{"id":509,"date":"2007-07-04T21:49:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T01:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/07\/04\/ratatouille\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:56:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:56:23","slug":"ratatouille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/07\/04\/ratatouille\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratatouille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nGiven that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0382932\/\">Pixar&#8217;s latest movie<\/a> was written and directed by Brad Bird (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317705\/\">The Incredibles<\/a>) and tells the tale of a rat who doesn&#8217;t want to eat garbage and dreams of becoming a Parisian chef, I went in expecting it to be hilarious.  Actually it&#8217;s more cute than laugh-out-loud funny. Not <em><a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#kawaii\">kawaii<\/a><\/em>-cute, but cute in a grotesque way.<\/p>\n<p>If you are very squeamish about watching streaming hordes of rats you may have a real problem with this film. On the other hand, if you think that a rat can be sort of appealing in a sort of ugly way then you will probably like it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the movie is really trying to be hilarious. It seems more interested in being heartwarming. Unfortunately &#8220;heartwarming&#8221; and &#8220;rat&#8221; don&#8217;t go too well together, at least when the rats are rendered in 3-D with Pixar&#8217;s usual skill.  Whatever the movie is aiming at, I don&#8217;t think it quite achieves it.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, even though this isn&#8217;t a great movie it is fun to watch. Kids will enjoy it and adults (at least those who are not rat-phobic) will not feel that they have wasted their time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that Pixar&#8217;s latest movie was written and directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and tells the tale of a rat who doesn&#8217;t want to eat garbage and dreams of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/07\/04\/ratatouille\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-ratatouille"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}