Anton Ego is one of my favorite Pixar antagonists and I like how he is "defeated". Phenomenal storytelling with that one bite and I love his subsequent character development and review.
I like that, instead of going the typical way of showing an uptight critic get humiliated, they showed the better side of critics by allowing him to be changed by a positive experience. And instead of being stuck in his ways, he changed his tune and wrote a great review. Having once been a critic myself (albeit in a different medium), I was pleased about that.
"I don't like food... I LOVE it! If I don't love it, I don't swallow!" By the end of the movie, I will always love that Anton Ego is so much happier. They animated him less thin and his cheeks are much rounder. He's been enjoying himself and loving the food when he visits Colette, Linguini and Remy at their new restaurant. RIP Peter O'Toole for portraying Anton Ego
It wasn't *technically* nepotism with Linguini inheriting the restaurant since legally it only made him the owner. Had Skinner been up front about the will from the start he possibly could have talked Linguini into allowing him to stay on as the chef/manager while Linguini got an appropriate cut of the profit as the owner... no need to be chef or cook if he didn't want to, which he didn't. It just meant Skinner having to sacrifice some of the income he'd become accustomed to having (which is why he hid the truth). By subverting the will for so long it just allowed the charade to go on resulting in everyone fully believing Linguini was truly a genius chef rather than someone who just got lucky. Result: Skinner comes off as a greedy schemer (which he was) who was justifiably fired, with everyone demanding Linguini take his place as the new head chef since they've become convinced he's a genius chef just like his father.
one insane detail is that Linguini's a clumsy walker but with the roller skates he takes that to his full advantage as he can use the momentum of the skates to keep his balance, I remember watching this movie everyday when I was a kid and recently found out about this detail it's amazing, also another detail that the ghost imagination of Gusteau doesn't appear again after Remy gets saved by his father and brother as now he knows that his true guidance and comfort is his family
My favorite aspect of this movie is how, at the start, we see the interplay of flavors represented as shapes and colors; initially they're vague, undefined, but as the movie progresses they become more specific, more nuanced. Until, at the very end, taste invokes not just shapes and colors, but full-on memories. That is the true power of art, and, as usual, Pixar captures it perfectly.
16:30 This scene is based on a real pest control shop in Paris called Aurouze. The distinctive window display is like an emblem of the shop. The rats are real but preserved taxidermy style and have been there almost a hundred years.
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That moment at 26:40 is exactly why I love to cook. It's a bite of food that can instantly transport someone to a better time, when life was simpler. It's seeing that look on someone's face who has just gone through the shittiest day of the past decade of their life. They sit down at the table, tired, emotionally drained, and feeling defeated. But when they take that first bite of the meal you've prepared for them, all of that shit just falls away, and for the next 20 minutes or so, life is good. That's what food can do for the soul.
This movie was phenomenal. Growing up I loved to cook. So much so that I pursued it as a career. It is movies like these (among other factors) that have the potential of establishing passions within our youth.
Well... Rats in Paris is a huge problem. First : if someone see a rat in a restaurant it can be immediately closed for a while to sanitize the place Second : if a rat come at a place where they can find food, they come back with friends and settle in Third : a Rat that is seen while doing business (instead when it's closed and safe for him) that means there is not just one Four : Rat can easily spread decease. In a big restaurant with fancy and expensive products is REALLY a huge problem
As in relation to the disease thing, rats are the ones responsible for the Black (Bubonic) Plague that killed SO MANY people in Europe. For the French, and any other European nation, to have such a disdained hatred for rats is no mystery. I certainly wouldn’t want something like the Black Plague to happen again, so yeah I’d also treat a rat with great hostile prejudice. lol
@@Jaden_The_Celestial Rats are actually quite clean animals on their own.. its their parasites that causes the problems.. as it was with the black plague as well being the fleas which were the infection spreaders
14:42 The whole point of Skinner's motives are the fact that he purposefully wanted Linguini to fail. Not realizing that Remy was ready to meet the challenge. 20:35 Very well put right there. That is exactly one big thing about why Skinner is mad and loathes Linguini. Skinner has technically lived and worked in the shadow of Gusteau for a possibly a long time. Of course, when things started going downhill after he passed away, he turned his attention to the things that would guarantee to help him make money because it's debatable that he stopped caring about Gusteau's even though he's the one managing and running it. He's more angry and disappointed at Linguini because from his perspective, he's probably thinking, "who the hell is this idiot that just showed up out of nowhere?" Eventually discovering that Linguini is Gusteau's son by blood is terrifying for him because all the work that he's built up and done will be given away to someone he feels doesn't deserve it. It doesn't work out for him since Remy helps Linguini become a big name as time goes on. RIP to the great Sir Ian Holm (Bilbo Baggins from the original LOTR trilogy) for providing the voice acting to Skinner.
Skinner also could've not been a little shit and tried to hide information to illegally cut out Linguini from his inheritance, probably could've just kept his position as head chef, Linguini hardly seemed very ambitious and would've likely been perfectly happy to sit at home and get his share of profits as the owner.
One of the best little details in the film is that the old lady in the beginning is Ego's mom (you can tell because it's the same house). Remy learned to cook from her cookbooks, so when he cooked the ratatouille it was literally the recipe Ego ate as a kid.
It is possible to die from a broken heart, known as broken heart syndrome. Rare case, especially for death. But that is also something that makes sense too!
