Very entertaining Pixar movie, just like most of the others. There were some great scenes. We loved the lightning scene on the roof.

I've long been of two minds about Disney animated films -- they're often overwritten, sappy, and don't come even close to the fairy tales on which they claim to be based -- but this one is indeed very enjoyable, as shown by the Academy Award it won as best of the year. The story line is original, too: Remy is a French country boy with the makings of a great chef, but there's one big problem. He's a rat. Having found himself in Paris at the restaurant of his late hero, Chef Gusteau, Remy meets up with Linguini, the restaurant's new scullery lad, who has zero cooking talent. But by combining the rat's genius in the kitchen with the young man's human-ness (and his ability to be puppet-controlled by having his hair judiciously yanked beneath his toque), they set Paris on its ear and attract the attention of the city's greatest food critic, Anton Ego (the voice of Peter O'Toole). The characterizations are terrific, the dialogue is fun (especially Lou Romano as Linguini), and the humor is generally subtle. And, like nearly all successful "kid's films," it also has a lot for adults; my six-year-old granddaughter and I both enjoyed it.

"Ratatouille" is a masterpiece, plain and simple. Not even the presence of the mouth-foaming half-wit Janeane Garofalo can spoil it, and that's saying something. But the addition of Blu-Ray to the home experience of "Ratatouille" can only enhance it, and does. I give this disc my highest recommendation.

"Ratatouille" is simply (in my opinion) the best Disney/Pixar movie ever made. The idea that anyone (no matter who or what they are) can do whatever they put their mind to is very inspiring. The characters are bright, funny, and full of personality. This movie made me want to cook and I look at rodents very differently :)

I paid for and never received this product. I have sent several e-mails to the seller with no response. I would NOT recommend purchasing anything from this guy!

Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50
Running time: 1:50:32
Movie size: 28,60 GB
Disc size: 48,31 GB
Average Video Bit Rate: 23.42 Mbps
LPCM 5.1 6912Kbps 24-bit English
DD AC3 5.1-EX 640Kbps English / French / Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH / French / Spanish
Number of chapters: 32

#Cine-Explore (In-movie experience)
#Fine Food & Film Feature with director Brad Bird and chef Thomas Keller
#Deleted Scenes
#Gusteau's Gourmet Video Game
#New Animated Short with Remy & Emile: Your Friend The Rat
#Animated Short: Lifted

My 4 year old son loves this movie, and he watches this almost everyday from the moment I received it. It's blu-ray feature makes it really enjoyable to watch.

I really enjoyed this movie and being a computer generated movie, it was even better watching it on Bluray. The picture quality is awesome, you can almost feel the texture of the perfectly rendered surfaces & objects in the movie. The character artists & voice actors have captured the personalities of each character so perfectly in this movie. The story is very entertaining & not overly geared towards children so adults will enjoy this movie too. Any fan of animated movies will definitely want this in their collection. Get it on Bluray, it's definitely worth it.

I WAS VERY HAPPY I ORDERED THIS PRODUCT. IT WAS ENTERTAINING FOR ADULTS AS WELL AS THE YOUNGER CROWD. THANX TO PIXAR AGAIN..

Ratatouille: This is a very entertaining movie that you will want to see over and over again.

AWESOME movie!! i got it for my friend for her bday. she loved it, its so cute wen your in the mood for a cartoon.

Charming movie, once you get over the fact that there's a rat in the kitchen. Having an interest in food, also helps.

Possibly the 2007 film that is closest to perfection is Pixar's "Ratatouille", an animated comedy that seems to focus on the story of a rat named Remy who has a sense of smell and a great talent for the culinary arts, and who becomes a secret chef at a French restaurant, managing to be a hit to the gourmets who don't know their chef is a rodent.

But something magical happens about half way through: The focus switches more to the story of the scullery kitchen lad and his fellow kitchen superiors (including the dominating Colette, voiced by Janeane Garofalo) and we realize that the human animal was really the film's main subject all along. Its visual look is like great French paintings and its animation state-of-the-art, thanks to directors Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava, all set off by a wonderful music score that breathes life, love and Paris in every bar. Amazingly, the film's poetic setting contrasting the Parisian slums (the world of the rats) with the high-class restaurant for connoisseurs reminds one of the best of Ernst Lubitsch (like the romantic setting of the garbage scow in his 1932 "Trouble in Paradise"), but it is Lubitsch as if some Preston Sturges slapstick had wandered into it.

