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The eighth computer animated film by [[Pixar]], '''''Ratatouille''''' is about a rat named Rémy who has a highly developed sense of taste and smell. Dissatisfied with eating garbage like the rest of his family, he wants to become a chef. When he winds up in Paris, he gets his chance to cook at the restaurant founded by his idol, Auguste Gusteau, by making a deal with the restaurant's garbage boy, Linguini, who (thanks to Rémy's interference) has been mistaken for a cooking genius. Rémy guides Linguini in the kitchen in a puppet-like manner so that Linguini doesn't lose his job, while Rémy gets the cooking experience (and critical fame) he desires.
For information on the preceding short ''Lifted'' or the follow-up short ''Your Friend the Rat'', see the [[Pixar Shorts]] page.
For the infamous [[The Mockbuster|Mockbuster]] equivalent, see ''[[Ratatoing]]''.
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Colette hits Linguini in the face on several occasions when she is upset with him. He never complains and she is still presented as completely sympathetic throughout the film. See also Slap-Slap-Kiss further down.
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Deconstructed in the most pleasant way ever. Ego's review isn't just a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], but it actually changed people's opinions about critics, showing that some can be more than complete assholes who like to [[Caustic Critic|complain just for the fun of it]].
* [[Accidental Kiss]]: Tugging on Linguini's hair while he's babbling to Colette causes him to dive forward and kiss her. Despite this not being what Rémy was aiming for, it stops Linguini from revealing their secret.
* [[Adorkable]]: A majority of Linguini's scenes is this trope.
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Skinner's lawyer, after proving that the young Linguini is the rightful heir to Gusteau's restaurant, is perfectly happy to advise his client of how to cheat the boy out of his inheritance.
* [[Angel Face, Demon Face]]: Ego looks cadaverous and evil until the very end of the film, where he appears to have gained some weight and lost his ghastly pallor; this could be explained by him eating well on a regular basis and generally being happier.
* [[Angrish]]: Linguini after Rémy has bitten him multiple times.
* [[Animals Lack Attributes]]: Here's some fun trivia the kids might not want to know: {{spoiler|Male rats have huge testicles}}. Aren't you glad they didn't add it into the film?
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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Using a shotgun to kill rats. You will make it pretty clear that you are a [[Badass Grandma]] and you will completely ruin the rats' day, but you'll be lucky to hit even one of the rats and the collateral damage will be disastrous.
* [[Be Yourself]]: A major theme in the movie, although it is mildly subverted because Linguini and Rémy only reach success in the first place because they are basically each other.
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* [[Big Bad]]: Anton Ego. His review is so negative that it accidentally killed Gusteau. His evil plan is to dine at Gusteau's restaurant.
* [[Big Eater]]: Émile. Oh dear God, ''Émile''. Could probably qualify as a [[Fat Bastard]] in some interpretations.
* [[Big Good]]: Auguste Gusteau.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Done by the rats to both Skinner and a health inspector near the end of the movie to get them out of the way, if only temporarily.
* [[Brandishment Bluff]]: [[Multiple Choice Past|One of the stories]] Horst tells of why he was in prison is that he once "held up the second biggest bank in France using only a ball-point pen."
* [[Buffy
** "Appetite is coming and he's going to have a big ego! I mean Ego! He's coming! And he's going to order! Something... from our menu! And we're going to have to cook it!"
** "And don't forget to stress its ''Linguini-ness''."
** And a mushroom zapped by lightning creates a taste that's "lightningy".
* [[Caustic Critic]]: Anton Ego and he lampshades the hell out of it in his final review.
* [[Chekhov's Gag]]: "I killed a man. With ''this''... thumb."
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Linguini uses his rollerskating skill to become an incredibly fast waiter.
* [[Cleopatra Nose]]: Colette.
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* [[Crashing Dreams]]
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: It's a Pixar movie!
* [[Cursed
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Anton Ego. For a good 3/4 of the movie, he's this trope incarnate:
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'''Servant''': "No..."
'''Anton Ego''': "More financial trouble?"
'''Servant''': "No, it's..."
'''Anton Ego''': "...announced a new line of microwave egg rolls, what? Spit it out!" }}
** Rémy counts when he talks. When he's around Linguini and the other humans, he's more of a [[Silent Snarker]].
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Colette's initial attitude towards Linguini comes off as rather... hostile, but she becomes much mellower towards him as their relationship develops.