While it’s technically a Disney-Pixar animation, I still consider it the last independent Pixar Animation Studio film before the Mouse bought the Emeryville company. The dish that is presented to Anton Ego was actually created by celebrity chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry restaurant for the film. It is a version of his Confit byaldi, which, in turn, was inspired by French chef Michel Guérard’s recipe by the same name, a refinement of traditional ratatouille. Michel Guérard is one of the founders of nouvelle cuisine. The only other studio that pays this attention to detail in food, is Studio Ghibli, Japan’s premier animation studio.
I don't watch animated films but randomly I went to see this in the theater when it came out, literally just by myself. I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it. What a delightful film.
One of my all time favorite comedies, and one of many amazing Pixar films. Great reaction as always! Though how you don't just die laughing when Linguini is blindfolded in his own kitchen and Remy is cooking using the hair the first time is beyond me. I am on the floor laughing every single time.
I love to cook. I really like screwing around with flavors and textures and trying out new stuff - and my family is suitably (that is, unknowingly) spoiled because of it. My favorite parts of this movie is how they showed a kitchen functioning - all the ingredients, the storage, all the stations equipped with gas burners used to prep different parts of the dishes, and all the beautiful copper cookware. The artform of plating food (some would consider it pretentious, not me) and how a restaurant kitchen works is just perfectly conveyed in this movie as well. I really, really like this movie because it treats the food and restaurant as almost another character in itself.
I just love your reviews. You are so sweet. I love that you can be happy and grosed out at the same time. You are just so adorable and yet still have strong values. I love how you can see the good in things that others might not. I was not blown away by this movie when I first saw it but seeing your review gave me a new perspective on this film. I just love your channel. Keep being who you are and making the world just a little bit brighter.
I saw somewhere too that theres a hidden aspect that people tend to miss but makes it that much more heart warming. Anton ego the moment he takes a bite of the ratatouille he is transported back to his child hood and his mother making it for him. But if you re watch that scene and pay close attention to the details of the house behind the young anton and then his mother you will notice this house looks strikingly familiar. If you go back to the beginning, where remi and his family live in the old ladys ceiling, when remi comes down into her house, we see him watching the chef on tv, teaching himself to read. Ect. However it was pointed out that many things in the old ladies house look alike the furniture and layout of the house from anton's childhood home... the reason he knew how to make ratatouille like antons mom is because he watched HER make it over the years. The person said its easy to see that once u pay close attention that the old lady had to be anton's mother.
This is one of those movies you can't predict, and before you know it you're falling it love with it, and when it ends you just want to watch it again -- the same is true about your reaction! Loved watching how much Remy grew on you and how by the end of the movie you were singing a different tune completely -- 5 stars for this reaction vid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
What's funny about Remy almost gets sick when he smells Linguini's soup, is that rats are incapable of vomiting, so imaigine of someone being so bad at cooking that it makes a rat throw up (or almost in this case).
Like WALL-E, I feel like this is one of those Pixar films that gets better as you get older. As a kid you enjoy all the animal antics and slapstick comedy, but watching it as an adult shows what a beautifully mature and nuanced story this is, with all the rich themes, interesting character development and outright gorgeous animation, not to mention Michael Giacchino's romantic, energetic and delightful score. Over the last few years it's gone from being a fairly middling Pixar film in my opinion to one of their all-time greats, and (alongside The Incredibles) cemented Brad Bird as perhaps the best writer-director to work for Pixar
Rats carried the bubonic plague that wiped out millions in Europe. I agree they're cute pets but just because New York has them doesn't mean the rest of us have to like them 😂
Rats are actually extremely clean with their grooming! I believe the bubonic plague was on the fleas, not the rats themselves. Theres a lot of misconceptions about rats
@@Sammy90990 If the rats could not keep the fleas off themselves, then it really doesn't matter how well-groomed they are, because they were still carrying the plague everywhere they went.
Also fun fact the DNA from Gusteau hat was indeed Rodent hair which means that the father gave Linguine his hair traits to be controlled by another rat, it also explains all the “Anyone can cook” books and motto that Gusteau constantly said….
Some believe the reason for the Ego flashback was that Remy was living in his mothers house(the old lady with the shotgun) and that would explain why he specfically had a memory of his childhood. Cause he knows his mothers cooking
2 interesting curiosities about the film is that the menus served in the restaurant are priceless, which is common in restaurants of that level. Additionally, Gusteau is based on Bernard Loiseau, a French chef who committed suicide because of the rumors of the loss of one of his stars.
As someone with pet rats, I absolutely love this movie. And, in my personal experience, I could see this sorta happening. Some of my rats have been far more accurate about knowing when the food in the oven was ready than the timer. They'd come out and start sniffing when it was done. If they did it before the timer dinged, I'd find it a bit burnt. If they didn't do it and the timer dinged, I'd find it still needed to bake a bit more.
If you look at reactions of top chefs to this movie you see they all give it 10/10...this is how well made this movie is regarding the restaurant setting as well. Also cooking is the ultimate art form. The complete dish is pretty to the eye..great to smell..taste great and if you do it right feels amazing as well..no other form of art can accomplish that (applying to all our senses). Also the reaction of the critic at the end to the Ratatouille is something we all can relate..everyone of the planet has a dish that takes him in memory to his childhood..and for a tiny serene moment you are young again and happy..and that is a beautiful thing
23:59 - I've seen the movie myself before, so I know what was actually said, but that edit makes it look like Remy's imaginary Gusteau was saying "But you don't know who you are, you never did."
