Ratatouille

Everyone can cook

Saturday night the usual movie gang watched Ratatouille, a Disney and Pixar movie.

The beginning part was in a countryside. You saw the main character Remy the rat immediately. You saw his behavior was quite unusual compared to his brother and family. Remy had an excellent sense of food. He could detect disguised food poison, he could distinguish ingredients, he could appreciate food, and most importantly, he liked to cook. He accidentally saw Chef Custeau's TV show when he sneaked into an old lady's kitchen. Since then, he was fascinated by Chef Custeau and his ideas of cooking.

Chef Custeau owned a restaurant, Custeau's, in Paris. He always said "everyone can cook". Custeau's was a five star restaurant. However, Mr. Critic Anton Ego did not like to give Custeau a cozy life. In a visit, Ego downgraded Custeau's star from 5 to 3. You saw from the TV that Custeau could not bear this fact and died. In the meantime, Remy and his family were discovered by the old lady. The old lady disliked rats very much. She was so determined to kill all rats. All the rats evacuated and went to the sewer system. In the evacuate, Remy was floating with Custeau's book "everyone can cook". However, he was separated from his family.

Remy arrived Paris. He was so desperate. Then, you saw Chef Custeau's image appeared from his book. Custeau cheered Remy up and encouraged him to go up to see the world. Coincidentally, Remy saw Custeau's kitchen. He was thrilled to see the kitchen. All the cooking, all the activities, his eyes became huge due to the happiness.

Then, Remy saw another main character - Linguini. He was a trash boy. He did not have any cooking talent. He accidentally messed up the soup. Remy was so worried that he decided to stay at the kitchen to correct the mess. Somehow Remy was caught. During the quarrel between Remy and the Kitchen chef, the soup was accidentally brought to the table where a lady critic sit. The lady apparently liked the soup very much. The kitchen Chef could not let Linguini go. He kept Linguini and wanted him to dispose of Remy.

Linguini was desperate. He sit on one side of La Seine. He discovered Remy's talents and brought him home. You saw how Remy and Linguini discovered a funny techniques which allowed Remy to control Linguini's hands and to guide him how to cook.

With Remy, Linguini became more and more famous. All Custeau's guests liked Linguini's dishes. In the meantime, Remy discovered a big secret - Linguini was Custeau's son. With this fact, the evil kitchen chef should not inherit Custeau's but Linguini should. Of course, the kitchen chef tried hard to hide the secret. His effort went in vain. Everyone knew this fact. Linguini owned the kitchen now.

Then, the scene went to a dark, coffin looking room. You saw Anton Ego was there. By all means, Anton Ego did not like Custeau's revival. He decided to visit Custeau's. Everybody in Custeau's feared.

Remy reunited with his family. Remy taught his brother how to appreciate food. His brother periodically brought some friends to Custeau's to "appreciate food" since then. Remy needed to steal food from Custeau's storage room for the food appreciation. Chef Custeau's image appeared few times to give Remy caution. But Remy did not listen.

The night before the important night, Linguini caught Remy's stealing. Linguini was pissed and decided to split with Remy. Remy was hurt. But Remy could not let Linguini down. Around the dinner time, Remy went back to Custeau's. Everyone in the kitchen saw Remy. The rule of thumb in the kitchen was no rats. Of course, everyone wanted to kill Remy. Linguini stood up to protect Remy. In addition, he revealed the secret - it was Remy who cooked those fantastic dishes.

Everyone in the kitchen disgusted the fact. They left. Colette, the female chef, returned. Ego and other guests were outside. Three people were not enough. What to do? Then you saw Remy's dad summoned all family. Tons of rats. All of them followed Remy's orders in food preparation. Linguini, Remy, and Colette teamed up and served "Ratatouille" to Ego. The Ratotouille dish reminded Ego of his childhood. Ego was moved. Ego would like to talk to the Chef. Of course Colette would not allow this. The consensus was that Ego needed to wait til all the guests left. Ego saw Remy. Ego was shocked. But, Ego did not disgust the fact. Instead, he published a very genuine critic for Custeau's - "Chef Custeau said everyone could cook… I think what he really meant was that an excellent cook could come from anywhere…"

Custeau's was forced to stop due to rats. Did Linguini and Colette stop restaurant business? No, they opened another restaurant where all Remy's family resided in the loft area of the restaurant. Now, Remy could enjoy Paris from the loft. You saw Ego afterwards became Remy's fan. What was the name for this new place? It was called "La Ratatouille".

Afterthought:

I liked the movie. Not just for the scenes. I also liked the way how director Brad Bird presented all crews after the movie. Nice ideas. Millions of nice ideas and imaginations there. Ratatouille is absolutely an appreciable movie