Why Ratatouille is Pixar's Magnum Opus

Schaff cooks up a Ratatouille video!

00:00 Intro
04:47 Part 1: A Rainy Disposition
10:12 Part 2: Paris
15:04 Part 3: A Boy and His Rat (and also bees)
21:58 Part 4: If You Can't Take the Heat...
29:38 Part 5: A Different Kind of Rat
34:42 Part 6: Indie Pacing
44:15 Part 7: ego
50:41 Part 8: Letting Go of ego
56:55 Part 9: My Compliments to the Chef
1:02:24 Outtake

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[pacificgrim]

As a kid I tried to recreate that one scene where Remy tasted a strawberry and cheese and colors were spiraling in the background, I did that by shoving a big strawberry and a chunk of cheese down my mouth only to end up choking and vomiting

[Mathee]

I would say that Skinner is important to the movie for one reason: he's the antithesis to Remy. Throughout the movie, humans are assosciated with creating, while rats are assosciated with stealing; Remy is a rat that wants to create, Skinner is a human that does nothing but leech off of others' talent and success. Honestly, my biggest problem is that he and Remy didn't have a bigger confrontation when Skinner captured him, but you can't really have that when you've established that rats can't talk to humans in this world. I think it was important for the movie to have Skinner capture Remy to really show the contrast between their characters, and how Skinner is so much of a rat, by the movie's standard, that he is now going to leech off of an actual rat.

[jaciel.]

Something I noticed when Colette waits at the stop light and turn to the shop with Gusteau's book on display "Anyone can cook", she also looks at herself in the reflection of the window and remembers how to talented she is to be cooking in the male dominated kitchen. 

This is when she when she truly recognizes Remy for what he is, not a rat but a cook. An artist.

[slashine]

I really like the way linguini became a waiter that skates at the end. His entire character is that he's not good at anything other than being a rat's puppet, but when the scene happened it showed that even him have something that only he can do.

[kimuires]

I love the Ratatouille scene so much
Ratatouille was established as a “peasants dish”. Something small and insignificant. Yet after Remy let’s go of his ego, he decides it’s the best dish to make for the acclaimed and cold critic. He doesn’t make something big and bold and difficult but instead makes a dish with his heart in it.
Everyone looks at it with skepticism, believing it was foolish to do so, because they believe Ego is above such a lowly meal. Skinner, Colette, and Ego all thought it was crazy.
“Ratatouille? But it’s a peasants dish”
“Ratatouille? He must be joking!”
But when Ego takes a bite, he’s transported back.
He forgets his wealth, his status, and his ego and just remembers a time where he loved food. Where his passion for food began.
Where *he* began.
And he finds a love for food again. A love of praising the good instead of tearing everyone down. Color returns to his face, as does his smile he lost long ago.
It’s truly poetic and I adore it so much.

[rintrantran]

Imagine how insecure linguini has to be to say " Its not much " TO A RAT

[pineappleprincess]

16:36 To add onto this, even if Remy DID want to break the language barrier, he can't. Because it was shown earlier in the movie, when the old lady was trying to shoot him and Emile, he was clearly yelling to Emile, but to a human like the old lady, his yelling was just a bunch of squeaks

[elecricwaffle]

An excellent little detail is how Remy washes his hands in the soup scene and when all rats take over the kitchen there's a scene of rats getting steam cleaned. Being critters in the kitchen the animators chose to still show importance of cleanliness

[atotalfiasco]

I interpreted the pen drop as him having no words to describe what exactly he's feeling about what he just ate. A man who made his entire career from using his words as weapons is now left with nothing to say. He has no words for how he's feeling, it's a feeling he can't possibly describe in the way that he can describe the criticism he became so egotistical over.

[hermione]

It makes sense when Remi asks Gusteau: "why would Linguini be filed with your will?", and Gusteau responds with "this used to be my office" because Gusteau is simply a figment of Remi's imagination, so of COURSE he wouldn't be able to give him new information, as he just tells Remi things he already knows! This is reiterated at the end of the movie when Remi is stuck in the rat cage after being captured by Skinner, and Remi says "you just tell me things I already know, I know who I am!"

[Whitechai]

Another thing I love about ratatouille is that it never got a sequel. It has an amazing conclusion that does not need to be continued. The story closed off and that's it. No continuation, and that's satisfying.

[shinjiikari]

The fact that the bee movie came out the same year as ratatouille is crazy, the animation in ratatouille is so genuinely timeless whereas the bee movie just screams late 2000s movie

[Chammezl]

You forgot mention after Anton Ego eats Remy's dish you see color on his face. Every scene we see him in he's pale and cold. But after eating the ratatouille he looks alive like all the color came back from whence he was a child.

[austinpowers]

an underrated element is that Linguine knocks the rat in the water and instead of just saying fck it whatever he actually dives into the water to get him showing how much of a good person Linguine actually is

[JustA-Person]

I really like how Colette softens up on Linguini after he takes uses and validates her advice. She’s probably used to men not taking her advice because she’s a woman in a very male dominated area and it was clearly very meaningful to her that Linguini did.

[alexjomain]

What also proved to me that Ego definitely changed his mind about Gusto's vision : he always expects and demands complex cuisine from the restaurants he judges, but Remy managed to amaze him with one of the most simple dish possible, a ratatouille. A dish anyone can cook

[chamakchanek]

Fun fact about the latin spanish dub version of the movie, Remi's voice and his father are son and father in the real life.

[willowdove]

Rebutting “You can’t change nature” with “Change IS nature. The part we can influence, ” was the most powerful statement I’ve ever seen a movie meaningfully make

[andginisin]

Ego always struck me as a very lonely man. To see him find connection at the end of the film, knowing he’s a regular, seeing him take life in…

His arc is so poignant.

[kiw]

i put this on and did my final french project of the semester worth a lot of my grade, i then received an A*. i can now confirm hearing praises about a little french rat who can cook for an hour does indeed get you a good grade.