RATATOUILLE

Brad Bird's 2007 Ratatouille, maybe the most unjustly underestimated of all Pixar films, might have gotten a higher ranking if not for the great competition. Among the many wonderful films set in the kitchen, Babette's Feast, Eat Drink Man Woman, and Like Water for Chocolate stand out, but an animated tale about a culinary rat still manages to stand out.

Remy (Patton Oswalt) is the creature, while Linguini (Lou Romano) is the main human protagonist, a scrawny youngster who lacks his late father's amazing cooking talents. Because restaurant kitchens aren't exactly rodent-friendly, and because circumstances require the singularly untalented Linguini to pass himself off as a master chef, the two pool their efforts to restore a once-famous Paris bistro to its former glory.

Ratatouille is a love letter to Paris and a valentine to the beautiful art of cooking, and Peter O'Toole's portrayal of Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole) as a food critic who is severe exactly because he loves what he's covering may be the most honest reviewer depiction ever placed on the screen.

Detailed information:

Directed by: Brad Bird
Screenplay by: Brad Bird
Story by: Jan Pinkava

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932