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The New Ratatouille Trailer Hits
Source: Walt Disney Pictures
March 24, 2007

Walt Disney Pictures has launched the new trailer for Pixar's Ratatouille, opening in theaters on June 29. The Brad Bird-directed action-adventure features the voices of Patton Oswalt, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Peter O'Toole and John Ratzenberger.

Here (http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/ratatouille/) is from Disney..

You will be able to see the trailer when it comes out. ;)

Edit: You can see it at Disney.com (http://home.disney.go.com/index). ;)

I watched the trailer, I liked it so much I put it in my userpage. I can tell that this movie's gonna be awesome and hilarious.

I haven't even seen the trailer yet, but I can tell that the movie's going to be great, just from the teaser.

Hi, You can also watch the new trailer "Meet The Robinsons", on Disney.com (http://home.disney.go.com/). That looks as awesome at the Ratatouille!
When every new movie comes out - I expect the trailer will be put there, as with the pirates one is. So keep checking back! ;)

Ok, I watched it. Ratatouille looks great! (Hard to spell, though.)

I like this trailer a lot more than the first one I saw a year ago at the Disney shareholders meeting (in Anaheim). Essentially the same story, but this time they've added the human interest part of the story to the trailer in addition to the rats.

Definitely putting this one on my "must see" list, as well as Meet the Robinsons.

Ok, I watched it. Ratatouille looks great! (Hard to spell, though.)

And hard to say.

I haven't even seen the trailer yet, but I can tell that the movie's going to be great, just from the teaser.

Or you can just take into consideration that pretty much every pixar movie becomes and instant classic and/or big movie.

I just watched the trailer for the first time, and it does look like one movie I need to see. That's what I love about Disney trailers - They give just enough about the movie to make you want to see it, but doesn't give away the main plot. Other movies, such as Daddy Day Care and Dr. Doolittle II gave it all away in the trailers.

Not to mention "What Lies Beneath".

This looks like a great show - definitely one to see on the first day it opens.

Will Ratatouille be shown in 3-D, like Meet the Robinsons will?

Will Ratatouille be shown in 3-D, like Meet the Robinsons will?

Probably not - and as of today the IMAX site has nothing in their "coming soon" category for Ratatouille. Although as a side note, I was impressed with the off-beat British humor of the Ratatouille-type Flushed Away by DreamWorks. The French must be furious! lol

Probably not - and as of today the IMAX site has nothing in their "coming soon" category for Ratatouille. Although as a side note, I was impressed with the off-beat British humor of the Ratatouille-type Flushed Away by DreamWorks. The French must be furious! lol

Ratatouille'll be better than Flushed Away.

I looks good i cant wait to see it.

Ratatouille'll be better than Flushed Away.

Without a doubt!

Get your browsers primed and ready!

9-Minute Ratatouille Preview on May 1
Source: Walt Disney Pictures
April 23, 2007

Walt Disney Pictures has announced that Disney.com will be featuring a special 9-minute preview of Pixar's new animated-adventure Ratatouille, coming to theaters on June 29.

From director Brad Bird (The Incredibles), the film takes you into an entirely new and original world where the unthinkable combination of a rat and a 5-star gourmet restaurant come together for the ultimate fish-out-of-water tale.

Ratatouille Edit Bay Visit!
Source: Anne Neumann
April 25, 2007

This summer is sure to draw you to the theater to find out why Spidey turns to the Dark Side, how Captain Jack comes back from the dead, and to see Harry's first kiss. With all the sequels, you might you just get a hankering for something tasty and original. Leave those leftovers behind and go out for some gourmet in Pixar Animation's 8th feature film Ratatouille.

Ratatouille is not only unique among the ordinals this year, but also unique among other Pixar films. Forget cute toys, silly bugs, cuddly monsters, adorable fish, and super heroes. Rats are where it's at! Directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, 2005 Best Animated Feature), the story follows Remy the Rat (voiced by comedian Patton Oswalt) from his home in the French countryside to the foodie heaven of Paris.

Speaking from Pixar's small edit room, Bird explains, "It's a story about a rat who has extraordinary senses of taste and smell and he's drawn into cooking. He's not satisfied making a suitable rat-living off the compost heap."

Through an unfortunate accident, Remy and his family are forced to leave the quaint country and are washed down river to Paris where Remy gets separated, but fortuitously ends up at his favorite chef Auguste Gusteau's restaurant. There he meets a young garbage boy named Linguini who recognizes Remy's cooking abilities and they soon form a heart-warming partnership. But a rat is death to a kitchen and a kitchen is death to a rat and so keeping Remy out of sight while Linguini cooks to his instruction is cause for much hilarity.

Bird continues, "Everything is laid out very carefully to begin here and gradually take you down this path, it's very hard to drop people in the middle of this. But we are excited about making the unbelievable believable and viable. We all recognize that the idea was wonderfully absurd and ripe for animation. How to get the audience to come along one step at a time has been a challenge, but also a delight, because it's a particularly physical comedy."

The animation and attention to detail on Ratatouille is what you'd expect and more from Pixar. A tank of rats sat in the animation hallway for more than a year for research on how the little creatures moved their feet and paws, what happens with their tail as they run and how their noses and ears work.

"This is my first rat," says Oswalt. He's never voiced any other animals and he never even thought about it because Pixar "puts so much humanity into their characters that you don't feel like you're playing an animal." He recalls, "I went into a pet store and I was looking at rats in a cage and how they relate to their food and each other. Then I started thinking the key to the character is his obsession and passion with food. He's trying to rise above his ratness in a way. I started reading a lot of great food writers and critics about stuff they were passionate about and angry about. They were a great resource for 'here's how a foodie thinks.'"

Unknown to Bird, Oswalt was a self-proclaimed foodie before he was ever approached for the role. He has followed celebrity chefs for years. "I'd love to see Thomas Keller's take on the food of Oaxaca," says Oswalt. So, he was able to particularly identify with his rat alter-ego when Remy becomes distressed over bad cooking on Linguini's part. "I don't get angry because things are bad. I get angry because things that are good are being done badly. Things that I love are in the wrong hands or someone is ruining it."

But how do you convey the notion of food on screen? Pixar animators took a crash course on cooking and gourmet consultants were on hand to tell them about food, textures, and how kitchens are arranged. The same sub-surface light scattering technique that was used on skin in The Incredibles was used on fruits and vegetables to give them a hyperrealism. More than that, the characters talk about food and how it tastes and feels. There is also the use of music and abstract imagery to show what a certain taste is like.

But how will it compare to previous Pixar flicks? Bird recalls, "I was lucky enough to work with a lot of the old Disney masters when I was a kid and one of the things they always pushed was that they always considered themselves students. This studio also has the frame of mind that we are all students and we are always trying to top what we did before."

And with that, he becomes visibly excited when he whispers "Peter O'Toole is the grim eater food critic!" Obviously icing on the cake for award-winning Bird, and for us as well. Ratatouille is sure to spice up our regular movie fare on June 29.