8 out of 10.
A very fun and funny movie for both kids and adults (an absolute must for us parents --- who wants to see the Care Bears movie?... blah)
This is about a rat who has an acute sense of smell and taste and desires to be a great chef in Paris.
Yep: A rat wants to be a great chef in Paris.
With the help of an absolutely inept apprentise who cant cook, they discover that the rat can control his movements by tugging on his hair (wonderfully silly and surreal). Together they make a great team but encounter some (ok, many) difficulties along the way:
- dad rat doesn't like the idea of his son mixing with the humans.
- brother rat keeps bringing friends by the restaurant to mooch off food.
- the inept young man works with an attracitive woman who is jealous of his talents (but still reluctantly find each other attractive).
- the head chef is visciously jealous of his teh young talent and is convinced he is out to sabatoge him (when, in fact, the head chef is selling out to big fast-food corps).
- and a food critic (wonderfully voiced by Peter O'Toole) is dead set on putting the restaurant out of business with bad food reviews.
Needless to say it has a happy ending, but how everything comes to gether is very inventive and fun. I was laughing out loud at many parts...
... which takes me to the little animated short which preceded the feature (I love that). Also by Pixar, this short entitles "Lifted" must be seen. I will not even try and describe it, for any attempt on my part would lessen it effect.
Needless to say, I laughed out loud to the point I was crying. Not bad for a little 5 min. bit of animation.
10 out of 10 for that one...
go see.
rent a kid if you have to ....
) stole the show.