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Now THIS is the summer movie I want to see. Rats!
OK, never mind those silly Pirates. Here’s the movie I most want to see this summer: Pixar’s Ratatouille (that’s rat-a-too-ee for the French impaired). Here’s the new trailer, which just came out. This is different from the teaser you saw before Cars.
Just in case the trailer’s acting funky, here’s a link and here’s the deal: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef in Paris, where he lives beneath a restaurant made famous by his hero, Auguste Gusteau. Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage boy, who acts as Remy’s “front.”
The voice cast includes Patton Oswalt, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Peter O’Toole, and, as always for Pixar, John Ratzenberger.
Both trailers have been hilarious, and the fact that the movie’s director is Brad Bird, who made The Incredibles and The Iron Giant, only makes this movie smell all the sweeter.
In the end, it’s a matter of simple math: Animation + Pixar = genius. To me, that studio can do no wrong. Many consider last year’s Cars something of a step down, and it was, but that meant that the movie was only really good instead of great. If that’s the worst pothole you can hit, you’re running pretty smoothly.
Ratatouille cooks on June 29, which can’t come soon enough for me.
PS You’ll notice more than a few animation-related postings this week, with the release of Disney’s Meet the Robinsons, which I am seeing tonight and will review Friday.
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