You ask what we took away from this movie. For me, it's the transporting, transformative quality of the best art, be it fine culinary arts, a painting, or a symphony. (Or even a movie!) The film illustrates how art is essential to our inner humanity and ties us together in a global community. Artists create to connect across cultures and across time. Furthermore, the drive to create and invent is unstoppable. Yes, I know these are grandiose, big ol' thoughts, so the casting of a little, tiny rat is brilliant. If the deaf can compose (Beethoven) and the blind can paint (later Matisse), why can't a rat be a master chef?
i love cooking, started off as a prep cook in my Junior year of Highschool and my senior year i got to work on fish station, pasta station and sauté station. almost 4 years of cooking but i’m still learning as a young chef and still aspiring!
Skinner did tarnish the reputation of Gustaue's with his frozen food, when it used to be the best resturant in Paris, the cremé de la cremé of Haute Cusuine, with the Chef's motto "Anyone can Cook" and he made the best food in Paris, if not France (and to the frenshmen best in the world). Skinner's product placement of everyday non-french food clashes greatly with what Gustaue stood for. He didn't care about the food, he cared about money.
Anton Ego, played by Peter O’Toole, is an homage to a very book by Marcel Proust. In “A la recherche des tomps perdu, “Remembererance of Things Past”. Proust was a brillant author and literary critic. In the book, a character suddenly encounters a basket of medelines, French coffee cakes, and a vivid memory of his childhood. A smell of them returns him to when he was young and his mother would bake the cakes and a rememberance of everything about his childhood. This is a classic in French literature. I also worked in a kitchen in Paris and the set-up is old-school French cooking.
On some of the Disney Cruise ships, they have a restaurany named Remy, and base it off Ratatoullie. They even do the exact soup from the movie! But they freeze then flash fry it in breading, so you get one perfect bite of the soup. Highly recommended.
I got to see every Pixar film from Finding Nemo through to Toy Story 3 in the cinemas, and to this day I'm so glad I was able to experience their golden age like that
This movie accurately depicts how a fine dining professional kitchen operates. Chef Thomas Keller is actually a consultant for this movie to make sure the kitchen dynamic is captured accurately.
One of my favorite Pixar movies growing up (tied with WALL·E of course) the food in this movie always looked so good to the point where I haven’t went through this whole movie without getting hungry. Thats how good this movie is to me.
I once saw an interview with a famous chef here in Sweden, Tore Wretman. At age 17 he managed to get an apprenticeship at the prestigious Maxim's in Paris. He said in the much later interview that back then, 1933, they had such a massive rat infestation problem at Maxim's, that they had a terrier in the kitchen, killing rats. Cats didn't suffice, the rats were too big.
I like to think that when Gusto told Remmy he never had to pretend and touched him on the shoulder, that he was actually telling Remmy that he was really Gusto and that’s why he had that look of revalation
If you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you'll probably remember there was a scene in a fancy restaurant. There was a deleted sequence in which the trio discovered that the "sweetbread" they were eating was pancreas. The recipe that Skinner told Lingiini to make specifically because it was gross was a sweetbread variant. I'm not saying there was an intentional connection between the movies, I'm just saying sometimes it's nice when media keeps little things like that always under the surface of the collective culture.
Girlll, rats in a restaurant... It can make it close and end career just by being there, just one rat. If anyone see the rat, they're done. Thats why they are so ready to get Remy every time
There's a theory online, that Guestou had his own "Little Chef" Possibly Remy's mother, where he gets his love for cooking from. Its possible Remy's mother was killed by humans and Guestu was saddened by the loss of his friend and why Remy's father hates humans. Also, Shotguns traditionally use shells not bullets.
And yes you can point at a table and ask for what they are having. Have done it a few times when I see something that looks real good and have no clue what it is. If you want to be really adventurous, you can select randomly with your eyes closed or just ask the server for recommendations.
The reason I love this movie is that it's kind of a reverse UP. In UP, it's the sad beginning that gets you, and the rest of the movie is good but not nearly as good, in Ratatouille, most of the movie is pretty solid, but then the ending is just this deep, warm feeling that overwhelms you. Kind of like a good home-cooked meal.
I feel like Ratatouille is an underrated gem of a movie. It is so good and enjoyable. Also, a few years after the movie came out, I had a pet rat I called Remy. I wish I still had him. He was amazing.
They kicked out the chef because he hid the real owner if he had been a nice guy they would have left him as head chef. Linguini was just the owner, the chef did it to himself.
If you look closely when Linguini consinders stuffing Remy inside his pants and he makes the "Do I have to?"-face, you can see that Linguini's underwear have The Incredibles pattern.
This is one of my favorite movies, but it changed as I grew up. As a kid, it was because I loved to cook. As an adult, it's because I'm a game designer. It sounds strange, but every time I watch this movie, I relate to Rémy wanting to add to the world and make new things. To both my sister, who studies and wants to make film, and I, we love to hear Ego's review. It tells new artists that eveything will be all right
The reason the back of Ego's typewriter is shaped like a skull and his chamber is shaped like coffin is because he's a killer critic. His harsh critism did kill Gustaue literally and figuratively.
7:03 - 7:19 28:45 He’s definitely not so bad once you know his backstory. Ala this movie, which won the Academy Award For BAF and spawned a theme park ride and a fan made musical from TikTok!
I was in a culinary arts program for three years back in vocational school. It wasn't my passion but it was one of the few interesting options available. I got accepted and I stuck through it while some others quit. I was pretty much the Linguini of the group. One of them, at least. I lacked what some of the more skilled students had but I never even thought about quitting. In time I got more confident and started cooking more at home, too. This movie was actually one of the things that kept the fire burning from start to finish.