* [[Distracted
** If you look closely, you can see that this is what caused him to spill the soup in the beginning, setting the whole plot into motion.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [[media:
** Anton Ego's office, where he has consigned many a chef to infamy, is shaped like a coffin; also, his typewriter resembles a skull. Ego himself was designed after a vulture.
*** The title of his column is given at the very beginning of the film: "The Grim Eater".
** Skinner is based on the French star comedian [[
* [[The Dragon]]: Chef Skinner becomes this to Ego.
* [[Dropping the Bombshell]]: Skinner reveals during a discussion with his lawyer that he is paranoid about the rat, thinking Linguine is trying to psyche him out. Skinner's lawyer notes that he had to take a second sample of Linguine's hair. When Skinner asks why, the lawyer says:
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* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Ego drops his pen when he first tastes Rémy's ratatouille.
* [[Early
* [[Escape Convenient Boat]]: Rémy attempts this twice; it doesn't work the first time, but does the second.
* [[Even the Rats Won't Touch It]]: Linguini's attempt at soup, quite literally. Rémy catches a whiff of it and ''chokes''
* [[Evil All Along]]: At the film's climax, Skinner reveals his secret to Linguini{{spoiler| that he works for Ego}}.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: For the better, perhaps. The film's original director, Jan Pinkava, was replaced with Brad Bird after Pinkava was unable to come up with a satisfactory resolution to the story. Bird, who had won an Oscar for his work on ''[[
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: After Linguini forces him to step down as owner of the restaurant, Skinner is hired as [[Big Bad|Anton Ego]]'s henchman and teams up with him to dine at the restaurant.
* [[Face Palm]]: Colette while Ego is observing the kitchen in Gusteau's after his meal.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: [[
** Lou Romano as Linguini, who is half-French, half-most likely Italian (he's named after a pasta and his mother's name was Renata). Romano is American.
* [[Foil]]: Rémy is a talented chef who's determined to break free of the norm; Linguini is horrible at cooking and has no ambitions greater than holding a steady job.
** As pointed out in the [[Technician Versus Performer]] section, Colette is a by-the-book chef while Rémy loves experimenting. Interestingly, they both hold Gusteau in high regard, but take different interpretations of his advice while adhering to his most cherished belief: anyone can cook.
* [[French Cuisine Is Haughty]]: ''
** ''
* [[Food Porn]]: The filmmakers took extra care to make sure the food was (obviously) delicious-looking.
* [[Gay Paree]]: The film takes place in Paris, France.
* [[George Jetson Job Security]]
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** "One can get ''too'' familiar with vegetables, you know!" may qualify, depending on your level of guttermindedness while watching the film.
** There's also the little bit after Linguini unbuttons his uniform to reveal [[Not What It Looks Like|Rémy's bite marks]].
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** Linguini and Rémy have pretty naughty mouths... As Rémy is biting Linguini you can catch the latter saying "Son of a--". During the car breakout scene you can hear Rémy saying "What the--".
** When Linguini tries to confess to Colette about Rémy (until Rémy forces him to kiss her) he says something along the lines of "I have a little uhhh--". Cue Colette briefly glancing down, as though she thought he was referring to [[Teeny Weenie|a different]] dirty little secret.
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** There's the scene where Linguini slowly looks Colette up and down from behind, [[Male Gaze|starting low]], followed by Colette reciprocating.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: In one scene, Linguini is hinted to be wearing boxers with the logo of [[The Incredibles|a certain other film by Pixar]] imprinted on them.
* [[Head Pet]]: Rémy, while technically not a pet, rides on top of Linguini's head to control him while cooking since the chef's hat hides him from sight.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Anton Ego, near the end of the movie. After tasting the Ratatouille, he betrays Skinner by arresting him for his crimes.
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Linguini is one.
* [[Hot
* [[Humans Are
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: Unlike Rémy's father (directly above), Rémy believes the humans are just ignorant, seeing that rats have traditionally been pests, anyway.
** If you were part of that kitchen staff and found your star chef had kept a ''wild rat'' on his head during his entire tenure, wouldn't you quit on the spot?
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: ''Technically'', Rémy has one of these in Linguini.
** Perhaps closer to a [[Mobile Suit Human]].
* [[I'll Kill You!]]
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* [[Imaginary Friend]]: The Gusteau who floats beside Remy when he wants or needs someone to talk to. Vanished for good when Remy realizes he doesn't ''need'' Gusteau anymore.
