Ratatouille
Kitchen rat
A rat who loves to cook creates a recipe for disaster in Ratatouille
Rats can’t be very picky eaters, right? After all, they live on garbage. The stuff we throw away — gristle, bones, banana peels, wilted lettuce — is the stuff they call breakfast, lunch and dinner.
But in the new movie Ratatouille (pronounced rat-a-too-ee), a young rat named Remy has a passion for good food. Not only does he like to eat good food, he also likes to make it, and he’s a pretty good cook.
In fact, Remy dreams of becoming a master chef, preferably at the exclusive restaurant in Paris under which he lives. But if there’s one thing restaurants don’t want to have it’s rats. So when Remy is discovered poking around in the kitchen, he’s thrown out.
But the kindly garbage boy, Linguini, takes pity on Remy. As it turns out, Linguini would love to be a chef too, but he has no talent for cooking. So the pair hatches a plan in which Remy will stow away inside Linguini’s clothes and secretly tell him how to make the most wonderful dishes.
Meanwhile, Remy’s family wishes he would just give up his dream of being a chef and live like all of the other rats, off a big, yummy, pile of garbage.
Ratatouille opens June 29.