The reason why the kitchen staff would freak out about seeing a rat is because they could lose their jobs, their reputation, and shut down the restaurant. A rat could ruin a whole days or weeks worth of work and prep.
The reason ego loved the ratatouille is that remy used his recipe from his cook book. The book he stole from the old lady with a shotgun. In egos flashback we see the house of the shotgun lady. The old lady is egos mom. So remy really served him his childhood food.
I looked it up and apparently people have looked carefully at the houses in the relevant scenes and they are not the same. If that’s not enough for you, the director himself debunked the theory. The old lady is just an old lady.
The reason why the French especially the people in the kitchen get so aggressive with rats in this movie is that in real life if word gets out there's even one rat it could possibly mean shutting down the restaurant. Even if it's for a couple days couple weeks months to indefinitely they don't want to get out so they try to exterminate it and keep it hush hush
Not quite rat meat weird, but there is a custom where they catch this bird that flies north/south during seasonal migrations, and the custom specifically has them eating the birds whole (no feathers). They would cover their heads with a towel to hide their faces from God. Here's a quote from wiki "They eat the ortolan whole, with or without the head, and some may spit out the larger bones, while others eat the whole bird head, bones and all. The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird."
After seeing this in the theater with my little sister, she asked me if I would make ratatouille for her. It was more Mama Ego's style than Remy's, but she ate it. Years later, when she was in middle school, she brought that up among her friends, and one of them said, "That's not a real dish. They made that up for the movie." Ugh. Still, delicious dish, fantastic movie.
As for the "ill have what their having" can be done to a point. Itd be the servers job to kake sure the guest knows whats in it and what it is their asking for. As a server, ive had a few people request something they saw on another guests plate. Though its not common at the places iv worked.
There's also Ratatouille: the Tiktok Musical that was done in 2017. Has Kevin Chamberlain, Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess, Ashley Park (from Mean Girls). It's very well done, considering it was done entirely using Tiktok.
to answer the 'best food is made in France' question at the start.... well tbh it's just subjective, but for the tv it of course is like self promotion in order to make people want to go to the fancy restaurants.
That's what inheritance is. Let's remember, for centuries people learned what their parents did then took over. Blacksmiths became Blacksmiths. Actors became actors. In today's world, we say do what you want or can get for a job.
"The best food in the world is made in France." The Italians find that debatable. The French and Italians certainly corner the market on fine dining. I once told a co-worker that affordable Italian food was called pizza. Amongst the most bizarre things to come out of Pandemic, the theaters kids of TikTok came together to write a Ratatouille the Musical, which then became a benefit concert. I'm gonna be honest, it was still very much in development and needed more time.
Anton Ego is one of my favorite Pixar antagonists and I like how he is "defeated". Phenomenal storytelling with that one bite and I love his subsequent character development and review.
I like that, instead of going the typical way of showing an uptight critic get humiliated, they showed the better side of critics by allowing him to be changed by a positive experience. And instead of being stuck in his ways, he changed his tune and wrote a great review. Having once been a critic myself (albeit in a different medium), I was pleased about that.
They defeated "ego" with a humble "peasant" dish
"I don't like food... I LOVE it! If I don't love it, I don't swallow!"
By the end of the movie, I will always love that Anton Ego is so much happier. They animated him less thin and his cheeks are much rounder. He's been enjoying himself and loving the food when he visits Colette, Linguini and Remy at their new restaurant.
RIP Peter O'Toole for portraying Anton Ego
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"They are NOT playing about rats! What's going on in France?!"
I guess they took that Black Plague thing seriously. 😂
Who knew History classes could be important!?😓
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Why they gotta bring up old stuff?! 😂
It wasn't *technically* nepotism with Linguini inheriting the restaurant since legally it only made him the owner. Had Skinner been up front about the will from the start he possibly could have talked Linguini into allowing him to stay on as the chef/manager while Linguini got an appropriate cut of the profit as the owner... no need to be chef or cook if he didn't want to, which he didn't. It just meant Skinner having to sacrifice some of the income he'd become accustomed to having (which is why he hid the truth). By subverting the will for so long it just allowed the charade to go on resulting in everyone fully believing Linguini was truly a genius chef rather than someone who just got lucky. Result: Skinner comes off as a greedy schemer (which he was) who was justifiably fired, with everyone demanding Linguini take his place as the new head chef since they've become convinced he's a genius chef just like his father.
Skinner didnt really care about the restaurant.. he primarily cared about being able to use gusteau's name for his cheap american fast food dishes
as a trained chef with a degree in culinary arts and 30 years working in restaurants I love this movie
As a person with almost no cooking experience whatsoever, same
@@Irapa7 As a person who has trouble making soft fried eggs, me three.
As a passionate traditional cook who has been cooking for a decade now. Since my Italian mother taught me to cook when I was 12. I love this movie.
As a shift manager at a pizza restaurant, I also love this movie.
As someone who would truly appreciate you cooking them a tasty meal, I love this comment.
one insane detail is that Linguini's a clumsy walker but with the roller skates he takes that to his full advantage as he can use the momentum of the skates to keep his balance, I remember watching this movie everyday when I was a kid and recently found out about this detail it's amazing, also another detail that the ghost imagination of Gusteau doesn't appear again after Remy gets saved by his father and brother as now he knows that his true guidance and comfort is his family
Rats physically cannot vomit. Yet Remy still wants to throw up smelling Linguini's soup. That's how BAD it was...
