Kai, The Informologist

(via NY Times Review)

Following the footsteps of several mega-box-office-hit animations, we can now expect at least 2 to 3 animations per year. And no, not all of them are as fun or memorable as stories like Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, or Cars, most of them are just animations. And that’s the problem – after a series of animation craze years, just like how Atari-owned Warner Bros caused a near collapse to the video games industry, consumers including myself are starting to feel numb towards the cutesy animations. Even though I have been a fan of Pixar’s animations, the thought of a rat being funny or the movie being of any profound value didn’t hit me.

So I didn’t watch it in the theaters, and even when my roommate’s girlfriend got a copy of it from Netflix, I wasn’t too crazy over it and didn’t bother to ask them for it. But to demonstrate the use of $1 per day DVD rental at Kroger, I checked out Ratatouille. And last night, I watched it.

I know my words are not those of Ego in the movie, but I still want to say that, it is a great movie.

I was impressed by the way it was started, then the way the water was animated. Every detail of Remy was paid specific attention. I like how the artist gave him emotion that can be related to that f real-life rats. While there wasn’t a profound meaning behind the movie (such as stop over-fishing with ‘Happy Feet’), the DVD does include a short animation with some history of rats and how we (human) should stop poaching them, because they didn’t cause the Black Death. Finally, the music totally topped it off. And there’s no way for a music illiteracy to describe it, you just have to watch it and let yourself be immersed in it.