Sarangel
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My family went to a pre-screening of Ratatouille tonight. The theatre (all 90 seats of it) was full.
I knew from the 9 minute trailer that I had a good chance of liking it. And, overall, I did. I caught myself once or twice looking at posters or background trying to make it out and reminding myself, "this isn't real, they had to draw (or render if one must) everything." The story pretty much held itself together, I cared about all the principals - Remy, Colette, Linguini, even Skinner (tho in his case I cared that he get his comeuppence). Most of the visuals are very good and we all laughed more than once. I really liked Remy and Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego (especially the irony of a British food critic in Paris). Our 4 year old sat all the way through it, even tho there were a couple of scary parts for her.
So, the downside is that every once in a while there were parts of the movie that I felt were more to show off the animation than to tell the story, mostly in the beginning. I also felt that there were moments that the story forgot where it was going: was this a love story, a poor kid makes good story, or a you can do anything you set your mind to kind of story. But in both cases they were just moments.
I'm ready to go again and to buy the special edition DVD.
I knew from the 9 minute trailer that I had a good chance of liking it. And, overall, I did. I caught myself once or twice looking at posters or background trying to make it out and reminding myself, "this isn't real, they had to draw (or render if one must) everything." The story pretty much held itself together, I cared about all the principals - Remy, Colette, Linguini, even Skinner (tho in his case I cared that he get his comeuppence). Most of the visuals are very good and we all laughed more than once. I really liked Remy and Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego (especially the irony of a British food critic in Paris). Our 4 year old sat all the way through it, even tho there were a couple of scary parts for her.
So, the downside is that every once in a while there were parts of the movie that I felt were more to show off the animation than to tell the story, mostly in the beginning. I also felt that there were moments that the story forgot where it was going: was this a love story, a poor kid makes good story, or a you can do anything you set your mind to kind of story. But in both cases they were just moments.
I'm ready to go again and to buy the special edition DVD.