This is a marvelous, life-affirming masterpiece, and one of the two films of 2007 that uses food to express a deep and profound love of life.

This is a cute DVD, but I wouldn't recommend it for children under 5 years old due to some of it content.

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It's kind of hard to describe why I loved this movie; I shouldn't be surprised at all to find that I appreciated a Pixar or Brad Bird movie so much, but considering that it stars one of the more disgusting and vile creatures on the planet, I was surprised at just how enjoyable and touching the movie is. What's impressive is that considering it's basically about a rat romping around a French gourmet restaurant's kitchen, it in no way skips acknowledging that rats are scavengers on humanity but in some way it makes that a plus for the movie (it doesn't hurt that the head of the rat colony has the voice of authority in Brian Dennehy). How the hell Pixar manages to make a rat appealing is beyond me, but they do it here (and Patton Oswalt's voice performance certainly helps as well). Definitely worth watching, especially for a subplot involving a top food critic that actually brought a tear to my eye in it's moment of truth.

"Ratatouille" is a delicious musical treat for the whole family to enjoy. From Disney, the company famous for its mouse,comes a loveable rat Remy who wants to cook up a feast. It's an inspiring fairy tale about family, love, and the power of faith. From Michael Giacchino's bistro-worthy soundtrack to the tasty intrigues of the story, "Ratatouille" is a cinematic meal.

In "Ratatouille",Remy the rat (expertly voiced by comedian Patton Oswalt) befriends the garbage boy Linguini. As in Cyrano de Bergerac, Linguini gets the credit for Remy's amazing meals. Linguini might also be the love child of Gousteau,the chef who inspires Remy in visions. Linguini himself is smitten with the no-nonsense chef Colette (a bittersweet Jeanne Garofalo) The devious Skinner (former Bilbo Ian Holm) plans to turn Gousteau's magical recipes into instant frozen meals (like "Tooth Pickin' Chicken" and "Haggis Wraps") There's also a health inspector who bears an uncanny resemblance to Walt Disney himself. Finally,the evil cadaverous critic Anton Ego (voiced by the equally cadaverous Peter O'Toole) comes to Gousteau's with a bone to pick.

"Ratatouille" is a delicious mix of comedy,in-jokes,and visual wonders. It's an ode to the joys of cooking and the beauty of Paris,the City of Light. It has a moral without being ponderously moralistic. As Anton Ego learns his lesson from a delicious plate of ratatouille,so does this movie please the palate. Bon appetit!

It starts with a mouse colony that steals trash. Remy, the main character, doesn't like it and decides he wants to be a chef. He goes to a world famous restaurant, and secretly starts to train the garbage boy to cook. But what no one else one in the restaurant knows is its really Remy making the recipes. It's very cute and good for the whole family. One you'll want to watch over and over again!

This is my favorite Pixar animated movie and I give it 4.5 stars. I have watched this movie countless times, and I never get tired of it! Maybe it's because the main attraction is *food* and I love food. =)

Remy is a rat, but he's not your ordinary rat. He has dreams bigger than slumming it in the gutters with his family, making do with scraps from the garbage bin. His dreams encompass becoming a chef, and creating dishes that tantalize the taste buds. He occupies his time watching a cooking show by famous Parisian chef Gusteau and learning the trade in the kitchen of an old cottage. Unfortunately, being a rat, he is run off the property by the owner in a very funny scene (an old lady in hair curlers wielding a shotgun.LOL). This sets in motion his journey to realize his dream of becoming a chef.

Okay, you're probably wondering what is so great about a story in which the main character is a rat?! I thought the same thing, and never did go see this movie when it was out in theatres. Finally, on a whim I bought the DVD to watch and was pleasantly surprised by the humor and touching warmth of the story about, yes a rat!

There were so many moments of humorous scenes, I think my favorite is Remy getting caught in the act of fixing a soup Linguini messed up, with Linguini standing there in astonishment as he watches a rat cooking.

At its heart, it is about reaching for your dreams despite the odds and obstacles set in your path. Despite the nay-sayers who say, "You can't do this!", which Remy encountered a few times from his family especially his father. Determined, Remy ignored the "You can'ts" and the odds against him, and befriends a young man named Linguini and they partner up to create yummy dishes. Although there are human characters in the movie, and one the klutzy boy Linguini, plays a main role, Remy is the star of the show.

You can't go wrong with a Pixar movie, and despite my initial misgivings of a movie about a rat, I'm glad I caved in and bought it. Like all the animated movies by Pixar I've seen, Ratatouille is wonderful and touching, an excellent movie.

