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What do French think of Ratatouille movie? ›

Originally Answered: What do French people think about the Ratatouille movie (2006)? Most think it is a fine movie that plays with clichés about the French and French cuisine. Entertaining but nothing close to a hidden truth. there was increase in the sales of pet rats....

A rat named Remy 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 the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.

Remy dreams of becoming a great chef, despite being a rat in a definitely rodent-phobic profession. He moves to Paris to follow his dream, and with the help of hapless garbage boy Linguini he puts his culinary skills to the test in the kitchen but he has to stay in hiding at the same time, with hilarious consequences. Remy eventually gets the chance to prove his culinary abilities to a great food critic but is the food good? A Pixar animation.

Ratatouille / Film synopsis

A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant. A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant. A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant.

History of Ratatouille

This beloved summer stew first emerged as a solution for hunger, as it was invented by poor farmers back in 1700s Provençe. With so many bellies to fill, nothing could go to waste. Accordingly, the French peasants would cook their leftover vegetables for hours to create a hearty, coarse stew.

Sad: Remy Loses His Family

Emile and Remy eventually give themselves away while in the old lady's kitchen, and the old lady is not happy about it. She chases the rats with a shotgun and eventually, the chase causes the entire ceiling to cave in, revealing Remy's family and their home.

Disneyland employs a small army of cats who prowl the park at night to help control the park's mouse problem. And this one is from @FactHive: About 200 feral cats live in Disneyland to help control the rodent population in the park.

Ratatouille (/ˌrætəˈtuːi/ RAT-ə-TOO-ee) is a 2007 American animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

Remy (also known as Little Chef) is the protagonist of Disney•Pixar's 2007 animated feature film Ratatouille. He is a bluish-gray rat from Paris with a passion for food, and dreams of becoming a professional chef.

At its core, “Ratatouille” entertains one foundational question: Should we as a people choose ignorance or empathy? In the film, rats are stigmatized to only be troublemakers, and humans to only be killers. But, Remy the rat makes a different choice.

What is the moral lesson of Ratatouille? ›

Ratatouille is a brilliant movie which mainly gives us a lesson, “Anyone can cook”.

In Ratatouille (2007), Remi gags at the smell of Linguini's soup. Rats are physically unable to gag or vomit, which means that the soup was so atrocious, it broke the laws of nature.

Ratatouille (/ˌrætəˈtuːi/ RAT-ə-TOO-ee, French: [ʁatatuj]; Occitan: ratatolha [ʀataˈtuʎɔ]) is a French Provençal dish of stewed vegetables that originated in Nice and is sometimes referred to as ratatouille niçoise ( French: [niswaz]).

The modern recipe for Ratatouille originated in the Nice and Provencal regions of France. Its official French name is Ratatouille Niçoise.

While ratatouille has graced many a fine French table – and at least one fine film – it is a humble dish, invented by impoverished French farmers in the 18th century. Like many great dishes, it was meant to help people stretch their budget. Leftover vegetables were stewed for hours to give them new flavor and life.

According to Anthony Bourdain, "Ratatouille" is "quite simply the best food movie ever made" (via BroBible). He credited this to the fine details laced throughout the film, such as the pink burns on the cooks' arms, which highlighted what it's really like to work in the restaurant industry.

Set mostly in Paris, the plot follows a young rat Remy (Oswalt) who dreams of becoming a chef at Auguste Gusteau's (Garrett) restaurant and tries to achieve his goal by forming an unlikely alliance with the restaurant's garbage boy Alfredo Linguini (Romano).

The appreciation for the art of food goes beyond a simple shot showing green onions being thinly chopped and placed within a soup to be served. The amount of knowledge that is tastefully placed throughout shows the creator's attention to detail in whichever dish was being made.