Ratatouille (film)

Ratatouille r t t u i French pronunciationatatuj is a 2007 American computeranimated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar, and was cowritten and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. The title refers to a French dish, ratatouille, which is served at the end of the film, and is also a play on words about the species of the main character. The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as Remy, an anthropomorphic rat who is interested in cooking Lou Romano as Linguini, a young garbage boy who befriends Remy Ian Holm as Skinner, the head chef of Auguste Gusteaus restaurant Janeane Garofalo as Colette, a rtisseur at Gusteaus restaurant Peter OToole as Anton Ego, a restaurant critic Brian Dennehy as Django, Remys father and leader of his clan Peter Sohn as Emile, Remys older brother and Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently deceased chef. The plot follows Remy, who dreams of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an alliance with a Parisian restaurants garbage boy.

Remy is an idealistic and ambitious young rat, gifted with highly developed senses of taste and smell. Inspired by his idol, the recently deceased chef Auguste Gusteau, Remy dreams of becoming a cook himself. When an old woman sees his clan, they are forced to abandon their home Remy is separated from them as a result of the womans gunshots. He ends up in the sewers of Paris and eventually finds himself at a skylight overlooking the kitchen of Gusteaus restaurant.As Remy watches, a young man named Alfredo Linguini, son of Gusteaus former Italian girlfriend Renata Linguini, is hired as a garbage boy by Skinner, the restaurants devious current owner and Gusteaus former souschef. When Linguini spills a pot of soup and attempts to recreate it with disastrous results, Remy falls into the kitchen and uses other ingredients to complement the soup to perfection. Linguini catches Remy and is confronted by Skinner. As Skinner lectures Linguini, the soup is accidentally served and proves to be a success. Colette Tatou, the staffs only female chef, convinces Skinner to retain Linguini, who is assumed to be the soups creator. After Skinner catches Remy in the act of escaping, he orders Linguini to take the rat far away and kill it. Linguini then discovers Remys intelligence and passion for food, so he keeps him. ........

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