...then "Ratatouille" is a good choice. It's a great story with a lot to offer kids and adults. But, the reason for my comment is that apparently computer animation has reached a point where it can render the stuff of nightmares.

The rats have likable personalities and make surprisingly sympathetic characters, but each and every hair is rendered. When there is rat pack on the screen, you can see each and every hair, to the point where it taps into conscious and subconscious feelings towards rodents (personally, I like 'em.)

The juxtaposition of fine food with the image of 1001 rats scurrying across a kitchen makes this animated feature worth the investment of 90 minutes.

Just don't try the trick of cooking mushrooms over a rooftop chimney in a thunderstorm!

1080p pic is great, however this movie could not keep my full attention nor my wife and our 3 year old daughter. I wanted to like this since it was my first blu-ray movie, but I did not. I resold it the following day.

There should never be blasting shot guns in a G rated movie. That constitutes violence to me. My 3.5 year old daughter got very upset and we did not even get to the wonderful parts because the gun scene appears within the first 15 minutes of the film.

A young rat named Remy is shunned by his family and other rats for his mature palate. While they, like all rats, eat garbage, he tries to blend flavors to enhance his food. When he, then, becomes unfortunately separated from the other rats he must learn to fend for himself for the first time and winds up in the most unlikely of situations. He teams up with Linguini, an awkward young man who is an aspiring chef. Together they are able to bring Remy's culinary visions to the (human) public. The unconventional duo must fight through adversity that is more than just what would happen if people found out that not only is there a rat in the kitchen, but that rat just prepared their dinner.

I liked this movie. It wasn't my favorite Pixar movie, but I certainly enjoyed the creativity. And it looked great, as the Pixar movies all do. The story was a little weak on its own, and I feel that I enjoyed it a little more on a personal level than others might. If you don't enjoy being in the kitchen, you might miss some of the charm, I feel, was present in this movie.

Many, many companies have created movies that focused on relationships between animals, people, and inanimate objects as key plot lines. Most of these movies come up short as the interactions between humans and non-humans often seem forced or fake; examples include "All Dogs go to Heaven", "Howard the Duck", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World". But Pixar has mastered this art, with classics such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and now Ratatouille. Released in 2007, this movie is by far the best animated movie of 2007, if not one of the best movies overall. It features an original cast of characters that include a cooking rat, his clumsy human apprentice, the latter's lady of interest, a conniving head chef, an imposing restaurant reviewer, the rat's lackadasical brother, and their selfish, hard-headed father. The setting is Paris and the surrounding French countryside, and the musical score fits the French setting perfectly. The storyline itself is amazing and original; I cannot remember any other movie with even a slight similarity in plot. And the animation is perfect; to see the rats move, the ripples in a bowl of soup, the flutter of leaves; all of it looks so real. Best of all is the comedy, again a trademark of all Disney classics. All in all, one of the best movies of 2007.

This is a great movie, very good story line and excellent on Blu-Ray. The video looks great on the Blu-Ray player.

The French have a food thing going.
A certain rat becomes a chef by virtue of his nose.
He convinces a human to be his proxy chef
and he launches a career in 5 star cooking.
Talking mice go back a ways to:Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos
It might be said that since the black plague which was spread by fleas
on rats in the middle ages, rats have had
a very bad reputation. From the experimental lab
where rats are a basic, one finds that rats are
only as dirty as their keepers allow them to be?
The gene profile of rats is very close to that of humans,
so that most drugs are given to them first
and humans only if the drug is safe there ( doesn't kill the rats).
So a movie about an intelligent rat is funny and
food may never be the same again?

This is a highly entertaining children's film. A bit scary in the beginning for super young kids. Got to say though struggled with the whole RAT thing. Never quite could wrap my head around that.

I have to say that this film really surprised me. What a great movie. It's got a great cast of characters that you can love, laugh at and in some cases hate. It's so well paced and written that you forget one of the lead characters happens to be a rat! It's inventive, interesting, funny, heartfelt and unique. Not since Nemo have I enjoyed an animated film so much that I immediately wanted to own it. If you are an animated film fan who loves a good story try this out. I think fans of Ice Age, and Finding Nemo and the Incredibles will really enjoy this film. It's just THAT good.

