Another Pixar classic. I just bought it on blu-ray recently and tried it out the other night. Rob had never seen it, so I made him. The short that comes with it is Lifted, one of my absolute favorites. I think he may have liked the short more than the film.Anyway, a rat named Remy (Patton Oswalt) dreams of becoming a chef. He is guided to one of the best restaurants in Paris by the spirit of its dead owner, Auguste Gusteau (Brad Garrett), only to find that Gusteau's successor is more interested in capitalizing on the chef's name with a line of frozen food than adhering to the tenets of fine cuisine. The other new arrival is Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), a gangly scarecrow who is woefully inept in the kitchen, but is hired as a garbage boy as a favor to his recently deceased mother, a one-time paramour to Gusteau. Remy is caught by Linguini after he 'fixes' a soup that Linguini had messed up and a partnership is born. The head chef, Skinner (Ian Holm), is suspicious that Alfredo has come to take the restaurant away, and Remy's father (Brian Dennehy) is concerned that he is spending too much time around humans. Hanging over them all is the menacing spectre of Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole), a fearsome food critic whose previous review of the restaurant caused it to lose a star and contributed to Gusteau's death.
If Pixar were a restaurant, it would have five Michelin stars. Even flops like Cars and its sequel only serve to as contrasts to their successes, like a shadow emphasizes how bright a light shines. There's really nothing to say about them that can't be summed up with the words "It's Pixar."
No comments:
Post a Comment