RATATOUILLE Film Review - 19/8/07

Seen a very short trailer for this a long while back and of course with the Pixar name attached to it - it was a must see (Unlike "Cars" Bleettttccccchhhhhh!!!) It's a rarity for an animated film to draw a tear from me (Or maybe I'm just soft?) but very near the end (In a scene stolen from "Jaws" no less) I felt a pricking in my right eye as this film hit the spot. A strange mixture of story and telling we have the tale of a rat called Remy who yearns for a different life - than - Well a rat's life actually. Being drawn from the garbage dump he wants to cook in the top Paris restaurant Gusteau's - And if you can put up with the stereotypical Frenchman "whizz de liddle Beret eet zee honion" accents you'll find a couple of hours amusement just breezes by. The lush visuals and the nuances of realism and textures get more astonishing with each Pixar production made. For a children's film it is quite dark in places but adults will get a real kick out of it!