I had reservations about Pixar's ability to pull this one off.
All of Pixar's movies have had non human stars in them.
I approached this film with an open mind and I came away absolutely stunned at how good it was.
Another Pixar triumph!!!
The acting, script, animation, EVERYTHING is just so perfect.
Is Pixar run by some alien force that just "KNOWS" how to make the perfect movie???
Pixar has yet to make one dud of a movie.
Well.........I really didn't care for A Bugs Life that much. But that was just my taste.
Am I the only one or did Ratatouille make you hungry for Italian food too???
Another masterpiece from the company that can do (almost) no wrong.
Recommended!!!

This DVD is truly a hit! You can watch it with the whole family or with your friends! Its entertainment for every age and everyone! The graphics are truly amazing and the characters are very well developed with voice actors that suit every character! This one cant be missed! A must buy!

This is an excellent movie! I would recommend everyone to have this in their Disney DVD collection. There are so many funny parts in the movie. The animation was simply dazzling; every scene looks so real and detailed. As for the story line, you won't be disappointed. Ratatouille is one of the year's best movies for families. The animation is wonderful and the story is rich and interesting... This is one movie along with a couple others that my children ask to watch each day.

Pixar does it again! With nods to its parent company (with his pencil-thin mustache, Skinner is both French and a little bit "Aladdin's"Jafar) and Tim Burton (Anton Ego has the macabre angles of a Burton animation), Pixar explodes the animation envelope with this family-friendly film. Where the characters are still "cartoons," the scenery looks like film -- although a small blurb in the credits state this is "REAL animation -- no rotoscoping!" Paris has never looked lovelier, and the FOOD -- the title dish made me hungry, and the last film that made my mouth water was "Big Night!" (Search for the recipe online using keywords "Thomas Keller" and "ratatouille.") The artwork is first-rate (wish I could make my hair as shiny and beautiful as Colette's!), and the script can be enjoyed by all ages, even though it never "talks down." (When was the last time you heard the word "elephantine" in a movie??) "Salut!" to the voice talents, too -- especially Janeane Garafalo and Peter O'Toole. This tasty 'toon is a dish to savor!

There are but a few movies that are made for children which grasp within them the childlike wonder, a hope for goodness to be rewarded and the joy when it happens, and showcase them to the audience.

There are even fewer among them that bring the latent child present somewhere in the hidden recesses of the adult person front and center, and be unashamed to be seen in all it's vulnerable glory.

Ratatouille, ladies and gentlemen is the rare gem that does it breezingly. The geniuses at Pixar achieve this impossible task with sublime panache, that too, with a creature that almost all of us revile: the sewer rat.

The premise of the story is simple. Remy, a rat living in Paris, prefers to raid kitchens instead of scrounging the gutters for food. He is also blessed with the talent for cooking exquisite meals. He find inspiration in the philosophy of late Chef Gusteau: a culinary legend: that "Anyone can cook". One night, while cooking at Chef Gusteau's restaurant, he is discovered by a Linguini, a cleaning boy, in a moment when his guard is down. Remy and Linguini, become a culinary duo with Remy guiding Linguini in creating delights for the refined palate and the restaurant soars to acclaim.

With such an unlikely artist, would the patrons advocate their habitat? This forms the premise of a inspiring story about breaking one's confines and stereotypes, and risking losing everything for what one truly believes in, that's delightfully woven by director Brad Bird and Pixar.

I was eagerly awaiting the release of this dvd and it is worth every penny of the 20 dollars that it is being sold for here. I applaud and bow to the talent and artistry of everyone involved in creating this reaffirming story and picturizing it.

This movie - made by the same guy who created The Incredibles - truly raises bar for state-of-the-art computer generated animation feature. Never mind the story; yes a rat (later rats!) cooking in the kitchen is not that appetizing. But the character animations, combined with great voice acting, great rendering of Paris, makes this move a Disney classic. The quality of imagery is just outstanding!! Our two year old toddler son enjoys it so much, when he gets up in the morning he asks for "Rata! Rata!"

Highly recommended!

The animation in this film is incredible, it's so vivid, especially in hi-def. The film's story is cute and uplifting, without being totally predictable. Remy is fine protagonist, he is likeable, albeit not exactly cuddly, but you root for him the entire way. I really didnt like the boy that play's his human friend, if you can call him that. I was surprised at how much I dislike him and even at the end, I was not pleased to see things had turned out well for him, odd for a movie of this kind. One odd thing, that really bothered me was how very few of these supposed "French" characters, bothered with actually having French accents. The hero is a French rat, with a sort of generic American accent, it seemed so bizarre. Overall, a very good movie with fantastic animation, not as good as the perfect, Incredible's, but close.