yes, lifted was great! ratatouille was great too, crazy CG… pixar is scary! yeah ratatouille is for an older audience, i guess.

umm yeah we’ll see how this gig goes. i may be talking a few octaves higher after working in hollywood, hmmm.….….….….….

hope to visit you guys soon

I enjoyed Ratatouille too, but I don’t think I’ll be taking my 5 year old to see it. It’s way too long and, frankly, I don’t think she’d enjoy it very much.

I LOVED the short that played before the film, “Lifted”. Sometimes I’d rather just see a string of 5–6 Pixar shorts over the feature length movie. But that’s just me…

just moved into an apartment in culver city l.a. today. it’s strange place here…

i really enjoyed this one as well.… i’m in l.a. now. got here 3 weeks ago… working on some hollywood shiets… hehe i wanna visit s.f. sometime though…

Jose, I wonder what pixar will do to top this one?

In terms of cooking I’ve been enjoying America’s Test Kitchen and the magazine that goes along with it: Cook’s Illustrated. Definitely not a great chef by any means but with a good recipie and patience, I do agree that “anyone can cook.”

Overall I would say it definitely played a bit more to the adult audience than other Pixar films. Several times I found myself chuckling at a joke and then chuckling again when I realized that because I was older than half the audience I was one of the 50% who laughed because I actually understood it.

I enjoyed the movie and it was a great way to spend a relaxing afternoon with the wife.

Glad you liked the film, also. I think it will stand the test of time as do many of the Pixar films.

I was a little disappointed with the female Chef though. Her accent was supposed to be French, but sounded like a 1/3 Latino, 1/3 African America, and 1/3 rich white chick. Why couldn’t they just hire a ‘real’ French person to do the voice instead of Janeane Garofalo ?

My only fault with it is in seeing the late show so I couldn’t go out to eat some fine cuisine afterwards.

I really like how they tied the plot together.

Heck — only Apple computer has set such high hopes with a reputation for quality in its hit products year after year. It almost makes me think the same guy is in charge… wait a second.

I’ve observed various reviews skewing one way or the other (the critics skew hugely positive, while actual, ordinary people reviews echo your sentiment). It seems to depend on if the reviewer considers computer animation (and animation in general) as appealing largely to children. This is the first Pixar film that I felt broke with the kids movie feeling, which I think is a big improvement.

I think Ratatouille fares even better when one moves away from Pixar movies in general, and I think about the rental-only suitable CGI titles that have been made recently (Happy Feet? Bees? Shrek III? David Schwimmer as a giraffe in that Zoo film?). I’d sooner watch Ratatouille (or any Pixar film) a second or possibly a third time. In that regard, I feel that all the Pixar films are classics, and they really only suffer in comparison to one another.