Every Rat Has Its Day - movie review on Ratatouille
Every Rat Has Its Day
---movie review from Pan
Rats have never seemed welcome to mankind. Most women would scream at the sight of any of this creature. Look what words and slang we would readily employ to describe the rodent: Little, dirty, nasty, disgusting creature; a rat is an unpleasant, disloyal person who is ready to betray and deceive; something's going
wrong when you smell a rat. The list can never end. I don't really make squeal sounds when bumping into one or two of them, but I admit that their grey, tousled hair and wriggling tail unfailingly make my flesh crawl.
But obviously Hollywood, or to be more specific, Disney, doesn't seem to feel
the same way. It seems to have a deep-seated penchant for this furry creature that everybody detests. The trilogy "Stuart Little" is reported to have raked in
at the box office, and not long ago they had another animation that starred rats, Flushed Away. People have the best laugh of their lifetime watching Mouse Hunt 1 and 2. Though I would never have enough of watching Tom and Jerry, the classic stories about the world-famous cat and mouse, none of these three movie serieses have favorably impressed me. The image of the rat in Stuart Little is nothing lovely in the first place and the acting of that muscular actress is awful;
Flushed Away tells such an ill-organized, incoherent story that I even can't sit it out; and Mouse Hunt is funny but no more than slapstick.
Disney is, no doubt, more capable than that. And this time it's with Pixar, my favorite animation studio. Set me straight if I am wrong, but most works from
Pixar are incredibly well done: A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, Monsters. Inc,
etc. The new rat animation certainly is a real eye-opener in any respect.
Can you imagine a rat dreaming of becoming a chef? This is what they are going to come up with this time. Pardon me if this makes you feel sick, but refrain
from losing your dinner here yet.
Born with a sensitive nose and a refined palate for delicacies, and having been inspired by the motto of a famous Paris chef "Anyone Can Cook", our hero rat has a dream of becoming a real chef. Of course his family wouldn't go happily along with his mad notion, but he is not dounted. By a quirk of fate he enters the territory of that elite restaurant owned by that famous Paris chef and by working with a hapless garbage boy in the kitchen, he actually comes through with flying colors. Everybody in town is attracted by his cooking and even the pickiest gourmet, the same critic who once takes the restaurant down a peg by writing critically, is swept off his feet.
It all sounds like a cock-and-bull story but silly as it may sound, you watch
it and it'll change your views. Pixar is definitely getting the hang of computer-making animations, with the rats looking so adorable and their moves so real.
Well, you can say it's a little bit exaggerated, but precisely to a level that
you would gladly accept. You burst into laughter for a few times, and the music is freshing. Actually it's all about giving your imagination more free rein.
Why not? Anyone can cook - and anyone can imagine.
Ohh, if I have to play balance - nothing's flawless, right - I would say the only fly in the ointment is the title of the movie, Ratatouille, is a real jawbreaker. It's the name of a dish, tasty and memory-stirring in the movie, but obviously not much so as the name of the movie.
For English lovers, the exotic English with a French flavor is a nice surprise
. Go watch it yourself and see if you agree.
Panpanpan.
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