Post by bryanstone on Jul 31, 2007 12:40:13 GMT -5
I couldn't decide if this should go in 'Comics and Cartooning' or 'Miscellaneous'...being that we're all here studying cartoons of all sorts I can't stress enough how important Ratatouille is.
Without question it's one of the best animated films ever made. It's a bold claim, I know! Here's a few short reviews from various sources:
"Ratatouille" is an anomaly of sorts for the director and screenwriter. Begun by Oscar winner Jan Pinkava, the story of a french mouse with an exceptionally sophisticated palate just didn't sound like the sort of project that Brad Bird would be drawn to. But this director is also an exceptionally sophisticated screenwriter, and the resulting film is the best recent example of a true modern fairy tale. Light, elegant, sweet, gentle--but with the fillips of danger and the threat of death that all the best fairy tales have. I walked out of the theatre into hard, hot Burbank thinking of the old New Yorker writer E.B. White.
Jennifer Lerew - Dreamworks Animation (from her blog)
RATATOUILLE triumphed at the domestic box office this weekend with $47.2 million, great news for those–like me– who think this is an instant classic and the best movie of the year thus far. In fact, days after seeing it, it’s my favorite movie since ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND in that I keep telling all my friends and family about to see it RIGHT AWAY.
Heidi McDonald - pwbeat
I was talking to my good friend Victor Haboush yesterday and he had an endorsement for Ratatouille that I just had to share. He says, and I quote, “It’s the best animated film since Pinocchio.” That’s a pretty bold statement but Vic is somebody whose taste I trust. And that’s not just because he’s worked on classics like Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians. Or because he worked on Brad Bird’s first feature The Iron Giant (and which he doesn’t share the same enthusiasm for as he does Bird’s latest). It’s because Vic knows what he’s talking about and because he’s always frank about what he thinks of things. If Vic says it’s good, then it probably is.
Amid - Cartoon Brew
It's playing at the nugget!
Without question it's one of the best animated films ever made. It's a bold claim, I know! Here's a few short reviews from various sources:
"Ratatouille" is an anomaly of sorts for the director and screenwriter. Begun by Oscar winner Jan Pinkava, the story of a french mouse with an exceptionally sophisticated palate just didn't sound like the sort of project that Brad Bird would be drawn to. But this director is also an exceptionally sophisticated screenwriter, and the resulting film is the best recent example of a true modern fairy tale. Light, elegant, sweet, gentle--but with the fillips of danger and the threat of death that all the best fairy tales have. I walked out of the theatre into hard, hot Burbank thinking of the old New Yorker writer E.B. White.
Jennifer Lerew - Dreamworks Animation (from her blog)
RATATOUILLE triumphed at the domestic box office this weekend with $47.2 million, great news for those–like me– who think this is an instant classic and the best movie of the year thus far. In fact, days after seeing it, it’s my favorite movie since ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND in that I keep telling all my friends and family about to see it RIGHT AWAY.
Heidi McDonald - pwbeat
I was talking to my good friend Victor Haboush yesterday and he had an endorsement for Ratatouille that I just had to share. He says, and I quote, “It’s the best animated film since Pinocchio.” That’s a pretty bold statement but Vic is somebody whose taste I trust. And that’s not just because he’s worked on classics like Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians. Or because he worked on Brad Bird’s first feature The Iron Giant (and which he doesn’t share the same enthusiasm for as he does Bird’s latest). It’s because Vic knows what he’s talking about and because he’s always frank about what he thinks of things. If Vic says it’s good, then it probably is.
Amid - Cartoon Brew
It's playing at the nugget!
