I'll be honest, I wasn't looking forward to this movie much as from the surface it looked like yet another predictable Disney/Pixar movie (to which i get tired of all too quickly). However it's actually slightly more than that- but only slightly. As well as boasting excellent animation and visuals as standard for a Pixar film, the film also has a strong story with a simple and assertive moral at it's core. Characters here (well, the human ones anyway) are predictable and, for me anyway, highly unlikeable. The film is set in France and so the characters are all stereotypically French- stuck up, arrogant and full of ego (coincidentally one character's name, a highly detestable food critic, is actually called Ego). Even the careless and clumsy main character Languini who we are supposed to sympathise didn't do much for me, he came across as another predictable idiot in the "hapless moron"role that i didn't care for in the slightest. The animals, in this case the rats, are lovable mostly due to their excellent animations and expressions. The main rat, Remy, was brilliantly animated and his movements were excellent, specially when we see him scurry around as the camera shifts to a low perspective so we can see things from his point of view. The simple story is told well, surprisingly in a slightly more mature fashion than usual (younger children may even find it boring as the pace and tone of the film is actually more suited to a drama aimed at an older audience). Characters aside it's the story that shines and the moral which delivers- both are which entertaining suitably straightforward yet not predictable in their executions. The message it conveys is touching and to the point without being too over-dramatic, contrived and overly sentimental.
Not a classic film in any way but an enjoyable one with fantastic imagery and a nice charm as expected by Pixar, but in my honest opinion nothing really special as to warrant it spectacular.
6/10
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