3] Lacking confidence[4] in Pinkava's story development, Pixar management replaced him with Bird in 2005.[5][6][7] Bird was attracted to the film because of the outlandishness of the concept and the conflict that drove it: that kitchens feared rats, yet a rat wanted to work in one.[8] Bird was also delighted that the film could be made a highly physical comedy,[5] with the character of Linguini providing endless fun for the animators.[9] Bird rewrote the story, with a change in emphasis. He killed off Gusteau, gave larger roles to Skinner and Colette,[10] and also changed the appearance of the rats to be less anthropomorphic.[11]

Because Ratatouille is intended to be a romantic, lush vision of Paris, giving it an identity distinct from previous Pixar films,[5] director Brad Bird, producer Brad Lewis and some of the crew spent a week in the city to properly understand its environment, taking a motorcycle tour and eating at five top restaurants.[12] There are also many water-based sequences in the film, one of which is set in the sewers and is more complex than the humpback whale scene in Finding Nemo. One scene has Linguini wet after jumping into the Seine to fetch Rémy. A Pixar employee (Shade/Paint Dept Coordinator Kesten Migdal) wearing a chef uniform and apron jumped into Pixar's swimming pool to see which parts of the suit stuck to his body and which became translucent from water absorption.[13]

[edit] Food design

A challenge for the filmmakers was creating computer-generated food animations that would appear delicious. Gourmet chefs in both the US and France were consulted,[11] and animators attended cooking classes at San Francisco-area culinary schools,[14] to understand the workings of a commercial kitchen. Sets/Layout Dept Manager Michael Warch, a culinary-academy trained professional chef prior to working at Pixar, helped teach and consult animators as they worked. He also prepared dishes used by the Art, Shade/Paint, Effects and Sets Modeling Departments.[15][16] Celebrity chef Thomas Keller allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his French Laundry kitchen. For the film's climax, Keller designed a fancy, layered version of the title dish for the rat characters to cook, which he called "confit byaldi" in honor of the original Turkish name.[14] The same sub-surface light scattering technique that was used on skin in The Incredibles was used on fruits and vegetables,[17] while new programs gave an organic texture and movement to the food.[18] Completing the illusion were music, dialogue, and abstract imagery representing the characters' mental sensations while appreciating food. The visual flavor metaphors were created by animator Michel Gagné inspired by the work of Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren.[19] To create a realistic compost pile, the Art Department photographed fifteen different kinds of produce, such as apples, berries, bananas, mushrooms, oranges, broccoli, and lettuce, in the process of rotting.[20]

[edit] Character design

According to Pixar designer Jason Deamer "Most of the characters were designed while Jan [Pinkava] was still directing," "He has a real eye for sculpture."[21] For example, according to Pinkava, the critic Anton Ego was designed to resemble a vulture.[22] Rat expert Debbie Ducommun (a.k.a. the "Rat Lady") was consulted on rat habits and characteristics.[23] A vivarium containing pet rats sat in a hallway for more than a year so animators could study the movement of the animals' noses, ears, paws, and tails as they ran.[17] The cast members strove to make their French accents authentic yet understandable. John Ratzenberger notes that he often segued into an Italian accent.[12]

[edit] Cast

[edit] Main characters

  • Patton Oswalt as Rémy, a country rat who winds up in Paris, where he fulfills his dream of cooking. Director Brad Bird chose Patton Oswalt to voice Rémy after hearing his food-related comedy routine.[8]
  • Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini, a clumsy garbage boy who becomes a famous chef overnight, though Rémy does the actual cooking.
  • Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou, the only female chef in the kitchen, who eventually becomes Linguini's girlfriend and Rémy's only supporter among the original Gusteau kitchen staff.
  • Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a feared, powerful food critic whose harsh criticism drove Gusteau to his death. He claims to love food and refuses to swallow any that does not match up to his lofty expectations. Anton Ego's appearance was modelled after Louis Jouvet.[25]
  • Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a deceased master chef. He often apppears as a figment of Rémy's imagination, talking to him and acting much like his conscience. Many reviewers drew upon similarities between Gusteau and the real-life chef Bernard Loiseau, who committed suicide after media speculation that his flagship restaurant La Côte d'Or was going to be downgraded from three Michelin stars to two.[26] La Côte d'Or was one of the restaurants visited by Brad Bird and others in France [12].
  • Brian Dennehy as Django, the father of Rémy and Emile. He wants nothing more than for his son to stay with the colony, and has a bias against humans.
  • Peter Sohn as Emile, Rémy's older brother. He is loyal and good-hearted, though unimaginative, and is Rémy's confidant. He also indiscriminately wolfs down anything that seems remotely edible, much to Rémy's dismay.

