Flutterby™! : Ratattouille

Saw Ratattouille yesterday. I don't know if I'm as gaga "oh my you must see this film" as everyone else, but I thought it was strong, and, as others have noted, the shot where the reviewer Anton Ego takes his first bite is tear-jerking.

Two things pulled me out of it:

1. The several scenes of the rat in danger, with the frantic rats-eye view camera, felt overdone to me, the over-the-topness of the first big inciting incident, involving the shot gun, felt forced.
2. If anything, the gorgeous visuals separated me from the story. This was most pronounced with Skinner's moustache, but I felt like there were four or five different art direction styles, all competing for attention, and that competition too often overran the story. I'd almost have rather seen it doen in a fairly plain hand-drawn style.

However, it blows the doors off of Cars, visually and especially story-wise, and was worth seeing in the theater.

On that note, since most theaters these days are going DLP, maybe Pixar could do a little bit to pander to that technology? In the credits roll and one vertical pan there was some artifact (maybe interlacing?) that was causing some eally annoying flicker that I'm sure could have been reduced or removed with a little image pre-processing.