Ratatouille

Ratatouille is an awesome movie, I must admit. The idea is new, and Remy is very cute. The basic story is that Remy can smell the ingredients out of food and wants to cook, inspired by Gustaeau a fat and very famous cook, who has a five starred restaurant. He can even smell poison in food, so, his father (the leader of the rat pack) gives him the job of smelling poison in food (what did you expect?). Remy is very pissed with life, but everyone is forbidden from entering the kitchen. One day, Remy goes into the kitchen and is seen by the old lady in whose house the rats live. The lady shooting like crazy around the house, the roof falls in, and all the rats are discovered .They escape into a sewer using small boats. Remy gets late as he tries to drag along Gustaeu’s cooking book and gets lost in the sewer. He comes up to the ground to see that he’s in Paris and in Gusteau’s restaurant.

Only a few days earlier, a food critic, something Ego(forgot the name) had given a bad review for Gusteau’s restaurant, making it losing a star. Gusteau dies of shock, causing the restaurant to lose another star, making it only 3 starred now. Since he was in the sewer, Remy starts seeing Gusteau’s ghost. The ghost tells him to go into the restaurant. Here, Remy sees a boy, Linguini, whose mother had died being given a job as a garbage boy. Linguini accidently messes up the soup. Remy can’t bear to see it and fixes the soup. The Chef had seen Linguini fiddling with the soup and thinks he made it. Linguini gets a job as a cook, though he can’t cook. He had seen Remy fixing the soup and they decide to work together, as Remy wants to cook and Linguini wants a job. Somehow, Remy can operate Linguini like robot just by pulling his hair. So, Linguini keeps Remy hidden under his hat.

A letter from Linguini’s mother shows that Linguini is actually Gusteau’s son and he inherits the restaurant. Ego declares he will come to see how Linguini cooks and the whole restaurant is worried. Just a few days before, Remy has a fight with Linguini as he doesn’t get any credit. Later, they both realize they need each other and Remy comes back. On the evening when Ego comes, Linguini tells the whole staff about how Remy is the real cook and everyone leaves (don’t ask why). Linguini goes into his office, sad. Remy calls upon his whole rat family (hundreds) who help him cook. Linguini gets out his rollerblades and serves the food. Remy serves Ego, Ratatouille, a dish which seriously is NOT made of rats. I had become afraid that maybe Remy would sacrifice himself to serve Ego Ratatouille. Ego melts on eating the dish and gives a good review, even after being told who actually cooks the dish and how. A health inspector had also popped up in the restaurant kitchen just when it was swarming with rats. The rats kept him tied up till Ego left. As they had to let him go later, the restaurant was shut down because it was declared infested with rats.

In the end, Linguini opens his own restaurant, where Remy cooks with the help of his rat family and the restaurant is named, “Ratatouille”.

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