Rats also cannot pull a persons hair and make a man walk and cook gourmet food.
I got an ad to support kamala, I had the same reaction as Remy
Imagine being such a bad cook that you break the laws of biology 😆🤣
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Also can't taste anything bitter, which is why rat poison is so bitter it will make a human throw up
My favorite aspect of this movie is how, at the start, we see the interplay of flavors represented as shapes and colors; initially they're vague, undefined, but as the movie progresses they become more specific, more nuanced. Until, at the very end, taste invokes not just shapes and colors, but full-on memories. That is the true power of art, and, as usual, Pixar captures it perfectly.
16:30 This scene is based on a real pest control shop in Paris called Aurouze. The distinctive window display is like an emblem of the shop. The rats are real but preserved taxidermy style and have been there almost a hundred years.
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The keeping your station clear literally plays through my head at work years later. Crazy.
That moment at 26:40 is exactly why I love to cook. It's a bite of food that can instantly transport someone to a better time, when life was simpler. It's seeing that look on someone's face who has just gone through the shittiest day of the past decade of their life. They sit down at the table, tired, emotionally drained, and feeling defeated. But when they take that first bite of the meal you've prepared for them, all of that shit just falls away, and for the next 20 minutes or so, life is good. That's what food can do for the soul.
This movie was phenomenal. Growing up I loved to cook. So much so that I pursued it as a career. It is movies like these (among other factors) that have the potential of establishing passions within our youth.
Well... Rats in Paris is a huge problem.
First : if someone see a rat in a restaurant it can be immediately closed for a while to sanitize the place
Second : if a rat come at a place where they can find food, they come back with friends and settle in
Third : a Rat that is seen while doing business (instead when it's closed and safe for him) that means there is not just one
Four : Rat can easily spread decease. In a big restaurant with fancy and expensive products is REALLY a huge problem
Yeah, you're right. Every city in the world that's located at a river has a rat population at least as big as the human one. Often many times over.
As in relation to the disease thing, rats are the ones responsible for the Black (Bubonic) Plague that killed SO MANY people in Europe. For the French, and any other European nation, to have such a disdained hatred for rats is no mystery. I certainly wouldn’t want something like the Black Plague to happen again, so yeah I’d also treat a rat with great hostile prejudice. lol
@@Jaden_The_Celestial Rats are actually quite clean animals on their own.. its their parasites that causes the problems.. as it was with the black plague as well being the fleas which were the infection spreaders
14:42 The whole point of Skinner's motives are the fact that he purposefully wanted Linguini to fail. Not realizing that Remy was ready to meet the challenge.
20:35 Very well put right there. That is exactly one big thing about why Skinner is mad and loathes Linguini.
Skinner has technically lived and worked in the shadow of Gusteau for a possibly a long time. Of course, when things started going downhill after he passed away, he turned his attention to the things that would guarantee to help him make money because it's debatable that he stopped caring about Gusteau's even though he's the one managing and running it. He's more angry and disappointed at Linguini because from his perspective, he's probably thinking, "who the hell is this idiot that just showed up out of nowhere?" Eventually discovering that Linguini is Gusteau's son by blood is terrifying for him because all the work that he's built up and done will be given away to someone he feels doesn't deserve it. It doesn't work out for him since Remy helps Linguini become a big name as time goes on.
RIP to the great Sir Ian Holm (Bilbo Baggins from the original LOTR trilogy) for providing the voice acting to Skinner.
Skinner also could've not been a little shit and tried to hide information to illegally cut out Linguini from his inheritance, probably could've just kept his position as head chef, Linguini hardly seemed very ambitious and would've likely been perfectly happy to sit at home and get his share of profits as the owner.
This is one of my favourite Pixar movies ever. So glad you could react to this masterpiece
One of the best little details in the film is that the old lady in the beginning is Ego's mom (you can tell because it's the same house). Remy learned to cook from her cookbooks, so when he cooked the ratatouille it was literally the recipe Ego ate as a kid.
I never caught that! I'll have to check that out on my next watch.
Egos speech still hits so hard today and in so many other facets of life.
21:27 "If I don't love it, I don't swallow" line got her acting up :D
There's plenty of people who swallow even if they don't love it... Those are the ones who are "keepers", or "marriage material".
Gusteau likely died of a heart attack, from a combination of poor diet and from shock and stress. But it's romantic to report it as a broken heart.
It is possible to die from a broken heart, known as broken heart syndrome. Rare case, especially for death. But that is also something that makes sense too!
While it’s technically a Disney-Pixar animation, I still consider it the last independent Pixar Animation Studio film before the Mouse bought the Emeryville company.
The dish that is presented to Anton Ego was actually created by celebrity chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry restaurant for the film. It is a version of his Confit byaldi, which, in turn, was inspired by French chef Michel Guérard’s recipe by the same name, a refinement of traditional ratatouille. Michel Guérard is one of the founders of nouvelle cuisine.
The only other studio that pays this attention to detail in food, is Studio Ghibli, Japan’s premier animation studio.
I don't watch animated films but randomly I went to see this in the theater when it came out, literally just by myself. I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it. What a delightful film.
One of my all time favorite comedies, and one of many amazing Pixar films. Great reaction as always! Though how you don't just die laughing when Linguini is blindfolded in his own kitchen and Remy is cooking using the hair the first time is beyond me. I am on the floor laughing every single time.
