Ok, so call me a cheap bastard! I can't stand taking my family of five to the REAL movie theater that now charges close to nine bucks a pop because, well, I have a really nice home theater setup (58 inch DLP tv with upconverting DVD player) and the quality is almost always better than watching even a first run movie at the theater. Add to that the fact that I don't have to listen to people talking, answering their cell phones, talk on their cell phones, bring their babies to the theaters, pay 10 bucks for popcorn, etc. I think you get my drift here and I think I am not alone...
Anyway, I finally got out to see the latest Disney/Pixar effort, Ratatouille. And it was at the 'cheap' theater (some people still call this the dollar theater for some reason but it is now $3.50 to see a movie here so I was still out seventeen bucks and could have bought the movie for the same price).
Before I review the movie let me rant: it is not ok to bring babies and one year olds to the theater people! We all paid the same amount to see the movie and we did not pay to hear your little darlings cry!
Ok, the movie - I had heard many great things about this movie but personally I feel it was missing the one thing that always makes or breaks Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks movies - adult styled humor. There really was little of this as I found myself rarely laughing at most of the way too juvenile humor.
The characters did not draw me in and the story was rather too fantastic (a bunch of rats cook a gourmet dinner at the end of the movie). I know, it's a cartoon but still....
Pixar has done better, MUCH better. The Incredibles, Monsters Inc, both Toy Story movies are truly examples of art in it's highest form when it comes to this format.
The animation was top notch. Some of the backgrounds were quite beautiful but I found the animation of the people to still be somewhat flat.
Shrek 3 was one of our favorites of the summer and it was in no danger of being knocked off of it's throne at the our house by this one.
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