Ratatouille: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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?

* [[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."

** "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''."

* [[Distracted By the Sexy]]: Linguini with Colette, much to Rémy's chagrin.

** 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.

** 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".

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: ''Technically'', Rémy has one of these in Linguini.

** Perhaps closer to a [[Mobile Suit Human]].

{{quote| '''Colette''': ''(sweetly)'' "I'll make this easy to remember: Keep your station clear OR I WILL KILL YOU!"}}

* [[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.

** Hey, it ''is'' set in France, so it could have been ''way'' worse.

* [[Marionette Motion]]: Remy's control of Linguini.

** 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.

* [[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!

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Colette:''' "We hate to be rude... but we're French. So long!"}}

** 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.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Horst tells a different version of how he got arrested anytime he's asked.

* [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: Everyone except Linguini and the rats speak in French accents, save for a German and a Jamaican chef. Given his name, Linguini is probably Italian, but speaks with no such accent.

** Both Skinner and the health inspector get a moment after barging in the kitchen and seeing all the rats.

* [[Once Killed a Man With A Noodle Implement]]: One of the chefs at Gusteau's is said to have served time in prison, but [[Multiple Choice Past|he never tells the same story about why he went to jail twice]]. One of his claims is that he "killed a man...with ''this thumb!''"; we never know for sure, but simply showing ''that thumb'' to Skinner is enough to scare him off.

* [[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]].

*** 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''.

{{quote| '''Ego:''' "The bitter truth that we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."}}

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The producers got authentic Culinary [[Badass]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keller Thomas Keller], acknowledged by damned near all other professional chefs to be the greatest American chef alive right now, who owns and runs several high quality restaurants (he's the only chef in America to earn a three-star rating for ''two separate restaurants'') and is the author of ''several'' high-caliber cook books, to show how the craft works, and used Colette's [[Truth in Television|mentoring montage]] to show that research off. That sequences serves not only to establish verisimilitude in that story, but also to develop Colette's character and encourage the heroes' and the audience's respect for her.

* [[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

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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).

* ~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~: Just about everything Ego says {{spoiler|before getting an excellent meal from Rémy.}}

{{quote| "STOP THAT SOUP"!}}

* [[When Elders Attack]]: a crazy old woman tried to shoot the rats with a shotgun, but completely and utterly failed.

* [[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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