* [[Impairment Shot]]: We get the blinking eye shot from Linguini's perspective as Rémy tries to wake him.
* [[Impossibly Delicious Food]]: Rémy's ratatouille is so good that Ego freezes with wonder at the first bite.
* [[Jerkass]]: Skinner. Anton Ego [[Character Development|at the beginning]].
* [[Knife Nut]]: Colette pins Linguini's sleeve to a chopping board with three huge knives whilst explaining to him how difficult it was for her to get to where she was. And if the knives aren't enough, there's [[Slasher Smile|her smile]] when she warns Linguini not to mess up. She's most definitely a knife nut.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: When Rémy first experiments on pulling hairs to control Linguini, he comments "That's strangely involuntary!"
* [[Large and In Charge]]: Subverted; Skinner is in charge of a restaurant where all of his employees are about twice his height. Then it's double subverted when you realize that his predecessor was Gusteau, whom we could safely assume to have been the largest person in the room.
* [[Large Ham]]: Ego is an unusual form of Ham, bringing something of an understated [[Pantomime]] Villain [[A Worldwide Punomenon|flavour]] to the proceedings.
** Skinner too, of course.
* [[Last
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Judging from Rémy gagging at the mere ''smell'' of Linguini's improvised soup, this is how he cooks without the rat's help.
** Not to mention when Linguini himself took a testing taste of said soup earlier... and immediately ran to the window to lose his lunch.
** Also, rats are physically incapable of vomiting, so the soup must be ''that bad'' to make Rémy gag.
*** Considering some of the things Remy's brother and father eat, he has to be used to really bad
* [[Male Gaze]]: In a ''PIXAR'' movie, never the less!
** Hey, it ''is'' set in France, so it could have been ''way'' worse.
* [[Marionette Motion]]: Remy's control of Linguini.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: While they mention several times that Gusteau is a figment of Remy's imagination, he also tells Remy several things that Remy couldn't possibly know.
* [[
** When does it ever say his age? He looks more in his early 20s.
** Given the age some [[Real Life]] chefs started in the business, it is entirely possible that Colette is barely into her twenties.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Alfredo Linguini, a kind of pasta.
** Also, Skinner (named after scientist B. F. Skinner, who performed [
** "Auguste Gusteau" translates into "majestic palette", and "gusto" is related to words referring to the sense of taste or appetite (IE "gustatory"). A man with a sense of taste befitting royalty? He might just make a good chef.
** {{spoiler|'''Ratatouille''' initially seems to be used merely as a double meaning title; however, it later carries significance as the meal that impresses Ego despite it's "peasant dish" status.}}
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* [[Missing Mom]]: Along with a general lack of female parts in the movie, Linguini's mother is recently dead and Remy's is never mentioned at all.
* [[Mister Exposition]]: I know what the will stipulates!
* [[The Mockbuster]]: The infamous ''[[So Bad
* [[Motion Capture]]: Averted. In the credits there's a logo that says: "100% pure animation! No motion capture used!" (A bit of a [[Take That]], perhaps.)
* [[Monumental View]]: Linguini's apartment has a magnificent view of the Eiffel tower.
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Horst.
*
* [[My Car Hates Me]]: Happens to the health inspector.
* [[National Stereotypes]]: Virtually all French stereotypes make cameos here. Almost all are affectionate, however.
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** Look carefully, and you'll spot [[Enemy Mime|Bomb Voyage]] from ''[[The Incredibles]]'' on a street corner. Here, he's not so villainous: just a regular old French mime.
*** [[What Do You Mean
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Horst tells a different version of how he got arrested anytime he's asked.
* [[Not Even Bothering
** [[Your Mileage May Vary|Votre opinion peut varier.]] - Just because the ''name'' is Italian doesn't mean the ''character'' necessarily is; since it's never actually stated where he's from, it's possible that Linguini is American.
** And Anton Ego, voiced by the very British, and very not-trying-to-hide-his-accent, Peter O'Toole. Though Ego could be British himself.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: When Linguini is about to reveal Rémy to Colette, Rémy forces Linguini to kiss her. Colette (understandably) pulls a can of mace on him and his half-terrified (the mace), half-ecstatic (the kiss) look is an animation feat.
