When Remy notices the restaurant's garbage boy, Alfredo Linguini, attempting to fix a soup he ruined, he jumps in and fixes Linguini's mistakes. He goes down the drain and encouraged by an imaginary Gusteau, eventually finds himself above the kitchen of Gusteau's Restaurant in Paris. The rats are forced to flee, and Remy is separated from the others. One day, while scavenging the house for ingredients, Remy and Р“вЂ°mile accidentally reveal the colony to the woman. The rats live in the attic of an elderly woman's house. However, the rest of his colony, including his brother Р“вЂ°mile and his father the clan leader Django, are interested in food only for sustenance. Remy, a young rat with a perfect sense of taste and smell, dreams of becoming a chef like his idol, the late Auguste Gusteau.

Ratatouille was later voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures of the 21st century by a 2016 poll of international critics conducted by the BBC.

It also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for several more, including Best Original Screenplay. The film grossed $623.7 million and received widespread critical acclaim for its screenplay, animation, voice performances, and Michael Giacchino's score. Ratatouille premiered on June 22, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California, with its general release June 29, 2007, in the United States. Michael Giacchino composed the Paris-inspired music for the film. Lewis interned at Thomas Keller's The French Laundry restaurant, where Keller developed the confit byaldi, a dish used in the film. To create the food animation used in the film, the crew consulted chefs from both France and the United States. Bird and some of the film's crew members also visited Paris for inspiration. In 2005, following Pinkava's departure from Pixar, Bird was approached to direct the film and revise the story. The development of Ratatouille began in 2000 when Pinkava wrote the original concepts of the film. The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as Remy, an anthropomorphic rat who is interested in cooking Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini, a young garbage boy who befriends Remy Ian Holm as Skinner, the head chef of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou, a rР“Т‘tisseur at Gusteau's restaurant and the staff's only female chef Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a restaurant critic Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy's father and leader of his clan Peter Sohn as Р“вЂ°mile, Remy's older brother and Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently deceased chef.

Set in Paris, the plot follows the rat named Remy, who dreams of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an alliance with a Parisian restaurant's garbage boy. The title refers to the French dish ratatouille, which is served at the end of the film, and also references the species of the main character, a rat. The eighth film produced by Pixar, it was written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005, and produced by Brad Lewis, from an original idea from Bird, Pinkava and Jim Capobianco. Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Ratatouille soundtrack music