Synopsis
Marcelle Toing, owner of the best restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, must go on missions to steal ingredients from human restaurants to keep his meals the best.
2007 Directed by Michelle Gabriel
Marcelle Toing, owner of the best restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, must go on missions to steal ingredients from human restaurants to keep his meals the best.
lots to love here! :)
-the exact same suiting up montage (all in front of a blank white background) shown three times in a 44-minute long movie
-everyone is shrill and yelling with voices like nails on chalkboards
-"YES DADDY I LOVE CHEDDAR"
-cat walk hind leg, look like frog
-all the lady rats are sexy -- thick thighs, ample tiddies. boy rats? they are shapeless blobs. thought "there's no way a single woman was involved in this production," only to discover afterwards that it is female-directed. suddenly, it's empowering!
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It was unironically better than Cars 2.
for my dear friend mia's birthday, we decided to have a little mini film fest featuring her favorite films. we gave her options of films we knew she loves: kill bill vol 1., the lobster, opening night, down with love, gone girl. i even managed to get a screener for nomadland and keep it a secret so that we could surprise her with the option to watch it. then, taking advantage of birthday law (which i mistakenly called 'prima nocta,' mistakenly invoking a long conversation about the ancient practice of prima nocta) she called an audible and decided to make us watch Ratatoing.
honestly? had a blast. cannot recommend enough you watch this with friends. can't get over an intricately detailed shoe appearing in a suit-up montage and then never again. you'd be shocked to learn that a few corners seem to have been cut in the production of Ratatoing.
I think the producers of this film are in this business for the wrong reasons!
Precisely.
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Keeping on trend with my interest in cartoon rip-offs and low budget world animation, Ratatoing was an important missing piece. The animation is stiff, but mostly ignorable. The dialogue insane. The breaks in sentences and repeated sentiments. I was totally stunned and amazed during the opening scene with the patrons ordering food and complimenting the chef. It was a purely alien experience that made me feel like I was made of plastic and I was now in the land of the plastic rats that are saying weird shit to me. Honestly, the rest of the movie isn't that bad except the bow legged cat. That is so not what cats, even cartoon cats, are shaped like.
Filled with shapes an sounds, so many shapes and sounds.
If I hear another movies are subjective argument again, I will strap you down and force you to watch this, Clockwork Orange style
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Last night I had a dream that I flew to see Marcelle from this movie even though I’ve only heard about it twice so naturally I had to watch it.
I watched it over discord with my youngest brother Gabe and during it he said “Sydney, if you don’t give this 5 stars, we aren’t sibling anymore.”
Somehow this film is blasphemous but also a spiritual experience.
"Vai para o Béléleu" - Maria
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Ratatoing is a Brazilian art house film produced by Martin Scorsese and Remi the rat from ratatouille (I believe he owns the production company ). This film inspired the Godfather, Taxi driver, citizen Kane and Vertigo so unsurprisingly it’s beautiful . Honestly Greg is one of the greatest characters in all of cinema and anytime he came on I got a raging erection. This film is a 10/10 however I have to subtract 9 of the score because the entire film is fucking awful and made we want to suffer cardiac arrest to end my suffering
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