Stop for a moment and imagine the sound of Paris in movies. In what other movie will you find score cue titles like "Kiss and Vinegar," "Colette Shows Him Le Ropes," "Heist To See You," and "End Creditouilles?" This cleverness delves deeper than the titles as well, as Giacchino plays with every musical convention you can imagine.
That level of cleverness extends to Michael Giacchino\'s lovely score for the movie. Every time I see that little "rat ∙ a ∙ too ∙ ee" I just have to smile.
Who likes rats and who needs to be reminded that this movie is full of them? And how many Americans have ever had ratatouille? Or know that it\'s a stewed vegetable dish? But perhaps realizing that a movie about a French rat who just wants to cook needs this title, the marketing people did the best they could and put the movie\'s pronunciation right in the title graphic. It has the word "rat" right at the beginning. After all, it\'s a French word, and Americans do not go to movies with foreign titles. Isn\'t Ratatouille the best name for a movie you\'ve heard all year? In this day and age you would think that some corporate power somewhere would have insisted that the director or the producer change the name.
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