By this point, Django suddenly believed that Remy's gift was great. Remy is gifted with a keen sense of smell and taste, which he used to save his father from eating food that was covered with rat poison.
The movie then shifts to Remy, a Parisian rat who lives in the attic of a French country home owned by a old woman with his brother Emile and a pack led by his father Django. Throughout the years, Ego tries to put down Gusteau's reputation as he doesn't believe in his motto, "Anyone Can Cook." Everyone loved Gusteau, except for food critic Anton Ego. The movie opens with a televised document about French chef, Auguste Gusteau, who is the owner of 5-star restaurant, Gusteau's, being the youngest chef to ever have a 5-star rating and having a best selling book, Anyone Can Cook. He sets out to make his dreams come true, and soon he and a young human chef named Alfredo Linguini end up working together in a race to foil the schemes of Chef Skinner.
It 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.Ratatouille is set in Paris, France, and focuses on a rat named Remy who dreams of being a chef. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for four more, including Best Original Screenplay. It received critical acclaim for Giacchino's score, voice acting, writing, and the animation. The film grossed $620.7 million and was a box office success. 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 rôtisseur 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 Emile, Remy's older brother and Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently deceased chef. The plot follows a 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 animal type of the main character, a rat.
It was the eighth film produced by Pixar, and 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 Pinkava and Jim Capobianco. Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures.