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Ratatouille Dominates the Annie Awards.
The International Animated Film Society Awards – the Annies – were presented on Friday and Ratatouille once again came out on top. Walking into the show with seats in 13 nominated categories, Ratatouille walked away with 10. Is Ratatouille the new Mickey?
Cuz apparently Yahoo has caves:
Disney and Pixar’s rodent tale “Ratatouille” won the award for best feature production, beating out DreamWorks’ insect story “Bee Movie,” Sony Pictures’ penguin-powered “Surf’s Up,” Sony Pictures Classics’ coming-of-age chronicle “Persepolis” and 20th Century Fox’s “The Simpsons Movie.”
Not to take anything away from Ratatouille, because this movie was absolutely incredible, but I didn’t really see a stiff list of competition here.
Surfs Up was sad, Bee Movie came and went with no buzz (sorry), Persepolis was a bit too artsy to be widely accepted, and the Simpson’s Movie was an exaggerated TV episode.
Personally I would have liked to have seen Ratatouille go up against some other impressive animated features to see if it still stood on top. I think it would (compared to some of the animated offerings in the last 5 years).
But still, a deserved win for the House of Mouse… er Rat.
this film is the worst pixar film ever.
Whoever pitched the film must be a genius
“a rat is an amazing cook….you know with his sense of smell…and chaaarrrrmmm”
general interest shown by the pixar head honchos.
“…and this rat can manipulate a human’s whole body by tugging on their hair!…which means we can really show off how good we can render hair now”
heads nod at pixar until there is one voice
“what about the story?”
the story department goes quiet as do every one ..until the render team pipe up.
“fuck that we just want really good hair and anyway the public swallowed cars and that had no story… and no hair..go green it’s a winner”
Since when does animation have to be believable?
Did you really think the Coyote could survive all those falls off of cliffs in the desert?
If you over analyze ANY animated feature you can make it sound stupid. Next thing you know they will make some retarded film about talking toys, transforming robot cars from space or a robot that still miraculously works 700 years later.
I don’t know how you enjoy ANY Pixar film if this is your approach to this film.
Persepolis was robbed.
This really should have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
Hi Rodney
Just rewatch the film.
Toy story, monsters inc a ton of disney and ice age 1 all work.
The rat film is bad. It is unfunny but looks amazing.
Please state to me 3 funny parts of the film..go on do it..you know the classic stuff.he he ha ha
Paul
Paul, i’ve just this second finished rewatching ‘Ratatouille’ and i will gladly oblige:
1. “You can get too familiar with vegetables you know”
2. Skinner’s insane rant to his lawyer about how the rat is deliberately trying to distract him.
3. The health inspector seeing the rats.
It’s an utterly wonderful and beautiful film to my mind.
My sentiments about the Simpson’s exactly! A really long TV episode and a middling one at that. Persepolis was unique and interesting, but I thought it was wee bit light weight and just too “cute” – cute about politics and culture, but still just cute. It never went to the meat of what was happening. It gets a lot more praise than it’s worthy of.
I would rather watch the fully realized and developed story and characters in a film about a cooking rat who pulls a guys hair any day.
funny parts from Ratatouille:
1. “I killed a man… with this thumb.”
2. Anton Ego having his flash back when first eating the Ratatouille (though I’ve read some people actually got teary eyed during this scene)
3. After the pancake goes out the window: Linguini trying to peek from under the blindfold and Remy slowly covering his eyes back up.
While this movie didn’t have as many funny moments compared to Pixar’s other films, it wasn’t supposed to be a straight forward comedy.
Happy to see it won a lot. I adore this movie.
best movie of the year. Period.
Paul, I believe many of the above posters have said it for me. And an animated film does not have to be funny. This movie had heart as well as a great deal of humour.
Sorry you just didnt get it. Maybe you need to taste some Ratatouille of your own.
Ratatouille was a good movie, definately better then last years “Cars”, but still a bit overrated.
That movie was very good i cant believe it had 13 nominations
to each his own.
it’s too bad you (paul) don’t get this film. it’s radically different in tone and texture than any animated film before it. this is possibly why it leaves a bad taste in you mouth (pun not really intended).
ratatouille is all about risks, not only in plot but in the actual execution of story in animated film making.
the concept is damn near impossible to market, but they did it. if the film really was bad, then word of mouth would have sank this movie. but instead it good beyond belief.
this movie worked when it shouldn’t have. i’ve watched it many times and there is a real bittersweetness (sorry) through this entire picture.
this film shows true genius. i’ve watched the cut scenes and any director working would kill for these concepts.
in fact, look for the industry to rip off ratatouille in the near future. (like the opening credits and the short film on the dvd).
cheers.
What about Shrek the Third? I know it wasn’t the best Shrek movie (I thought it was the second-best), but it surely deserved to take the spot that Ratatouille did. I mean, Ratatouille was OK, but it only had a few “mild chuckle-worthy” moments, and wasn’t very exciting- compare it to its big brother The Incredibles, which actually was a very good movie. Shrek 3 was much funnier and more quotable than Ratatouille. I don’t even see why critics hated it, it made more money than Ratatouille and “non-snobs” seem to like it more because it won the People’s Choice Award for favourite cartoon.
Shrek the Third was horrible. It was the worst of the three. It has no right to even be on the same DVD Shelf as Ratatouille does.
Even those “mild chuckle-worthy” moments in Rat were better than the entirety of Shrek3. I loved Ratatouille, and ever last second of it is better than Shrek3 in every way.
And I am a huge Mike Myers fan.