- Starring
- Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt
- Directors
- Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava
- Rating
- G
- Genre
- Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Release date
- June 27, 2007
Remy is a rat who dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent danger, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, a young kitchen worker at the restaurant. Together, they create culinary masterpieces, impressing critics and customers alike.
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Sweet Deals
August 20, 2024 at 6:10 pm
This movie is old enough and popular enough that I’m assuming most viewers have already seen it. To my knowledge, Ratatouille is not woke.
I’ve heard rumors that the staff working at Pixar Studios had tried to include woke elements in the movie, but Disney’s censors had nixed the idea early on, which in this case was a good thing. Censors get a bad rap, but they exist for a reason. Just as a health inspector exists to inform restaurant owners that it’s probably not a good idea to have a rat in your kitchen preparing the food (unless he’s conscientious enough to wash his paws beforehand, keeps all his fur carefully secured under a chef’s toque and uses the bathroom away from the food storage areas), censors once existed to inform movie producers that certain elements may not be appropriate in a movie intended for all audiences.
(I’ll spare you the remark on which elements Disney considers censor-worthy these days).
Geminey3
September 6, 2024 at 3:43 pm
My kid was obsessed with this movie and watched it multiple times a day for 4 months, still watches it on occasion now, so I think I’m qualified to make an honest review 😅
Not woke, appropriate for kids. The ONLY thing I guess that people may not like is the whole shotgun scene in the beginning where the old lady is shooting at the rats in her kitchen. Could be considered violent I guess, but I don’t see a problem with it.
twirlinmerlin
September 8, 2024 at 2:26 pm
If a foodie rat pulling the hair of a dumbass kid sounds woke then believe me, you need help. This is a classic born before this septic ideology. Well worth a watch, funny and enjoyable. It is one of those uplifting, feel good movies to enjoy with the family.
colorofmoney
October 18, 2024 at 10:19 am
Rats are vile creatures who should be exterminated some people don’t deserve to do certain things but this film would tell you otherwise
Crow
October 20, 2024 at 4:55 am
No elements of Woke ideology in the film.
Anyone suggesting otherwise is REALLY stretching things.
P.S. Also a greatly under-rated film in general, and family friendly as well.
CuteSquidward
October 24, 2024 at 6:02 pm
Collette complains to Linguini about struggling as a woman because of “stupid old men”. To be fair I haven’t seen this movie in over a decade but hearing her say that in a youtube clip made me wonder if this is woker than I remember.
Sweet Deals
October 24, 2024 at 11:31 pm
It’s only “woke” if the person who achieved success didn’t earn it.
Before DEI was widespread, there was a time when women were discouraged from entering or denied advancement in certain male-dominated professions. Collette is telling Linguini that she had to work extra hard to make it as far as she did, and she has no intention of stepping aside to make way for a nepotism hire who merely got lucky. And she demonstrates that she did earn her spot in the kitchen by being a tough teacher, telling Linguini he not only needs to cook food well, but also to run the kitchen efficiently if he wants to be a master chef.
In some movies, I feel the “training montage” scene is merely a formality; the main character is required to fail a certain number of times before the narrative fairy magically allows him to succeed just to pretend that the victory didn’t come cheaply. Remy is naturally gifted, but he definitely had to overcome many obstacles to achieve his victories, especially because he is a rat trying to operate in a human world.
CuteSquidward
November 1, 2024 at 8:14 pm
You do realize that Ratatouille is set in France (a very progressive country) during the late 2000s right? That’s not even 20 years ago. It’s not set over a hundred years ago nor is it set in the Middle East. So Collette’s remarks that are suggesting the idea that any significant number of people in France in relatively contemporary times have objections to women working in commercial kitchens just seems bizarrely anachronistic (to be honest I’m not sure if there was ever any objection to begin with, a cursory search online seems to indicate that they were female celebrity chefs in Victorian times, who were often encouraged by their Restaurateur husbands ). Also the “stupid old men” still gave her a job and promoted her, if they really were as bad as her fury at them is suggesting she wouldn’t have been hired to become a top chef to begin with.
Collette comes across an ideologically possessed leftist with severe jealously issues and I wouldn’t be surprised if the way she was written was an early foreshadowing of Disney’s woke/feminist mentality that they’re now infamous for.