Sunday 29 March 2009

Rat packs a punch


Finally got round to watching Disney Pixar's animated 2007 movie Ratatouille. 

IMDB rating 8.2 - Loved the character of the 'notoriously hard-to-please, famous food critic', Anton Ego (voiced by Peter O'Toole), who gave world-famous chef Auguste Gusteau's restaurant a less-than-stellar review that resulted in the restaurant losing one of its five stars. In the story, the heart-broken chef died soon after, which meant the loss of another star according to tradition. 

* I worked for 'famous food critic' Egon Ronay for eight years in the late 1990s and the scenario tickled a taste-bud memory (but I don't recall anyone dying, as such...)