Monday, July 02, 2007

Ratatouille

I took Eli 5.11 to see Ratatouille this afternoon, and it's brilliant. The last animated film I saw that was this good was The Triplets of Belleville, and that was over three years ago.

Ratatouille is tremendously imaginative, very funny, and very warm. It looks spectacular, of course, but it has that special quality that was utterly lacking in Cars, and that special quality permeates the entire film.

After The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille, Brad Bird is clearly the best writer/director of feature length animated films in the last fifty years. Maybe ever.

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