I love to cook. I really like screwing around with flavors and textures and trying out new stuff - and my family is suitably (that is, unknowingly) spoiled because of it. My favorite parts of this movie is how they showed a kitchen functioning - all the ingredients, the storage, all the stations equipped with gas burners used to prep different parts of the dishes, and all the beautiful copper cookware. The artform of plating food (some would consider it pretentious, not me) and how a restaurant kitchen works is just perfectly conveyed in this movie as well.
I really, really like this movie because it treats the food and restaurant as almost another character in itself.
Disney/Pixar at its peak 💯 Also definitely one of my favorite movies with Wall-E being second.
This is one of those movies where not only do I never get tired of seeing it, my love and appreciation grows with each viewing.
I just love your reviews. You are so sweet. I love that you can be happy and grosed out at the same time. You are just so adorable and yet still have strong values. I love how you can see the good in things that others might not. I was not blown away by this movie when I first saw it but seeing your review gave me a new perspective on this film. I just love your channel. Keep being who you are and making the world just a little bit brighter.
I saw somewhere too that theres a hidden aspect that people tend to miss but makes it that much more heart warming. Anton ego the moment he takes a bite of the ratatouille he is transported back to his child hood and his mother making it for him. But if you re watch that scene and pay close attention to the details of the house behind the young anton and then his mother you will notice this house looks strikingly familiar. If you go back to the beginning, where remi and his family live in the old ladys ceiling, when remi comes down into her house, we see him watching the chef on tv, teaching himself to read. Ect. However it was pointed out that many things in the old ladies house look alike the furniture and layout of the house from anton's childhood home... the reason he knew how to make ratatouille like antons mom is because he watched HER make it over the years. The person said its easy to see that once u pay close attention that the old lady had to be anton's mother.
I love Ratatouille growing up. Truly one of the best Pixar movies ever made.
This is one of those movies you can't predict, and before you know it you're falling it love with it, and when it ends you just want to watch it again -- the same is true about your reaction! Loved watching how much Remy grew on you and how by the end of the movie you were singing a different tune completely -- 5 stars for this reaction vid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
What's funny about Remy almost gets sick when he smells Linguini's soup, is that rats are incapable of vomiting, so imaigine of someone being so bad at cooking that it makes a rat throw up (or almost in this case).
Like WALL-E, I feel like this is one of those Pixar films that gets better as you get older. As a kid you enjoy all the animal antics and slapstick comedy, but watching it as an adult shows what a beautifully mature and nuanced story this is, with all the rich themes, interesting character development and outright gorgeous animation, not to mention Michael Giacchino's romantic, energetic and delightful score. Over the last few years it's gone from being a fairly middling Pixar film in my opinion to one of their all-time greats, and (alongside The Incredibles) cemented Brad Bird as perhaps the best writer-director to work for Pixar
Rats carried the bubonic plague that wiped out millions in Europe. I agree they're cute pets but just because New York has them doesn't mean the rest of us have to like them 😂
Rats are actually extremely clean with their grooming! I believe the bubonic plague was on the fleas, not the rats themselves. Theres a lot of misconceptions about rats
@@Sammy90990 If the rats could not keep the fleas off themselves, then it really doesn't matter how well-groomed they are, because they were still carrying the plague everywhere they went.
Go see the short film "Your Friend the Rat" with Remy & Emile, releasing alongside the feature film.
“If I don’t love it, I don’t swallow” don’t worry vicki, I had the same reaction watching this again at this age😂
Also fun fact the DNA from Gusteau hat was indeed Rodent hair which means that the father gave Linguine his hair traits to be controlled by another rat, it also explains all the “Anyone can cook” books and motto that Gusteau constantly said….
I always assumed it was due to the rat spending time in the hat. Lost a few hairs along the way.
@@johndaily263 they tested Linguines fathers hat the one in the case
When Remy and Emile got struck by lightning, it scared me when I saw the theater, because it was so loud!
Some believe the reason for the Ego flashback was that Remy was living in his mothers house(the old lady with the shotgun) and that would explain why he specfically had a memory of his childhood. Cause he knows his mothers cooking
2 interesting curiosities about the film is that the menus served in the restaurant are priceless, which is common in restaurants of that level. Additionally, Gusteau is based on Bernard Loiseau, a French chef who committed suicide because of the rumors of the loss of one of his stars.
As someone with pet rats, I absolutely love this movie. And, in my personal experience, I could see this sorta happening. Some of my rats have been far more accurate about knowing when the food in the oven was ready than the timer. They'd come out and start sniffing when it was done. If they did it before the timer dinged, I'd find it a bit burnt. If they didn't do it and the timer dinged, I'd find it still needed to bake a bit more.
If you look at reactions of top chefs to this movie you see they all give it 10/10...this is how well made this movie is regarding the restaurant setting as well. Also cooking is the ultimate art form. The complete dish is pretty to the eye..great to smell..taste great and if you do it right feels amazing as well..no other form of art can accomplish that (applying to all our senses). Also the reaction of the critic at the end to the Ratatouille is something we all can relate..everyone of the planet has a dish that takes him in memory to his childhood..and for a tiny serene moment you are young again and happy..and that is a beautiful thing
23:59 - I've seen the movie myself before, so I know what was actually said, but that edit makes it look like Remy's imaginary Gusteau was saying "But you don't know who you are, you never did."
You ask what we took away from this movie. For me, it's the transporting, transformative quality of the best art, be it fine culinary arts, a painting, or a symphony. (Or even a movie!) The film illustrates how art is essential to our inner humanity and ties us together in a global community. Artists create to connect across cultures and across time. Furthermore, the drive to create and invent is unstoppable. Yes, I know these are grandiose, big ol' thoughts, so the casting of a little, tiny rat is brilliant. If the deaf can compose (Beethoven) and the blind can paint (later Matisse), why can't a rat be a master chef?
