Ratatouille: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].

* [[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.

** 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 Skill]]: Linguini uses his rollerskating skill to become an incredibly fast waiter.

* [[Cleopatra Nose]]: Colette.

** 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.

** 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:loiseau_2833.jpg|Chef Bernard Loiseau]] [[media:6696390_6355.jpg|(who sold frozen food under his name too)]] committed suicide in 2003, soon after he lost a star. It's admitted he lost it because of a violent critique.

* [[Fake Nationality]]: [[Janeane Garofalo]] as Colette, [[Brad Garrett]] as Gusteau, and Ian Holm as Skinner. None of them are French.

** 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.

** 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.

* [[Gay Paree]]: The film takes place in Paris, France.

* [[George Jetson Job Security]]

** 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.

* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Linguini is one.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Colette <s>arguably</s> qualifies.

* [[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]].

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

* [[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]].

* [[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.

*** 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.

* [[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.

*** 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]] [[wikipedia: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.

* [[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).

* [[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.