This Film Review was contributed by Grishma Shah. Grishma is a key members of team Blue Print.
"Animation's ability to instantly dissolve the representational into the abstract, to leap associatively with ease, and to render simultaneously a flood of images, perceptions, and perspectives, makes it an unparalleled form of cinema"
- Tom McSorely
In a medium as free and as flexible as the drawn film, the field for experiment is endless, and it is through keeping alive this sense of experiment that animation could avoid some of the stereotyped repetitions of established forms of design and technique to which it is so often subject. It is the "free" cinema (that is, film-making without commercial commitments) that allows those
more extreme forms of work where failure or partial failure may be just as revealing as some successful new technical discovery.
RATATOUILLE is an original, extremely witty and well-made film that leaves with you with a warm glow. The plot is hilarious. A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.
Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. Remy finds himself torn between his calling and passion in life or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef. There’s decidedly a lesson in there. Take my word and rent the DVD. This one’s for the entire family.
more extreme forms of work where failure or partial failure may be just as revealing as some successful new technical discovery.
RATATOUILLE is an original, extremely witty and well-made film that leaves with you with a warm glow. The plot is hilarious. A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.
Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. Remy finds himself torn between his calling and passion in life or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef. There’s decidedly a lesson in there. Take my word and rent the DVD. This one’s for the entire family.
No comments:
Post a Comment