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But can Remy and Linguini triumph over the evil head chef, a sawed-off Napoleonic control freak (Ian Holm)?ДЄnd what about the brooding, cadaverous, ultimate-snob food critic Anton Ego? He looks like a macabre Tim Burton puppet and is voiced by Peter O'Toole, who lends dramatic oomph to lines like 'If I don't love it, I don't swallow!' Will he deign to give them a good review? Quel wacky rubber-limbed slapstick weirdness! Actually, though, it's Remy, who sits under Linguini's toque, pulling tufts of his hair to manipulate his limbs, flinging him around the kitchen like a rag doll so that he tosses the proper ingredients into the pot. Before long, everyone is convinced that he's doing the cooking. Here's how: Remy befriends Linguini (Lou Romano), a freckled, redheaded doofus of a scullery boy blessed with no talent whatsoever. Considering that he's a rat, you may wonder how, exactly, this is accomplished. But when he's flushed through a sewer into the center of Paris, he ends up at Gusteau's, a once-legendary restaurant (its deceased celebrity chef gets conjured up as a friendly ghost), and before long he has become the kitchen's star cook. Remy, with his overly refined flavor buds, is the odd fellow out amid his scavenger rat pack of country relatives, who regard his good taste as fussiness. While on a rooftop, he gets struck by lightning, which singes the mushroom he's holding, zapping it into a succulent barbecued delicacy, for which he must then locate the absolute perfect seasoning (it's saffron, in case you were wondering). It starts with his quivery pink nose, which can suss out the inner essence of any ingredient, from cheese to chervil. His name is Remy (he's voiced by the comedian Patton Oswalt) and really, once you get past any negative associations you may have about rodents (what would an animated fable be if it didn't fight prejudice?), he's a very sweet guy, with a knack that might qualify him as a genius. The hero of 'Ratatouille' is - let's not mince words - a rat, with scruffy bluish fur and what might be called a highly developed sense of garbage.

In the case of the antic kiddie gourmet comedy 'Ratatouille,' which might be described as Anatole the mouse meets 'Emeril Live,' the expectations are high: The writer-director is Brad Bird, who made 'The Incredibles' (2004), and it would be hard to name an animated film, from Pixar or anyone else, that was ever more incredible.

RAT IN RATATOUILLE MOVIE MOVIE

(Entertainment Weekly) - It's always a pleasure to walk into a new movie from Pixar, those kinetic wizards of shiny sculpted animation who gave us the 'Toy Story' films, 'Finding Nemo,' and 'Cars,' because it's a safe bet that you're in for a sparkly good time - or, just maybe, a great one.

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