Drew W

Ah, Ratatoing. Such a moving movie. It's about a rat who owns a very famous restaurant that everyone praises about for minutes on end, dragging on and on. It's such an exquisite place, with better food then any other rat's restaurant! The secret weapon against them all? They steal fresher food then everyone else! Most of the characters are bland and cliché. The only noteworthy characters is the chef who I can't even remember the name of, that pink rat who helps the chef and one of the female evil rats, and that's a stretch to say they are noteworthy. The animation is weird, sometimes choppy in some scenes, as well as weird and slow in others- take for instance the cat running or people talking/walking occasionally. To give it some credit, however, the colors on the characters aren't horrid to look at and their proportions are... Okay, save for the cat (whom, when on two legs, tooks like a deformed tortoise.) The storyline and plot is cheap. The four evil rats want to get their hands on the secret ingredients or shut down the chef's restaurant due to their own place having to close their doors if they don't get buisness. However, fear not! While they succeed for a while, it is short-lived. Humans get a cat, chef befriends cat, cat brings evil mice to human, the end. The voice-acting is painful to the ears, and it sounds as if the voice actors have wondered what the meaning of life is anymore. I'd rather hear the lovely sound of sandpaper against my ears then listen to the voices of these mice again. If you bought this for a present for Christmas or a birthday, I hope you gifted this to your worst enemy- for it is torture of the highest degree to watch. Instead, why don't you save up your money for Ratatouille, the movie that this one knocked off for a quick buck? I promise you, you won't be disappointed.