Tell them, my song.

My wonderful woman came home today with a freshly bought DVD of Pixar’s latest release Ratatouille, and later in the evening we made ourselves comfortable and watched it on my Powerbook.

Ratatouille is a beautiful animated movie in the best Disney-Pixar tradition, but without any of that embarrassing singing Disney used to torture us with. Of course, nothing bad happens to anybody in this flic, even the bad guy makes it to the end in one piece, we’ve got a nice happy ending (without it being sickening sweet), and it’s all just a lot of light-hearted fun. The only option for people who love to cook is to fall in love with this movie. Eventually, you will put a screen and a playback device in your kitchen just to watch it while you are preparing dinner.

I think it’s the best film Pixar have made so far, and that includes the pure technical aspects as well: Ratatouille really looks great, the render farms at Pixar are probably still steaming from the heavy work they had to do to create all those highly detailed pictures.

If you’re in the mood to be entertained by a simple fun story in a ‘beautiful world’ setting, watch Ratatouille. You’ll have a laugh and a good time. Don’t forget to put a copy next to your cook books.

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