Ratatouille

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Patton Oswalt as Remy, a young blue rat who is interested in cooking. Director Brad Bird chose Oswalt after hearing his food-related comedy routine.
• Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini, the illegitimate son of the deceased famous chef Auguste Gusteau and the restaurant’s hapless garbage boy who befriends Remy.
• Ian Holm as Skinner, the cruel, rat-hating new owner of Gusteau’s, as well as its head chef and former sous chef before Gusteau’s death. Skinner’s behavior, diminutive size, and body language are loosely based on Louis de Funès. The character was named after the psychologist B. F. Skinner.
• Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy’s father and leader of the rat clan.
• Peter Sohn as Émile, Remy’s older brother
• Peter O’Toole as Anton Ego, a cynical and easily displeased restaurant critic, inspired by Louis Jouvet.
• Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, the recently deceased founder of his respective restaurant of the same name, inspired by real-life chef Bernard Loiseau, who committed suicide after his restaurant, La Côte d’Or, was rumored to be losing a star. La Côte d’Or was one of the restaurants visited by Brad Bird and others in France. Gusteau was also inspired by chef Paul Bocuse for the character traits.
• Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou, Gusteau’s rôtisseur, and Linguini’s love interest, inspired by French chef Hélène Darroze.
• Will Arnett as Horst, Skinner’s German sous chef who changes his backstory every time he is asked.
• Julius Callahan as Lalo, Gusteau’s Haitian saucier and poissonnier
  • Callahan also voices François, the advertising executive handling the marketing of Skinner’s microwaveable food under Gusteau’s name
• James Remar as Larousse, Gusteau’s garde manger
• John Ratzenberger as Mustafa, Gusteau’s chef de salle
• Teddy Newton as Talon Labarthe, Skinner’s lawyer
• Tony Fucile as Patrick Pompidou, Gusteau’s pâtissier
  • Fucile also voices Nadar Lessard, a health inspector employed by Skinner. In the UK version, Lessard is voiced by Jamie Oliver.
• Jake Steinfeld as Git, a former lab rat and member of Django’s colony
• Brad Bird as Ambrister Minion, Ego’s butler
• Stéphane Roux as TV narrator

Storyline:

A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely, and certainly unwanted, visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

About Movie:

Ratatouille is an American animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Brad Bird, the film is notable for being the eighth feature from Pixar and features a screenplay co-written by Bird and Jim Capobianco, based on an original idea by Jan Pinkava.

The story is set in Paris and follows a young rat named Remy, voiced by Patton Oswalt, who dreams of becoming a chef at the renowned restaurant of his idol, Auguste Gusteau (voiced by Brad Garrett). Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Alfredo Linguini (voiced by Lou Romano), a garbage boy at the restaurant. Together, they navigate the culinary world, with Remy secretly controlling Linguini’s cooking from beneath his chef’s hat.

Development for Ratatouille began in 2000, with Pinkava initially conceptualizing the story. After his departure from Pixar due to concerns about story development, Bird was brought in to direct and refine the narrative. The animation team consulted chefs from both France and the United States to accurately depict food preparation and presentation. Michael Giacchino composed the film’s score, which complements its Parisian setting.

Ratatouille premiered on June 22, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and was released in the United States on June 29. The film received critical acclaim for its screenplay, animation quality, humor, and voice performances. It grossed approximately $623 million worldwide, making it one of the highest-grossing films of 2007 and the second highest-grossing animated film of that year behind Shrek the Third.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and received nominations for several other categories, including Best Original Screenplay. It has been recognized as one of the greatest animated films of all time and was voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures of the 21st century in a 2016 BBC poll.

Overall, Ratatouille is celebrated not only for its charming story and character development but also for its exploration of themes such as passion, creativity, and overcoming societal expectations. The film’s tagline “Anyone can cook” encapsulates its central message about talent and ambition transcending conventional boundaries.

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