On Linguini's first day as a chef, he and Remy find a way to communicate: Remy guides Linguini like a marionette by pulling on his hair while hidden under Linguini's toque, while Skinner assigns Colette to train his new cook. When Skinner catches Remy trying to escape, he orders Linguini to kill the rat, but Linguini discovers Remy's intelligence, and decides to keep him instead. Colette Tatou, the staff's only female chef, convinces Skinner to retain Linguini, who is assumed to be the soup's creator. As the two argue, the soup is accidentally served and proves to be a success. Linguini catches Remy, but hides him when he is then confronted by Skinner for tampering with the soup. When Linguini spills a pot of soup and attempts to recreate it, Remy recognizes that he is ruining it instead, and repairs Linguini's mistakes. He ends up in the sewers of Paris and eventually finds himself at a skylight overlooking the kitchen of Gusteau's restaurant.Īs Remy watches, a young man named Alfredo Linguini is hired as a garbage boy by Skinner, the restaurant's devious current owner and Gusteau's former sous-chef. When an old French woman discovers Remy's clan in her house, they are forced to flee, and Remy becomes separated from his family in the panic. Inspired by his idol, the recently deceased chef Auguste Gusteau, Remy dreams of becoming a cook himself. Remy is an idealistic and ambitious young rat, gifted with highly developed senses of taste and smell. The film later won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, among other honors. The film grossed US$620.7 million at the box office and received universal acclaim. Ratatouille premiered on Jat the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California, with its general release June 29, 2007, in the United States.
Bird also interned at Thomas Keller's French Laundry restaurant, where Keller developed the confit byaldi, a dish used in the film. To create the food animation used in the film, the crew consulted chefs from both France and the United States. Bird and some of the film's crew members also visited Paris for inspiration. In 2005, Bird was approached to direct the film and revise the story. The plot follows Remy, who dreams of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an alliance with a Parisian restaurant's garbage boy.ĭevelopment of Ratatouille began in 2000 when Pinkava wrote the original concepts of the film. The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as Remy, an anthropomorphic rat who is interested in cooking Lou Romano as Linguini, a young garbage boy who befriends Remy Ian Holm as Skinner, the head chef of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant Janeane Garofalo as Colette, a rôtisseur at Gusteau's restaurant Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a restaurant critic Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy's father and leader of his clan Peter Sohn as Emile, Remy's older brother and Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently deceased chef. The title refers to a French dish, "ratatouille", which is served at the end of the film, and is also a play on words about the species of the main character. It is the 1620th film produced by Pixar, and was written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Cinematography by: Robert Anderson ( camera)