Why Haven’t You Seen Ratatouille?

I have seen Ratatouille. I thought it was really good as well. I did think cars was a little bit better. The only problem I had was that the story was a little rushed and disjoint in places.

It was a visual delight, and I felt hungrier after watching it.

I saw posters up for Ratatouille when I went to watch Tales From Earthsea and they made it look ugly and stupid. I don’t know if other people got that impression as well…

At Nippon2007, I asked the Head of Children’s TV (Halle Stanford) at the Jim Henson Company how she felt about the original Muppet characters now being owned by Disney. She said she’s a big fan of Brad Bird and wouldn’t mind if he directed the next Muppet Movie.

I confess I still haven’t seen Cars. It just seemed a little too… kiddy for me.

I didn’t even realise Disney owned the Muppets. We’re doomed

Saw Ratatouille tonight - Wollongong Uni puts on $5 movies on the big screen every Wednesday

Great water and other texture effects.

I kept thinking the story would take even sharper or darker twists than it did, but in the end it turned out OK. Maybe it would be more relaxing to watch it a second time.

USA voice acting still bugging me a bit - maybe I just don’t watch enough for it to become familiar.

Yay! One more person! The story is pretty straightforward but that didn’t really bother me. When I go to see a Pixar film I’m not really expecting anything too different. I think of it as good, old fashioned blockbuster entertainment.

And the voice acting bugged you? I’ve never had that problem with an American feature film: redubbed Japanese feature films, yes; American ones, no.

I suppose the lead actor’s accent stood out in drastic contrast to everyone else. Considering the character was “Italian”, it was all over the place.

Obviously Peter O’Toole towers over them all, though. It’s been 45 years since his starring role in Lawrence Of Arabia, but he’s not phoning it in just. He damn well wants that Oscar on his own merits.

OK, I agree it was odd that every other human had a European accent except for the main character. In all honesty, though, that bothered me for about 3 minutes before I just decided to go with it.

And more agreement on Peter O’Toole. He was marvellous. As was the idea of an English food critic pronouncing on a French restaurant