** Both Skinner and the health inspector get a moment after barging in the kitchen and seeing all the rats.
* [[Once Killed a Man
** Actually, Skinner got ''thrown outside''. [[What Do You Mean
* [[On One Condition]]: Had Linguini not claimed the inheritance his father left him within the first two years after Gusteau's death, Skinner would have inherited the restaurant.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Rémy's mother was written out of the movie, Linguini's mother had recently died and his dad was {{spoiler|Gusteau}}, who had also died a few years before. Although Rémy's separation with his father is a plot point, it's not quite the [[Tear Jerker]] of [[An American Tail|that other movie where a rodent is separated from his father]].
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*** And in the second [[Discworld]] adventure game, which expanded upon the rodent-name food puns (like vole-au-vents).
* [[Reality Ensues]]: See the trope page.
* [[Reassignment Backfire]]: Skinner, trying to get Linguini kicked out of the kitchen, gives him the task of cooking a recipe that Gusteau himself said was a disaster. To his shock, Rémy quickly fixes the recipe to the point where it is so delicious that everyone else in the restaurant wants it, running the cooks ragged to keep up with orders and convincing everyone else in the kitchen that Linguini is a master chef.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Linguini discovers an unusually intelligent rat who not only knows how to cook delicious gourmet food, but even ''washes his hands'' before doing so. Instead of alerting scientists on this incredible find and possibly become famous for it, he just keeps it secret and lets it make food for him.
** Though Rémy probably wouldn't be too keen on that plan and Linguini isn't a jerk like that. Letting Rémy set him up as a prodigy cook in a high-profile restaurant was probably the most beneficial scenario for the both of them.
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*** It's also a taxidermist, thus explaining the trophies in the window.
*** Almost indistinguishable, but in the beginning when Remy ends up on the floor of the restaurant under the counters while hiding, there are tiny bits of food on the floor with him. They went to the trouble of ''detailing the crumbs on the floor that hadn't been completely cleared''.
* [[Self
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: The producers got authentic Culinary [[Badass]] [
** They also actually cooked some of the recipes used in the movie themselves, so that they could accurately render how foodstuffs look and react when being prepared via various cooking techniques.
** The ratatouille variant that Rémy prepares for Ego at the end was invented for the film; Chef Keller was asked what he would do if a critic like Ego were to suddenly enter his restaurant and, in a moment of inspiration, created the dish.
** If one looks closely, one can see that the chefs have small burn scars on the underside of their forearms. Some real life chefs also have these, from accidentally touching hot pans while cooking.
** One of the animators jumped into a pool wearing a chef's uniform, so they could accurately render what such a uniform would look like soaking wet.
* [[Shout
** Possibly Colette herself: her last name is "Tautou", like the actress of ''[[Amelie|Amélie]]''.
*** And Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, mostly known by her family name, is a famous French author.
** The Health Inspector looks suspiciously like [[The Pink Panther|Inspector Clouseau]]
** Ego's [[Flash Back]] is very similar to the famous madeleine scene from Proust's ''À la recherche du temps perdu''.
** The first thing Skinner says to Linguini on his first day as an official chef is [[
** The scene with the various Gusteau cutouts. One of them sounds like [[Looney Tunes|a certain rooster]].
** Not to mention that [[Code Lyoko|some of the loop group of Paris]] worked on this film. (Cue the end credits)
** Emile also looks and acts a lot like [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Gus]].
** During the scene where the clan helps Remy cook, he orders a steak really tenderized. The brawniest rat in the clan [[Rocky (
* [[Significant Anagram]]/[[Repetitive Name]]: Auguste ↔ Gusteau.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Rémy briefly witnesses a particularly extreme (though plot-irrelevant) one - the woman is pointing a gun at the man and threatening to shoot him. Rémy keeps running, but after a shot is fired into the ceiling near him, he does a [[Double Take]] and runs back - they're now kissing.
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* [[Slow Motion Drop]]: When Anton Ego drops his pen after one taste of Rémy's ratatouille.
* [[Soap Within a Show]]: A bizarre French soap opera appears on Linguini's TV
* [[So My Kids Can Watch]]: [[Patton Oswalt]]'s standup routine not only quite vulgar, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|but filled with]] [[Genius Bonus|obscure, nerdy references]] and not appropriate at all for kids. He has one routine about how, in the press tour for this movie, he had a lot of trouble being positive and friendly in front of his audience. Although the man does do quite a lot of voice-work for many other lower-profile kid-friendly projects, so it was probably more about the required constant promotion of the film.
