quick post

[quietann]

Ratatouille is a fabulous, fun movie! It's well worth seeing, even if you don't like rats so much. Anyone who's been a chef or worked in a restaurant will be amused by it, so long as rats in the kitchen don't cause too much of a squick. The rats are amazingly realistic for Pixar creations; they act very "rat-like" and physically, the only major modifications they have are human-like teeth, and opposable thumbs (very dangerous on a rat!) There is also one fabulous double-entendre scene; I think all the kids in the audience wondered why the adults were all laughing so hard.

There was something else I was going to say, but I am too tired to remember it. nighty-night!

Comments

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

"the only major modifications they have are ..."

And even though all of the rats with speaking roles are male, on screen they have female bodies (they lack certain obvious male attributes).

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

as is the case with 99.9% of animations

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. But rats are especially, um, notorious in the balls department. I've had customers ask me if their boys had a tumor! (Reproductive strategy of male rat: there may be an in-heat female in the vicinity at any moment. Mount her, and be prepared to mount her, or a different female, within a minute. Repeat up to 200 times in one night. That requires a LOT of sperm, hence the huge balls.)

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

That requires a LOT of spam, hence the huge balls:)

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

From: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/trivia

"Several changes to the design of the rats (primarily the nose and ears) were made after Debbie Ducommun, a rat expert, brought down several of her personal pets for the art and animation departments to observe."

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I don't care for real rats all that much (my only contact having been with the feral variety -- I've seen the pictures of yours, and that's *different*), but the movie was adorably cute and hysterically funny.

And the animation [sigh]. Will Pixar ever quit outdoing themselves?