10:07 Aww! Look at those sad eyes and ears. Don’t yell at him, Linguini. You took his breakfast away this morning.
This was my kids favorite road trip movie, I've "heard" it about 30 times, I've actually only seen it once :D
5:00 grandma went into war mode! She was like, "NO SURVIVORS!" 🤣😳😆
Saw one chef refer to this flick as the "Harry Potter of cooking." They loved it.
Lol; please don't insult this great movie by comparing it to that P.O.S., garbage series.
i love cooking, started off as a prep cook in my Junior year of Highschool and my senior year i got to work on fish station, pasta station and sauté station. almost 4 years of cooking but i’m still learning as a young chef and still aspiring!
Skinner did tarnish the reputation of Gustaue's with his frozen food, when it used to be the best resturant in Paris, the cremé de la cremé of Haute Cusuine, with the Chef's motto "Anyone can Cook" and he made the best food in Paris, if not France (and to the frenshmen best in the world). Skinner's product placement of everyday non-french food clashes greatly with what Gustaue stood for. He didn't care about the food, he cared about money.
Ego's review always brings a tear to my eye
Anton Ego, played by Peter O’Toole, is an homage to a very book by Marcel Proust. In “A la recherche des tomps perdu, “Remembererance of Things Past”. Proust was a brillant author and literary critic. In the book, a character suddenly encounters a basket of medelines, French coffee cakes, and a vivid memory of his childhood. A smell of them returns him to when he was young and his mother would bake the cakes and a rememberance of everything about his childhood. This is a classic in French literature. I also worked in a kitchen in Paris and the set-up is old-school French cooking.
On some of the Disney Cruise ships, they have a restaurany named Remy, and base it off Ratatoullie. They even do the exact soup from the movie! But they freeze then flash fry it in breading, so you get one perfect bite of the soup. Highly recommended.
I'm glad I went to the theater to see this movie when I was a kid. Truly one of the most beautiful Pixar films
Me too
I got to see every Pixar film from Finding Nemo through to Toy Story 3 in the cinemas, and to this day I'm so glad I was able to experience their golden age like that
This movie accurately depicts how a fine dining professional kitchen operates. Chef Thomas Keller is actually a consultant for this movie to make sure the kitchen dynamic is captured accurately.
One of my favorite Pixar movies growing up (tied with WALL·E of course) the food in this movie always looked so good to the point where I haven’t went through this whole movie without getting hungry. Thats how good this movie is to me.
I once saw an interview with a famous chef here in Sweden, Tore Wretman. At age 17 he managed to get an apprenticeship at the prestigious Maxim's in Paris. He said in the much later interview that back then, 1933, they had such a massive rat infestation problem at Maxim's, that they had a terrier in the kitchen, killing rats. Cats didn't suffice, the rats were too big.
5:08 “two paths diverged… Remi took the one less traveled by and that made all the difference.”
This movie is forever a comfort movie for me. Its such a beautiful heartwarming ending, I love it.
2:03 Even a CGI rat gets a jump scare on a young woman.
Also Patrick Stewart was the voice of the "food critic", btw.
Actually, it was Peter O'Toole.. I always thought it was Sir Ian McKellen until I looked it up😉
I like to think that when Gusto told Remmy he never had to pretend and touched him on the shoulder, that he was actually telling Remmy that he was really Gusto and that’s why he had that look of revalation
If you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you'll probably remember there was a scene in a fancy restaurant. There was a deleted sequence in which the trio discovered that the "sweetbread" they were eating was pancreas. The recipe that Skinner told Lingiini to make specifically because it was gross was a sweetbread variant. I'm not saying there was an intentional connection between the movies, I'm just saying sometimes it's nice when media keeps little things like that always under the surface of the collective culture.
Skinner is voiced by the actor who played Bilbo Baggins in LOTR! I didn't know that until years later. RIP Ian Holm
When Ego takes that first bite of Ratatouille, it's one of my favorite movie moments.
Girlll, rats in a restaurant... It can make it close and end career just by being there, just one rat. If anyone see the rat, they're done. Thats why they are so ready to get Remy every time
There's a theory online, that Guestou had his own "Little Chef" Possibly Remy's mother, where he gets his love for cooking from. Its possible Remy's mother was killed by humans and Guestu was saddened by the loss of his friend and why Remy's father hates humans.
Also, Shotguns traditionally use shells not bullets.
Another amazing movie. Ego's review and turn at the end has such impact.
10/10 best movie of all time. I just watched your WALL-E video yesterday so I almost freaked out when I saw you uploaded this!
And yes you can point at a table and ask for what they are having. Have done it a few times when I see something that looks real good and have no clue what it is. If you want to be really adventurous, you can select randomly with your eyes closed or just ask the server for recommendations.
The reason I love this movie is that it's kind of a reverse UP. In UP, it's the sad beginning that gets you, and the rest of the movie is good but not nearly as good, in Ratatouille, most of the movie is pretty solid, but then the ending is just this deep, warm feeling that overwhelms you. Kind of like a good home-cooked meal.
I feel like Ratatouille is an underrated gem of a movie. It is so good and enjoyable. Also, a few years after the movie came out, I had a pet rat I called Remy. I wish I still had him. He was amazing.
They kicked out the chef because he hid the real owner if he had been a nice guy they would have left him as head chef. Linguini was just the owner, the chef did it to himself.
