Ratatouille, 4.5 stars
Watched Pixar’s newest CGI-cartoon, Ratatouille, and left the theatre smiling, after yet another triumph of a film.
The Pixar recipe is applied with precision: the visuals are breathtaking, the plot is positive but not overtly saccharine, and the proceedings are strewn with enough intertextual references to keep adult viewers busy as well (as if the on-screen rodential antics were not enough).
The culinary images are sumptuous, the Paris cityscapes accurate, the action scenes wild - a good reminder why Brad Bird’s previous film (the Incredibles for those puzzled at home) was on top of Pixar’s recent output. Ratatouille comes very close to that, even though the theme and style are completely different.
Heavily recommended, with an added bonus of Lifted, as the obligatory short film before the main feature.
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