Ratatouille
Aug. 19th, 2007 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunsen_hA few weeks ago, Cheflad gave a very positive recommendation of the movie Ratatouille. (I don't think I'd even been aware that there was a new Pixar movie out -- I didn't go to see Cars.) He mentioned that it was very realistic in a lot of ways; in particular, he knew most of the characters from various restaurant kitchens he'd worked in.
I finally went to see it yesterday. Strong positive reaction from me, too -- that was fun. I needed that. Good characters, nice work with the dialogue. Up to Pixar's usual standards. It's a nice story about, among other things, overcoming prejudices; some of the antagonists learn better and mend their ways. The short animation at the beginning, "Lifted", was laugh-out-loud funny, too.
On the technical side, the Pixar people still have some work to do on their animation of viscous liquids -- some of the food-preparation things didn't work as well as they might have. And their wine appeared to be zero-alcohol. But other liquids worked very well, and they've got things like water spray just about perfect. Their rendering of hair is much better than before, and they've done a fine job on wet hair (which didn't look very realistic in The Incredibles).
I finally went to see it yesterday. Strong positive reaction from me, too -- that was fun. I needed that. Good characters, nice work with the dialogue. Up to Pixar's usual standards. It's a nice story about, among other things, overcoming prejudices; some of the antagonists learn better and mend their ways. The short animation at the beginning, "Lifted", was laugh-out-loud funny, too.
On the technical side, the Pixar people still have some work to do on their animation of viscous liquids -- some of the food-preparation things didn't work as well as they might have. And their wine appeared to be zero-alcohol. But other liquids worked very well, and they've got things like water spray just about perfect. Their rendering of hair is much better than before, and they've done a fine job on wet hair (which didn't look very realistic in The Incredibles).