Imagine hitting your boss on your moped and he immediately starts spouting something absolutely deranged, like about rats stealing documents. lol
The ride at Epcot (and Disneyland Paris) is basically a speedrun version of the movie.
This move is so Iconic, thank you for watching this Vkunia
If you look closely when Linguini consinders stuffing Remy inside his pants and he makes the "Do I have to?"-face, you can see that Linguini's underwear have The Incredibles pattern.
7:05 idk why this cracked me up. "....he's a rat." Idk sounds like a mob boss hating on someone
This is one of my favorite movies, but it changed as I grew up.
As a kid, it was because I loved to cook.
As an adult, it's because I'm a game designer.
It sounds strange, but every time I watch this movie, I relate to Rémy wanting to add to the world and make new things. To both my sister, who studies and wants to make film, and I, we love to hear Ego's review. It tells new artists that eveything will be all right
The reason the back of Ego's typewriter is shaped like a skull and his chamber is shaped like coffin is because he's a killer critic. His harsh critism did kill Gustaue literally and figuratively.
7:03 - 7:19
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He’s definitely not so bad once you know his backstory. Ala this movie, which won the Academy Award For BAF and spawned a theme park ride and a fan made musical from TikTok!
"Ratatouille" is one of my all time favorite animated films.
I was in a culinary arts program for three years back in vocational school. It wasn't my passion but it was one of the few interesting options available. I got accepted and I stuck through it while some others quit. I was pretty much the Linguini of the group. One of them, at least. I lacked what some of the more skilled students had but I never even thought about quitting. In time I got more confident and started cooking more at home, too. This movie was actually one of the things that kept the fire burning from start to finish.
..."the journey to mastery always sucks in the beginning" _ Ghandi
The reason why the kitchen staff would freak out about seeing a rat is because they could lose their jobs, their reputation, and shut down the restaurant. A rat could ruin a whole days or weeks worth of work and prep.
The reason ego loved the ratatouille is that remy used his recipe from his cook book. The book he stole from the old lady with a shotgun. In egos flashback we see the house of the shotgun lady. The old lady is egos mom. So remy really served him his childhood food.
Wait... is this true? Is this canon??
I looked it up and apparently people have looked carefully at the houses in the relevant scenes and they are not the same.
If that’s not enough for you, the director himself debunked the theory. The old lady is just an old lady.
@@christopherlundgren1700 Also, it's not Ego's book -- it's _Gusteau's,_ with his image on the cover (that Remi converses with).
This & Chef (with Jon Favreau) are 2 of my favorite comfort movies. Chef with not just the food, but the music too.💙💙
The shade Ego threw at Chef Boyardee is what made me stop eating it when I was a kid
This movie was on like every time at my grandma's when I was 5 was one of the few dvds I had starting off🤣
The reason why the French especially the people in the kitchen get so aggressive with rats in this movie is that in real life if word gets out there's even one rat it could possibly mean shutting down the restaurant. Even if it's for a couple days couple weeks months to indefinitely they don't want to get out so they try to exterminate it and keep it hush hush
Not quite rat meat weird, but there is a custom where they catch this bird that flies north/south during seasonal migrations, and the custom specifically has them eating the birds whole (no feathers). They would cover their heads with a towel to hide their faces from God. Here's a quote from wiki
"They eat the ortolan whole, with or without the head, and some may spit out the larger bones, while others eat the whole bird head, bones and all. The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird."
After seeing this in the theater with my little sister, she asked me if I would make ratatouille for her. It was more Mama Ego's style than Remy's, but she ate it.
Years later, when she was in middle school, she brought that up among her friends, and one of them said, "That's not a real dish. They made that up for the movie."
Ugh. Still, delicious dish, fantastic movie.
As for the "ill have what their having" can be done to a point. Itd be the servers job to kake sure the guest knows whats in it and what it is their asking for. As a server, ive had a few people request something they saw on another guests plate. Though its not common at the places iv worked.
Remmy: "We are thieves"
Vkunia: "One mans trash is another mans treasure"
I don't think that was supposed to be the take away for stealing. lol
There's also Ratatouille: the Tiktok Musical that was done in 2017.
Has Kevin Chamberlain, Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess, Ashley Park (from Mean Girls).
It's very well done, considering it was done entirely using Tiktok.
to answer the 'best food is made in France' question at the start.... well tbh it's just subjective, but for the tv it of course is like self promotion in order to make people want to go to the fancy restaurants.
That's what inheritance is.
Let's remember, for centuries people learned what their parents did then took over.
Blacksmiths became Blacksmiths.
Actors became actors.
In today's world, we say do what you want or can get for a job.
5:03 Mickey gets a steamboat, Remy gets a raft/book.
"The best food in the world is made in France." The Italians find that debatable. The French and Italians certainly corner the market on fine dining. I once told a co-worker that affordable Italian food was called pizza.
Amongst the most bizarre things to come out of Pandemic, the theaters kids of TikTok came together to write a Ratatouille the Musical, which then became a benefit concert. I'm gonna be honest, it was still very much in development and needed more time.
“How sensitive is his skull?”
Red head. That’s all the explanation you need.
I love Ratatouille! Such a good Disney/Pixar film.
Im a Chef for over 10 years now ..... and it sounds crazy but this on is in my Top 5 List of ALL the cooking Movies. love it
10:09 This will compensate from this morning, Remy.
Love that she learned to like Remy, despite her initial impression.
You mean, "One man's trash is some rat's treasure."