You might want to skip this one.
I’m just saying.
Yeah, I know it’s gotten glowing reviews, and it is true that the Pixar animation is spectacular. Truly. The sweeping views of Paris, the rats’ fur, the characters’ hair—all of it’s amazing, and hard to remember at times that it’s all computer generated.
But the story, well … it’s not great.
I couldn’t get over the story premise of a rat cooking gourmet food and using a human chef’s hair to manipulate him like a puppet. Rats in the kitchen? Bleh! Plus the movie isn’t very funny or charming like, say, Toy Story or Monsters, Inc. In fact, Ratatouille is oddly dark and flat—so much so that at times it was hard to remember it’s a kid’s movie.
I didn’t like The Incredibles, either, so maybe it’s just that I’m not wild about the new generation of Pixar films.
Ah, well. The popcorn was good.