When's wall*e coming to India?

Hmm .. in the last sem, there were great movies that I watched, and then good movies, passable movies, telugu movies and there was 10,000BC. But one movie stood out among them all. A soft french movie which tugs at your heart strings. 'Ratatouille' (rat-a-too-ee, the french have a weird way of spelling things). Animated movies - most of the them (with the the exception of Lion King, Antz and shrek) are childish. Even the three mentioned have rather subdued climaxes. Until this, I considered this genre 'funny' at best and never close to the 'moving stuff'. This movie changed that once and for all, and now seeing the review WALL*E's getting, 'funny' will most surely get changed to 'satisfying'.

The movie is based on an ace chef, Gusteau's principle "Anybody with enough zeal and desire can cook (and thus succeed)". Remy, a french country rat with great taste for fine food and a knack of combining flavours gets blown away to Paris due to a twist of luck. There, he gets into a really unexpected relationship with a young cleaner in Gusteau's restaurant, Linguini. Together they overcome their natural shortcomings, dish out magical recipes and taste success. The movie's high point is definitely the food critic, Ego. A man, who holds utmost dislike for Gusteau's morals, visits Linguini for making his report. The scene and the narration that follows is arguably one of the best in animated film history. It moves you and if you listen to it with an open mind, one shall discover a really profound meaning.

If The Incredibles earned Brad Bird a good reputation, this one will firmly establish it in the reamls of the greats. The movie is visually bright and the colors used are soft and easy on the eye. The humour is light and enjoyable. The best aspect of this movie are the charatcers itself. A loser that everybody likes in the form of Linguini, a scheming boss that people could associate with (not me though, :P), a sensible lady love who isn't the perfect beauty attainable only by the tom cruise's and a chef with a cheery disposition. If one can bring oneself not to like this movie, the person gotta be a retard. There shouldn't be a need to mention that this movie won the oscar for the Best Animated Feature Film, but as it's a review there you go. All in all, I enjoyed the movie thoroughly.

Ratatouille is a classic from Pixar.