“To watch Ratatouille is to recognize we’re living in another golden age of American animation.”
“Brad Bird wrote and directed Ratatouille and tops his previous work. Since his work includes The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, this puts him somewhere between Chuck Jones and Michelangelo.”
“If rival studios ever adopted Pixar’s story process for their films, there would be no need for critics due to the exceptional quality of the movies being made.”
I mean HOLY FUCK. Seriously, I thought the movie looked like Pixar’s first slip up. Now I’m looking to go watch it opening day with that kind of reviews. Pixar can do no wrong it seems. I read after Finding Nemo a lot of argument that we were experiencing a renaissance of animation comparable to the golden age and argument that the stories were better. I had to agree, Snow white can go fuck itself. Toy Story 2 was better.
Then the trailer for Wall-E is like, “Holy shit… they came up with all those movies like that?” You have to think that Pixar shits better movies than the best other studios produces.
With the exception of Cars, Pixar movies have been monumental triumphs all around. I haven’t heard a lot about Ratatouille until a couple weeks before it’s impending release, but now it looks freakin’ fantastic. And not all their movies were predicted to have such success either. Disney mob boss Eisner told investors to prepare for Pixar’s first flop with Finding Nemo. Then it becomes their biggest hit by far. At this rate, I don’t see any of their movies not becoming mega hits.
As with Cars, it made gobs of money but wasn’t as well received by critics as their other movies. I think the major problem was that the script creepily resembled “Doc Hollywood” way too much.
Disney made the smartest move ever when it purchased Pixar, otherwise they would have lost the studio and would most likely lack the power to create such mega blockbusters in an era when box office sales are as low as they’ve ever been.
And with all that rambling I mean to say, “Yay Pixar!” with some Arseneo-like whooping.
I never saw cars. Completely uninterested. I think it was the subject manner more then anything. Most their stuff has sort of transcended age, but cute talking cars are just a little too saccharine for me.
I’ve loved every thing else they did, and had no idea Brad Bird was doing Ratatouille. The Incredibles and The Iron Giant are two of my all time favorite animated movies.
Of all things, a movie about a cooking rat… I hadn’t even heard of this film until I saw a preview before Pirates 3. I loved the Incredibles, and earlier Pixar films, but Cars and this one don’t appeal to me. They’re just meh. But maybe that’s just me.
Conspiracy theory time: Disney buying off critics?
On a side note, there is but one movie hotness of the summer for me: Transformers. It mustn’t suck. It can’t suck. It’s impossible to suck. It’s got Peter Cullen and the “ree-row-raw-row-reet” sound. Nothing beats giant fucking robots.
Don’t you guys fucking dare macerate a Pixar discussion into Transformers. The aesthetics of Micheal Bay offends my undying soul. Pixar’s treatment of talking cars, no matter how stylized some how looks more plausible than this shit.
But anyways… going back on topic, I’m not saying the Ratatoo-er…however you say it, I don’t feel like looking it up… is bad, it’ll probably turn out fine. I’m just rather surprised that’s there’s been so very little advertising for the film. I’ve not seen any commercials for it on TV, and only the 1 theater preview. It could just be bad timing on my part, but for a Pixar film I would’ve expected the over the top Disney treatment for getting word out to audiences. Maybe Disney doesn’t want so much to be involved in this film. Could be why it’s doing so well among critics? However it premieres this coming weekend along with Bruce Willis with Transformers and Harry Pothead to follow next. In my opinion they should’ve waited a little bit or released it in earlier June. There was nothing worth seeing in early June.
But anyways… going back on topic, I’m not saying the Ratatoo-er…however you say it, I don’t feel like looking it up… is bad, it’ll probably turn out fine. I’m just rather surprised that’s there’s been so very little advertising for the film. I’ve not seen any commercials for it on TV, and only the 1 theater preview. It could just be bad timing on my part, but for a Pixar film I would’ve expected the over the top Disney treatment for getting word out to audiences. Maybe Disney doesn’t want so much to be involved in this film. Could be why it’s doing so well among critics? However it premieres this coming weekend along with Bruce Willis with Transformers and Harry Pothead to follow next. In my opinion they should’ve waited a little bit or released it in earlier June. There was nothing worth seeing in early June.
Ya putting it against Harry Potter isn’t too smart. I’m sure it’ll do fine though.
