Pixar's "Ratatouille" Film [Merged Threads]

[2Epcot]

The film opens on June 29th. I just watched the trailer on the Disney site, it looks good, as I'd expect from Pixar. The site also has a 9 minute preview of the film as well introduced by director Brad Bird (The Incredibles). The first segment is a great sequence from the film, and makes me ready to go see it. Brad then introduces another short scene from the film.

[NotaGeek]

I am really excited to see this movie too! I found the Official Disney/Pixar site and checked out the trailer, it's great!

Here's the poster!

[DVC2004]

My oldest has been waiting for this since he saw a preview at the movies last summer. Looks good!

[TwinPrincesses]

We are excited to see it, too. We live in the Bay Area and my oldest daughter is crazy about animation. She is taking computer animation classes in High School. I have a friend whose husband works for Pixar. I didn't want to be a bother, I am sure people ask him all the time, but for my daughter's 15th birthday I asked if he could give her a "backstage tour" of Pixar and he agreed (in return we are doing some free babysitting for them and giving their kids rides on our horse this summer) We didn't tell her where she was going, and she freaked out when we got there.
It happened to be the day that Pixar finished doing Ratatouille and there was a big party. It was so much fun. We also got a tour of the whole place, which I guess is really rare and saw lots of stuff we can't talk about (they even made us sign a legally binding agreement not to reveal anything about movies in production). Now I am really anxious to see Ratatouille.

[SallyP]

I just watched the Teaser and the Trailer for this movie....looks like a lot of fun. Pixar 'hits' again. This summer is turning out to be a real movie summer.
I wonder if we will see Remy (Ratatouille:Rat-a-too-ee star Rat ) running around at the French Pavilion over at the World Showcase?
I think he'd be a huge success at Bistro de Paris

[Christine]

This looks fantastic! We cannot wait!

[GenieOfPA]

i can't wait to see it either. the summer camp i work at during the summer has already planned a day when they are renting out a whole theater for us to go see a private screening of the film... so excited, and i'm sure my campers will be too!

[tyandskyesmom]

Yesterday I received an e-mail from a local theatre for four free tickets for a sneek peek at Ratatouille at 7pm tonight!

So on my way home from work (which I had to leave 1 1/2 hours early from) i stopped by the theatre (they did not start honoring the coupon until 2pm) and picked mine up!

So we are getting to see it 16 days early!

The kids are so excited...who am I kidding, so are the adults!

[Lizzy]

Wow that is really cool! Don't forget to give us your opinion when you get back!

[tyandskyesmom]

Ok, it was really cute. Very funny! It would be worth the price of admission for sure...don't want to give anythign away but all of us were laughing a lot!

[mtown71]

I am looking forward to seeing this movie. It looks so cute!

[NJDad]

Sneak preview tomorrow night. If it was afternoon, we'd be there.

[ASweetLov]

My sister and I cant wait to see this film,it looks like a funny pixar movie

[alongfortheride]

We've got tickets for the 7:30 show tonight! Can't wait...we've heard nothing but great things about this movie!

[snifflesmcg]

I know, this is going to sound weird coming from somebody that often visits WDW BUT I'm not really into the "kiddie"movies of today. With that said, I actually can't wait to see this new one. I mentioned this on another thread but how cool would it be if they themed a restaurant after this movie?

[BronxTigger]

I know, this is going to sound weird coming from somebody that often visits WDW BUT I'm not really into the "kiddie"movies of today. With that said, I actually can't wait to see this new one. I mentioned this on another thread but how cool would it be if they themed a restaurant after this movie?

They did. It's called KFC, and it's located in Greenwich Village in NYC.

Really though, I would like to see this movie. It looks really cute. The movie's website is neat too. It reminds me of the London scene on the Peter Pan ride.

[snifflesmcg]

They did. It's called KFC, and it's located in Greenwich Village in NYC.

That's great! I love sarcasm.

[Eeyore3138]

Just got back!! I thought it was really good. The CGI is incredible. Paris looked beautiful and the character animation was awesome. I laughed a lot, along with the rest of the audience and I love that! Everyone clapped at the end. I will definitely own this movie!

[kmo84]

I got to see this tonight, too.

Very good movie. It was sweet and funny. I liked it a lot.

Just goes to show it was worth Disney's investment in Pixar for the storytelling talent alone.

This is one I will see again.

[Mufasa]

Ratatouille should be a great summer film and visually Pixar has done it again- absolutely beautiful the way it is presented with a real warmth and to me almost a hand-drawn quality to how things appear on screen and the shots of Paris immediately made me think of the trips I've taken there (and the details seemed very accurate as far as the location of most of the major city landmarks).

Oh and the food! Great job Pixar of capturing the look of appetizing CG food, without it looking fake like plastic, although that makes you look down at your overpriced bag of popcorn or nachos and wish you could be snacking on something else.

The cinematography is wonderful- composing a lot of interesting shots and angles and there's some fantastic pure animation and character design with Remy because he has find a way to communicate through pantomime with his human partner Linguini, but I will say Patton Oswalt also adds a nice quality to Remy with the voice work.

Speaking of mimes, you can find that typical Pixar trait of inserting nods back to other films, in this case to Brad Bird's other Pixar film "The Incredibles" with a quick cameo from the film (after all, how can you have a film set in Paris without a street mime?)

Of course there's a nice funny Pixar short before the film- the academy award nominated "Lifted" which is the first project directed by Gary Rydstrom (who has won academy awards for his work in sound design/editing on several films). Pretty much guaranteed to get the audience laughing and a great way to set things up for the main feature.

Also, I believe they will be showing a very quick teaser for Pixar's next project (directed by Finding Nemo director/writer Andrew Stanton) called WALL*E before Ratatouille. I am very excited for WALL*E and have been really anticipating this film for a while.