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tealinI'm not hungry; for dinner I had Ratatouille!
Otherwise known as ...
Okay, so, Linguini? Totally Mort. He has been from the first trailer, but everything about him in the movie itself was still Mort, and he falls comfortably into the Befuddled Pratchett Male Lead category besides. Gangly, ginger, adolescent, in over his head, in love with a strong-willed woman, trying to do something his own way when he's clearly not ready for it ... yeah. Mort.
The cook with the thumb: Simon Pegg. Come on, is it not so?
I liked how the romance helped and did not hinder the plot, while still remaining relatively background, and how the interested parties stayed more or less in character about it (again rather Pratchetty), though I was not entirely convinced that Colette would fall for Linguini so ... abruptly. Ah well, the rest of it worked for me, which is more than I can say about most movie romances.
A rat with big ideas lugging the book that inspired him around the sewers ... hmmm. (unfortunately that's about where the similarities ended. There was no mention of a green wobbly bit, though there was a stupid-looking kid leading a sort of con...)
I loved loved loved loved loved all the human designs, but the rats just looked ... so ... Pixar. They would have looked more at home in Monsters Inc than Ratatouille with its sleek and sophisticated pushed and geometrical human designs ... couldn't they have done more with rat shapes? (I say this as the person desperately seeking new and different input into designing rodents.)
I remember hearing all about how amazingly the food was rendered, but I have to say that while it was good, it wasn't mind-blowingly awesome. The cheese didn't have enough sheen, the onions and orange wedges weren't translucent enough, the creamy liquids didn't cling to the spoon the way they should have ... of course, I've probably spent more time in the kitchen being a lackey to a foodie than most of the audience so maybe I'm just picky. But still. Food, people! Sheesh, Pixar, can't you do anything right? ;)
Colette's last name is Tatou. Hehe.
I liked how the kitchen staff were established - they were all characters but they didn't dwell on them any longer than was necessary for the plot or for gags later on. Too often people seem to come up with an amusing secondary cast and get distracted by trying to make the audience as familiar with them as the creators are ... you don't need that for the chorus, but it's nice to have a hint that they do have personalities of their own that would be well-developed if you got to know them yourself outside of the movie. For the minimal role they play, just the hint is enough.
Way to stick it to the prepackaged foods industry. WOO! Hahaaaa.
It got a bit slow in the middle before the drama kicked in again ... I know Brad Bird loves his family dynamics but was all that Clan stuff really necessary? I mean ... really?
Chef Skinner looks like Gollum. Hehe.
Animation=100%. 2D on the credits then proceeded to steal the show.
Otherwise known as ...
Okay, so, Linguini? Totally Mort. He has been from the first trailer, but everything about him in the movie itself was still Mort, and he falls comfortably into the Befuddled Pratchett Male Lead category besides. Gangly, ginger, adolescent, in over his head, in love with a strong-willed woman, trying to do something his own way when he's clearly not ready for it ... yeah. Mort.
The cook with the thumb: Simon Pegg. Come on, is it not so?
I liked how the romance helped and did not hinder the plot, while still remaining relatively background, and how the interested parties stayed more or less in character about it (again rather Pratchetty), though I was not entirely convinced that Colette would fall for Linguini so ... abruptly. Ah well, the rest of it worked for me, which is more than I can say about most movie romances.
A rat with big ideas lugging the book that inspired him around the sewers ... hmmm. (unfortunately that's about where the similarities ended. There was no mention of a green wobbly bit, though there was a stupid-looking kid leading a sort of con...)
I loved loved loved loved loved all the human designs, but the rats just looked ... so ... Pixar. They would have looked more at home in Monsters Inc than Ratatouille with its sleek and sophisticated pushed and geometrical human designs ... couldn't they have done more with rat shapes? (I say this as the person desperately seeking new and different input into designing rodents.)
I remember hearing all about how amazingly the food was rendered, but I have to say that while it was good, it wasn't mind-blowingly awesome. The cheese didn't have enough sheen, the onions and orange wedges weren't translucent enough, the creamy liquids didn't cling to the spoon the way they should have ... of course, I've probably spent more time in the kitchen being a lackey to a foodie than most of the audience so maybe I'm just picky. But still. Food, people! Sheesh, Pixar, can't you do anything right? ;)
Colette's last name is Tatou. Hehe.
I liked how the kitchen staff were established - they were all characters but they didn't dwell on them any longer than was necessary for the plot or for gags later on. Too often people seem to come up with an amusing secondary cast and get distracted by trying to make the audience as familiar with them as the creators are ... you don't need that for the chorus, but it's nice to have a hint that they do have personalities of their own that would be well-developed if you got to know them yourself outside of the movie. For the minimal role they play, just the hint is enough.
Way to stick it to the prepackaged foods industry. WOO! Hahaaaa.
It got a bit slow in the middle before the drama kicked in again ... I know Brad Bird loves his family dynamics but was all that Clan stuff really necessary? I mean ... really?
Chef Skinner looks like Gollum. Hehe.
Animation=100%. 2D on the credits then proceeded to steal the show.
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Date: 2007-07-06 08:30 am (UTC)NOW IT MAKES SENSE!
A rat with big ideas lugging the book that inspired him around the sewers
Y'know that scene where the family ran away with the boat and stuff? I was thinking, "OMG!MAURICE!!!" Oi have a sneaking suspicion that there are Pratchett fans there...
Tatou
That was random.
The cook with the thumb: Simon Pegg. Come on, is it not so?
And he needs more screen time.
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Date: 2007-07-06 07:05 pm (UTC)And I like your Pratchett analogy! It makes sense. :)
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Date: 2007-07-06 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-06 10:02 pm (UTC)This one is one of the funniest, it had me laughing hard at certain times, specially when the rat was trying to teach Linguini. XD
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Date: 2007-07-06 11:36 pm (UTC)And this is just to say. If you're at all familiar with Doctor Who, David Tennant was the voice of Dangerous Beans on the Radio 4 production~
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Date: 2007-07-07 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-07 01:02 am (UTC)The plot was great, although I did feel like they didn't show enough of Colette getting to tolerate, then like Mortguini before bam! she's in love. But that sephulcral food critic? Genuis!
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Date: 2007-07-07 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-07 09:03 am (UTC)The animation was spot on and even though the rats had realistic designs, they were pushed enough in the animation that they didn't look too realistic like say, the characters in happy feet. I loved the timing, especially when Linguini had the rat in his shirt to cook for the first time and he was quickly shifting from pose to pose. You couldn't get timing like that with motion capture.
I noticed in the credits of the film, they had a little blurb that read something like this: "100% real animation, no motion capture here” I thought that was brilliant. Ok, that's my two cents.
P.S. Brad Bird, if you're reading this..please let me study under you!!
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Date: 2007-07-13 04:52 pm (UTC)You're awfully skinny for someone who likes food. Luls.