Trailer Tuesday: Ratatouille

I had completely forgotten about Ratatouille - the latest Pixar flick from Iron Giant and Incredibles writer-director Brad Bird.

In the hilarious new animated-adventure, RATATOUILLE, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the city of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen at one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage boy, who inadvertently discovers Remy's amazing talents. They strike a deal, ultimately setting into motion a hilarious and exciting chain of extraordinary events that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.


Thanks to advances in technology, it seems that everyone these days is making CG-animated films - as last year's glut of mostly average films proved. But watching this trailer you realise that nobody makes them quite like Pixar. As expected, early buzz has been exceptionally good for Ratatouille, the "rat" film to rival Dreamworks and Aardman's Flushed Away, no doubt.

Ratatouille is released in North America on 29 June... and everywhere else from July through October. No clue when it will debut in South African cinemas.