![]() Now, I do realize that I’ve just spent a good chunk of this article complaining about how poorly Colette Tatou is treated by this movie, but, even taking all of that into account, I continue to maintain that Ratatouille is The Best Pixar Movie. What I do know is that as soon as she sympathizes (that old, womanly emotion - sympathy) with our hero and his puppet, she just stops having goals of her own and focuses all her energy on them and their goals. She is written into the passive, supporting role that women are so often forced to take because - ? they’re not relatable enough to be main characters (I mean the main character is literally, again, a delightfully earnest and very talented talking rat )? the general public doesn’t care about their stories? I honestly don’t know how people are still trying to justify it at this point. She is written into not just accepting, but being happy with her position as second in command. Over the course of the movie, she is written into choosing love over the career she’s always wanted. So, again, this narrative does not serve her very well at all - it’s not designed to serve her it’s designed to use her. I’ve worked too hard for too long to get here and I am not going to jeopardize it for some garbage boy who got lucky.” She is a Strong Woman™ - my Misandry Life hero. She didn’t suffer a working life under the likes of Bradley Cooper in Burnt to be anything other than HBIC.Ĭolette Tatou sacrifices her ultimate, defining dream of running her own kitchen - she settles for less than she deserves - all because, as the only woman in the movie, her real job is to be the love interest.Īnd it’s so frustrating because when she is first introduced, she’s all: “Haute cuisine is an antiquated hierarchy built upon rules written by stupid old men - rules designed to make it impossible for women to enter this world,” and “I am the toughest cook in this kitchen. I mean, aside from all the interspecies poly weirdness, Colette didn’t work so hard for so long to settle for being anyone’s sous chef (even the sous chef of a delightfully earnest and very talented rat). And at the end (spoilers), the three of them - Colette, Remy, and Remy’s Puppet - open a restaurant together, where Remy is the head chef.Īs always with Pixar - look at that detail I mean, we’re really moving into some pretty (y)iffy Bee Movie territory at this point. BUT, she falls in love with him, in large part because she respects Remy’s cooking abilities and she is flattered that someone so skillful would defer to her in anything. She is a woman making it in a man’s world and she deserves only good things.Ĭolette is lovely and perfect, and this story serves her as well as can be expected (which is to say: not well enough).Ĭolette falls in love with Remy’s Puppet - a small but kind simpleton who worships and fears her (so, y’know: could be worse). She works harder than anyone else she rides a motorcycle she has NO TIME for anyone’s shit. Colette Tatou is the only woman in this whole kitchen and she. Now, in the tradition of my Double Features (which are often enough named for a dude, but actually about ladies ), let me tell you how great she is: SO GREAT. BUT, do you know who else works in that restaurant? Anyway, Remy finds himself in Paris, where he befriends/puppeteers some dude who works in a critically-acclaimed, and then -disparaged, and then -acclaimed again restaurant (the critic in question being a cross between Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsay, as voiced by Peter O’Toole). Ratatouille is about a rat (Remy), voiced by Patton Oswalt, who just really loves to cook! In his home in the French countryside, Remy spent a lot of time watching the male version of Julia Child believe in people on television, and this caused him to believe! in! himself! ![]() This may be an unpopular opinion to hold, but hold it I do: Ratatouille (2007) is the best Pixar movie. ![]() This Week: Ratatouille - Bob’s Burgers, “Moody Foodie” But do not fear! The reflective purpose of the double feature remains intact! But, this one only takes two hours instead of, like, four. After all, we’re living in the Golden Age of Television ™ and I could only forestall this inevitability for so long. We - you and I, together - are going to be branching out into the wide, wide, world of cinematic alternatives. ![]() So, this week’s installment of “Jenny Y’know I Don’t See How That’s Going to Work But I Trust You” is going to take a little more trust than usual. ![]()
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