[edit] Other characters

[edit] Release

Ratatouille's world premiere was on June 22, 2007 at Los Angeles' Kodak Theater. [27] The commercial release was one week later, with the Academy Award nominated short film Lifted preceding Ratatouille in theaters.[28] A special pre-release of the film was shown at the Harkins Cine Capri Theater in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 16, 2007 at which a Pixar representative was present to collect viewer feedback.

[edit] Marketing

The trailer for Ratatouille debuted with the release of its immediate predecessor, Cars. It depicts an original scene where Rémy is caught on the cheese cart in the restaurant's dining area sampling the cheese and barely escaping the establishment, intercut with separate scenes of the rat explaining directly to the audience why he is taking such risks. Similar to most of Pixar's teaser trailers, the scene was not present in the final film release.

A second trailer was released on March 23, 2007.[29] The Ratatouille Big Cheese Tour began on May 11, 2007, with cooking demonstrations and a film preview.[30] Voice actor Lou Romano attended the San Francisco leg of the tour for autograph signings.[31]

The front label of the planned Ratatouille wine to have been promoted by Disney, Pixar, and Costco, and subsequently pulled for its use of a cartoon character.
The front label of the planned Ratatouille wine to have been promoted by Disney, Pixar, and Costco, and subsequently pulled for its use of a cartoon character.

Disney and Pixar were working to bring a French-produced Ratatouille-branded wine to Costco stores in August 2007, but abandoned plans because of complaints from the California Wine Institute, citing standards in labeling that restrict the use of cartoon characters to avoid attracting under-age drinkers.[32]

In the United Kingdom, in place of releasing a theatrical trailer, a theatrical commercial featuring Rémy and Émile was released in cinemas prior to its release to discourage obtaining pirated films.[33] Also in the United Kingdom, the main characters were used for a theatrical commercial for the Nissan Note, with Rémy and Émile watching an original commercial for it made for the "Surprisingly Spacious" ad campaign and also parodying it respectively.[34]

Disney/Pixar were concerned that audiences, particularly children, would not be familiar with the word "ratatouille" and its pronunciation. The title was therefore also spelt phonetically within trailers and on posters.[35][36] For similar reasons, in the American release of the film, on-screen text in French was printed in English, such as the title of Gusteau's cookbook and the sign telling kitchen staff to wash their hands, though in the British English release, these are rendered in French.

Quite humorously, in Japan, the title of the film is レミーのおいしいレストラン (Japanese Wikipedia entry)., which is translated as "Remy's Delicious Restaurant".

[edit] Blu-ray Disc & DVD release

Ratatouille was released on high-definition Blu-ray Disc and standard DVD in North America on November 6, 2007.[37] One of the special features on the disc is a new animated short film featuring Rémy and Emile entitled Your Friend the Rat, in which the two rats attempt to entreat the (human) viewer to welcome rats as their friends, demonstrating the benefits and misconceptions of rats towards humanity through several historical examples. The eleven minute short uses 3D animation, 2D animation, live action and even stop motion animation, a first for Pixar.[38]

The disc also includes a CG short entitled Lifted. It depicts an adolescent extra-terrestrial attempting to abduct a sleeping human. Throughout the sequence, he is graded by an adult extraterrestrial in a manner reminiscent of a driver's licensing exam road test. The entire short contains no dialog.

Also included among the special features deleted scenes, a featurette featuring Brad Bird discussing filmmaking and Chef Thomas Keller discussing culinary creativity entitled "Fine Food and Film", and four easter eggs.

[edit] Reception

Brad Bird with his Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Brad Bird with his Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

[edit] Box office

In its domestic opening weekend, Ratatouille opened in 3,940 theaters and debuted at #1 with $47 million,[39] the lowest Pixar opening since A Bug's Life. However, in France, where the film is set, the film broke the record for the biggest debut for an animated film.[40] In the UK, the film debuted at #1 with sales over £4million.[41] As of January 13, 2008 the film has grossed $206,445,654 in North America and a total of $617,245,654 worldwide, making it the third highest grossing Pixar film of all time, just behind Finding Nemo and The Incredibles .[42]

[edit] Critical reaction

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Critical reaction to the film was almost unanimously positive. On film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Ratatouille has a 97% rating from 200 reviews,[43] while it has a Metacritic score of 96% based on 37 reviews, the seventh-highest score of all on the website as of April 2008.[44]

