This is a film about a rat who becomes a chef in Paris. But it's so much more than that. It's about what a great artist can be, where a great artist can come from, it's about food and how to savour it.

| May 18, 2020

It's a great programme for all the family.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2015

Ratatouille is a wonderful, wistful comedy, and a sparkling return to form for the computer animation studio Pixar after last year's lacklustre Cars.

| Aug 24, 2014

Kids are gonna gobble Ratatouille up; adults will relish its wit, and everyone will want to go out to eat after.

| Oct 18, 2008

A comedy that relates realistically to life, fashioned not with dozens of hilarious jokes but with due regard for proper storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Clever, certainly; ingenious, occasionally; enjoyable - hardly ever.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Purveys huge charm, enough to make you fall in love with the rat species and enough, with its array of screen dishes, to make America forgive France, re-dub freedom fries as French fries, and fall sobbing on the country's cordon bleu shoulders.

| Oct 12, 2007

Director Brad Bird has created a Pixar movie that's a joy to behold.

| Oct 12, 2007

I loved Ratatouille. I was even tempted to drop the odd bit of popcorn, like tipping the waiter after a particularly good meal.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Anton Ego, the restaurant critic of The Grim Eater, is one of the greatest performances of Peter O'Toole's career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2007

The animation is superb, the vocal work flawless, the script witty, the central conflict between family ties and the pursuit of excellence subtly handled.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 10, 2007

That feeling you have as you leave the cinema - that buzzing in the fingers and lightness in the heart - is called joy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 10, 2007

Occasionally inspired, but mostly trivial and pointless.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2007

It's always been Pixar's boast that it keeps its computers in their place -- at the service of the story -- and with Ratatouille, it has proved it yet again.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2007

A lot of animated movies have inspired sequels, notably Shrek, but Brad Bird's Ratatouille is the first one that made me positively desire one.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Ratatouille is a veritable feast for the eye and the ear. Don't miss it.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2007

In Ratatouille, the level of moment-by-moment craftsmanship is a wonder.

| Jul 16, 2007

I think Brad Bird is working on another level than most animated writer/directors.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2007

The original writer and director of Ratatouille, Jan Pinkava, was replaced in midproduction and, for all the exquisite detail, the movie is missing a dash of heart.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 30, 2007

This delicious tale of a rat who cooks is pure joy, a grand achievement -- one of the most beautiful animated pictures ever made.

| Jun 30, 2007