Let me first give my thanks to the poster makers for this movie : I can’t imagine how else I would have pronounced it right. Here’s it again for the uninformed ones : *Rat-a-too-ee.
Brad Bird hits the jackpot again , after giving us The Incredible he comes up with this great movie.
The movie is about this rat ( yeah you read it right , can’t even imagine a movie made in India about rats)
Remy who feels differently than his peers , as in he likes to smell the food, taste the food, he likes to experiment with different kinds of foods which is a very rare phenomenon amongst the rat colony as all they want is garbage. Then as fate would have it he lands up in the restaurant owned by his now deceased mentor Gusteau who acts as his conscience for the rest of the movie .
Then there is* Linguini* who lands up at the same restaurant looking for a garbage collector’s job and the present head chef hires him outta pity. On seeing Linguini screwing up the soup Remy decides to correct his blunder and which leads to the tag-team between the man and the mice to make some of the best food in paris.
Then there are other characters in the movie , the grim-eater food critic Anton Ego who was responsible of the death of Gusteau, and the hyper active *lady chef *who sticks with linguini and teaches him.
The movie acts on many different levels , there are various sub-plots in the movie , the one about rats V/S human is also very well treated.The Animation in the movie is brilliant as with their earlier movies, sometimes it doesn’t even feel like we are watching a animated film so as to say.
The expressions on each and ever characters faces are amazing real and funny.
There are various comic scenes in the movie along with a few violent ones ( refer to the shotgun sequence in the beginning) , the scene with Anton Ego at the climax is one of my favorites along with the first time confession of the remy to linguini that he can understand him.
The movie is supported by stellar cast voices especially Patton Oswalt ( Remy), Peter O’ Toole (Anton Ego) and Ian Holm ( skinner). All the other cast voices are wonderful as well.
In all one of the most original , well-written, fantastically animated movies to come in years.
*Essential Viewing