It was nominated for five Oscars including Best Animated Feature Film which it won. A. O. Scott of The New York Times called Ratatouille "a nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film" and ended his review with a simple "thank you" to the creators of the film. [45] Both Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times and Jeffrey Lyons from NBC's Reel Talk said in their reviews that they loved the film so much, they are hoping for a sequel. Several reviews noted that Anton Ego's critique at the end of the movie could be taken, and at least in one case was taken,[46] as "a slap on the wrist" for professional critics.[47][48]

[edit] Top ten lists

The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.[49]

[edit] Awards and nominations

Award Category Winner/Nominee Result
Academy Awards[53] Animated Feature Film Brad Bird Won
Original Score Michael Giacchino Nominated
Original Screenplay Screenplay by Brad Bird. Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird Nominated
Sound Editing Randy Thom and Michael Silvers Nominated
Sound Mixing Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane Nominated
Annie Awards [54] Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Best Animated Video Game THQ, Inc. Won
Individual Achievement in Animated Effects Gary Bruins Nominated
Individual Achievement in Animated Effects Jon Reisch Nominated
Character Animation in a Feature Production Michal Makarewicz Won
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Carter Goodrich Won
Directing in an Animated Feature Production Brad Bird Won
Music in an Animated Feature Production Michael Giacchino Won
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Harley Jessup Won
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Ted Mathot Won
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Janeane Garofalo as Colette Nominated
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Ian Holm as Skinner Won
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Patton Oswalt as Rémy Nominated
Writing in an Animated Feature Production Brad Bird Won
Austin Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
BAFTA Awards Best Animated Film Brad Bird Won
Boston Film Critics Best Screenplay Brad Bird Won
Broadcast Film Critics [55] Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Chicago Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Best Screenplay - Original Brad Bird Nominated
Critics' Choice Awards [56] Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Golden Globe Awards [57] Best Animated Feature Film Pixar Animation Studios Won
Grammy Awards [58] Best Score Soundtrack Album Michael Giacchino Won
Hollywood Film Festival [59] Movie of the Year Pixar Animation Studios Nominated
Special Honor for Animation Pixar Animation Studios Won
Kids Choice Awards Favorite Animated Movie Brad Bird Won
Las Vegas Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Best Family Film Pixar Animation Studios Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
National Board of Review Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Oklahoma Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Online Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
People's Choice Awards Favorite Family Movie Pixar Animation Studios Nominated
Phoenix Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
San Diego Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Satellite Awards Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Best Youth DVD Pixar Animation Studios Won
Best Original Score Michael Giacchino Nominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Best Animated Feature or Children's Film Pixar Animation Studios Won
Toronto Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
Visual Effects Society Best Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture Pixar Animation Studios Won
Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture Pixar Animation Studios (Colette) Won
Effects in an Animated Motion Picture Pixar Animation Studios (Food) Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Best Animated Feature Pixar Animation Studios Won
World Soundtrack Academy Best Original Song Written for Film Michael Giacchino for "Le Festin" Nominated

Ratatouille currently holds the record for the greatest number of Oscar nominations for a computer animated feature film, breaking the previous record held by Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles at four nominations. However, Beauty and the Beast still holds the record for most Oscar nominations for any animated film, with six.

[edit] Similar films

IF Magazine described Ratatoing, a 2007 Brazilian computer graphics cartoon, as a "ripoff" of Ratatouille.[60] Marcus Aurelius Canônico of Folha de S. Paulo described Ratatoing as a derivative of Ratatouille. Canônico discussed whether lawsuits from Pixar would appear. The Brazilian Ministry of Culture posted Marcus Aurelius Canônico's article on its website.[61]

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Preceded by
Cars		 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
2007		 Succeeded by
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Preceded by
Happy Feet		 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film
2007		 Succeeded by
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Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Shrek (2001) · Spirited Away (2002) · Finding Nemo (2003) · The Incredibles (2004) · Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) · Happy Feet (2006) · Ratatouille (2007)
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Pixar Animation Studios
Feature films
Toy Story (1995) • A Bug's Life (1998) • Toy Story 2 (1999) • Monsters, Inc. (2001) • Finding Nemo (2003) • The Incredibles (2004) • Cars (2006) • Ratatouille (2007) • WALL-E (2008) • Up (2009) • Toy Story 3 (2010)  • newt (2011)  • The Bear and the Bow (2011)  • Cars 2 (2012)
Short films
Luxo Jr. (1986) • Red's Dream (1987) • Tin Toy (1988) • Knick Knack (1989) • Geri's Game (1997) • For the Birds (2000) • Mike's New Car (2002) • Boundin' (2003) • Jack-Jack Attack (2005) • One Man Band (2005) • Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) • Lifted (2006) • Your Friend the Rat (2007) • Presto (2008)
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