Loved it and smiled at the homages to Fantasia and Citizen Kane - perhaps it's my bias to Paris and Dining snobbery, but this is my favorite Pixar - enjoyed every moment.

In a way, though this didn't detract from my enjoyment of the film, the scenic elements may have been a tad too realistic. I often took them for live action. Thank goodness for those moments of taste-interpretation, which took me right out of the live-action film and back into an animated movie - where I belonged.


D'uh, for the entire movie, I couldn't place the voice behind Anton Ego. I guess that's for the best, but D'UH!

That's right! I still have that. I'll get it back to you.
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I couldn't place Ego's voice either. I kept thinking about it. Awesome choice.
I recognized Ian Holm right away, though. Love him.

The one thing that took me a bit to suspend my disbelief on was the way Remy controlled Linguini. I loved how he worked him like a forklift but it didn't quite make sense to me but I just resigned myself to say 'meh' and moved on.

The other thing I was scratching my head about was the way Remy was determined to save the cookbook at the beginning. He acted as if it were vital for him to have it, but he didn't really need it. In fact, he just left it in the sewer after all that. :shrug:

As Pixar goes, I still love Nemo and then The Incredibles. This one is third, I think.
:)

Yeah, you had to let it go, because otherwise there was no way this movie would work.

I was so glad when he abandoned it, because in that moment when he was turning the pages, which had been soaking wet, had dried closed, and now were free to turn, my librarian side was annoyed. :p

Maybe because it was a cookbook it had splashproof pages.

I thought the timeline was a bit off. Gusteau dies. Remy finds out, he goes to Paris, Linguini shows up at the restaurant and, suddenly, the two years have passed since Gusteau's death.

I thought Gusteau had been dead for two years, and the show on the TV was a documentary, not a news story.

Yes, that's the way I took it. Remy learning of Gusteau's death was belated not concurrent.

News comes slowly to the rat world. They just found out people were pissed about bubonic plague 30 years ago.

The book was too old for that...one could argue it was a retro reprint or some such....but the wavy pages told another story. :p