Synopsis
Marcelle Toing, owner of the best restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, must go on missions to steal ingredients from human restaurants to keep his meals the best.
Ratatoing
2007 Directed by Michelle Gabriel
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小鼠大厨
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A dense political thriller filled with thought-provoking social commentary and an explicit critique of capitalism and monopolistic business practices.
It was unironically better than Cars 2.
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lots to love here! :)
-the exact same suiting up montage (all in front of a blank white background) shown three times in a 44-minute long movie
-everyone is shrill and yelling with voices like nails on chalkboards
-"YES DADDY I LOVE CHEDDAR"
-cat walk hind leg, look like frog
-all the lady rats are sexy -- thick thighs, ample tiddies. boy rats? they are shapeless blobs. thought "there's no way a single woman was involved in this production," only to discover afterwards that it is female-directed. suddenly, it's empowering! -
for my dear friend mia's birthday, we decided to have a little mini film fest featuring her favorite films. we gave her options of films we knew she loves: kill bill vol 1., the lobster, opening night, down with love, gone girl. i even managed to get a screener for nomadland and keep it a secret so that we could surprise her with the option to watch it. then, taking advantage of birthday law (which i mistakenly called 'prima nocta,' mistakenly invoking a long conversation about the ancient practice of prima nocta) she called an audible and decided to make us watch Ratatoing.
honestly? had a blast. cannot recommend enough you watch this with friends. can't get over an intricately detailed shoe appearing in a suit-up montage and then never again. you'd be shocked to learn that a few corners seem to have been cut in the production of Ratatoing.
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this movie is awesome. it is 44 minutes long and i especially like the first 20 minutes where you get to hear what every single person in the restaurant would like to order.
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Keeping on trend with my interest in cartoon rip-offs and low budget world animation, Ratatoing was an important missing piece. The animation is stiff, but mostly ignorable. The dialogue insane. The breaks in sentences and repeated sentiments. I was totally stunned and amazed during the opening scene with the patrons ordering food and complimenting the chef. It was a purely alien experience that made me feel like I was made of plastic and I was now in the land of the plastic rats that are saying weird shit to me. Honestly, the rest of the movie isn't that bad except the bow legged cat. That is so not what cats, even cartoon cats, are shaped like.
Filled with shapes an sounds, so many shapes and sounds.
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Ratatoing. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Marcel Toing’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Ratatoing truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Greg’s existential catchphrase “PRECISELY,” which itself is…
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