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Rémy, desperate to talk to someone, imagines up Auguste Gusteau. Rémy is fully aware that Gusteau is a figment of his imagination and he disappears when Rémy realizes he can rely on his own judgment.
* [[Spit Take]]: Subverted. Ego ''starts'' one when he hears that Gusteau's is "popular" again, but pauses to check the label and decides his wine is too good to waste in such a fashion.
** [[Parental Bonus]] moment: That's a real wine, and ''far'' too good to spit out like that.
* [[Stick
* [[Straw Critic]]: Subverted. Ego is extremely hard to please, but his high standards are sincere, and when confronted with true culinary genius he recognizes and supports it, even when doing so jeopardizes his career.
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Colette is very much aware that she is the only female chef in the restaurant and is a definite minority in the profession in general. She was forced to claw her way up and as a result feels that she has to be tough and defensive to succeed in a career she worked so hard for.
* [[The Speechless]]: Rémy, a rat, is unable to communicate with Linguini, a human, throughout the whole film. The only time he speaks is to members of his own kind and to the audience (we can assume that this is [[Translation Convention]] at work), though technically the whole movie is him recounting how he got to where he is to a group of rats.
* [[Take That]]: Some have seen Skinner's use of Gusteau's imagery as just a ''wee'' bit of a dig by Pixar at [[Walt Disney|their distributor?]] A derivative, uncreative sellout plastering the image of a beloved, deceased innovator all over his less-inspired creations and a whole slew of cheap, worthless products? Ring any bells? <ref>It's worth noting that [[Reality Subtext|this film was being made during difficult contract negotiations]], so...</ref>
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: Some people have taken Ego's review to be an attack on the incredible willingness of critics to tear things apart for no good reason.
* [[Technician Versus Performer]]: Colette is a Technician, and Remy (controlling Linguini) is all Performer, and they both need to balance their game.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich]]: Poor Remy never really finishes any meal he makes, notably the "lightningy-cheese-mussroom-saffron" recipe from the beginning of the film, or when Linguini snatches him away from his omelette while rushing for work. Lampshaded and finally averted when Linguini notices how dazed he looking and gives him a piece of cheese.
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* [[Truth in Television]]: The rants Colette gives to Linguini regarding what it takes to be an effective and successful chef could have come, word for word, from any chef in the world who has ever had to take a brand new cook in hand and change him from a kitchen-halting speedbump into a frictionless part of the kitchen machine. And given the participation of Chef Thomas Keller in this movie, they most likely did.
* [[Tsundere]]: Colette.
* [[Viewers
** Although since the most popularly taught second language in the UK is French (also the country's closest neighbour) as opposed to the USA's Spanish, it kind of makes sense that the creators would presume more UK viewers wouldn't need the text translating for them.
** Also, Gusteau's is called a five-star restaurant, rather than having to explain that for élite restaurants (e.g. Michelin Guide) the highest rating is three stars (almost all restaurants would get zero stars).
*** Also not really a case of assuming viewers are morons, and more a case of simple knowledge that the Michelin Guide rating system is not as well-known in America.
* [[Villainy
* [[Visual Pun]]: Skinner's humiliating ousting from the restaurant and subsequent creepy determination to prove that a rat is involved somehow ends up driving him in Seine.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Linguini does this out a window after a brief taste of his own soup... before Remy fixes it.
* [[Welcome to Hell]]: Shown in a nightmare.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: It's unknown what happened to Skinner by the end of the movie. The last we see of him is him being thrown into the pantry by Rémy's rodent chefs tied and gagged.
▲* ~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~: Just about everything Ego says {{spoiler|before getting an excellent meal from Rémy.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Lampshaded. Rémy's major struggle is the fact that humans think rats are gross; the movie shows them as just mischievous and self-interested at worst.
▲{{quote| "STOP THAT SOUP"!}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[What
* [[When Elders Attack]]: a crazy old woman tried to shoot the rats with a shotgun, but completely and utterly failed.
* [[X
* [[Yank the
* [[You Dirty Rat]]: Averted. Literally and metaphorically since Remy's seen washing his hands, and even uses a Dish washer to wash loads of them {{spoiler|when he asks for their help in cooking meals in the kitchen.}}
** Played with; when Skinner catches Linguini cooking he begins to call him something like "You dirty--," then notices Rémy and screams "RAT!"
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