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The Chinese RATATOUILLE Trailer Is Way Different That The Trailer We Got!!

Published at:  Mar 16, 2007 3:06:06 PM CDT



Merrick here...

The Chinese trailer for Disney/Pixar’s RATATOUILLE has hit YouTube.

It’s significantly different from the American trailer – featuring an extended sequence of “set up” from the film.

SEE IT!!!


I love the rendering of the foggy Parisian night. I'm eager to see how this film shakes out. CARS was cold and creepy to me (never could shake the sense that it was set in a formerly human world in which machines had overthrown mankind and now dominated the Earth); it never really came to life for me. This might make up for it.

Thanks to Jeroen for sending in the link!






To everyone who keeps calling this the Chinese trailer... it's not.

It may have Chinese characters on it -- I'm not sure either way -- but it was cut for the Japanese market specifically. I saw this trailer when I was at Pixar two weeks ago, and I also saw the new domestic trailer which we should get in front of MEET THE ROBINSONS. They emphasize very different aspects of the film, and I think if you like this one, you'll flip for the domestic version.

Just wanted to clarify. "Moriarty" out.



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  • Mar 16, 2007 10:56:34 AM CDT

    It's actually a Chinese trailer...

    by toestix

    Great trailer.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 10:57:33 AM CDT

    third, bitches

    by council estate scumbag

    That's my word from the council estates

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:01:32 AM CDT

    amazing

    by evil hobbit

    truly amazing

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:03:38 AM CDT

    Overwhelmed

    by massage...bored

    I am consistently overwhelmed by the quality of product that Pixar puts out. They just put every other 3D studio to shame with their prowess.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:13:57 AM CDT

    Why...

    by thighmaster

    ..do Pixar's trailers suck. The movies are always good, but the trailers stink. This trailer bored the hell out of me. My animator buddy at Pixar says the movie is great though.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:18:44 AM CDT

    i'm glad you changed it to Chinese

    by council estate scumbag

    But there was no damn need to delete my post, fella.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:19:38 AM CDT

    I can't wait for this to come out.

    by excaliburffolkes

    Pixar has such a great streak of films going right now.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:26:37 AM CDT

    Cars wasn't post-apocolyptic

    by big bad clone

    That seem to imply that the Cars built that world. Now, where the Cras came from and why things were human scale? Who the fuck knows? Maybe the Kansas State Educational Board in the Cars universe teaches that cars were created by the great Model T in the sky.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:27:26 AM CDT

    That is how they should be marketing it in the USA.

    by beastie

    When I saw the American trailer, I thought, "Great. Pixar is finally gonna have a TYPICAL talking animal movie", and none of the American marketing had changed my mind. This Chinese trailer makes the movie look good, original and inspired. NOW, I can't wait for it.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:31:18 AM CDT

    What tremendous acting. This

    by beerbeastredux

    What tremendous acting. This is why the "animated feature film" category is a terrible insult to great animators anywhere.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:32:54 AM CDT

    What is "Damn you Michael Bay in Chinese?"

    by hyperion consul

    either way.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:33:37 AM CDT

    I still think that Brad Bird should get...

    by derlanghaarige

    ...all the praise that Miyazaki gets. Holy shit, that was a TRAILER and was the most touching thing I saw for months!

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:37:02 AM CDT

    Everyone is always bitching

    by beerbeastredux

    Everyone is always bitching about too many talking animal films. There's no talking here. Just acting. I'm overwhelmed by the subtle movements and gestures. This is JUST what it takes to make appealing characters.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:38:25 AM CDT

    nice

    by caipirina

    good looking trailer and great to get this right now (parts of it are exactly what we read in those descriptions of the showest showings) ... i noticed that pixar seems to have their own youtube account .. and besides the teaser there is also some animation test published .. cool

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:46:59 AM CDT

    this trailer rocks

    by council estate scumbag

    That's my word from the council estates

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:55:11 AM CDT

    just saw it for the 5th time

    by council estate scumbag

    this is just slammin. i have to admit i thought the idea of a rat who becomes a chef was fuckin stupid. but what Braddy boy does is take an obscure leftfield idea and ground it firmly in reality. this trailer proves that. its BELIEVABLE. the man truly is a genius of our time. same shit with incredibles and iron giant. go forth mr bird and conquer. this'll be big on the streets. posh twat cunts will love it too.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 12:01:12 PM CDT

    er...Thighmaster obviously saw a different trailer

    by council estate scumbag

    that was the most touching thing i eveer saw, mate. you obviously dont get it. it's the Shrek-postMTV generation like you that dumb down the entire film industry and we end up with the US version of the ratatouille trailer- a generic thing that makes you go meh! this was like a miyazaki canvas, mate. this was on another level. maybe too highbrow for you. go and watch it again, and this time open your eyes. i'm serious. this trailer is too good. they better play dat shit here in the UK.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 12:02:35 PM CDT

    Oui Oui

    by bruno diaz

    wow. everyone in Hollywood needs to learn from Pixar. They know what's up. Bow down.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 12:22:23 PM CDT

    Sorry for having an opinion

    by thighmaster

    Dear council estate scumbag, Shrek sucks the life out of anyone that sees it. Shrek is a horrible abortion of a movie that's pop culture jokes were dated ten minutes after it was released. It made over 920 million dollars. MTV is a vacuous void that is destroying the minds of our future by turning complete morons into icons. The people that dumb down the industry are the public as a whole and brain dead executives who have no idea what is good, not me. If that was the most touching thing you've ever seen than you have only seen, at the most, two touching things in your life and that's sad. The animation and acting are amazing, I work at one of the top three animation houses so I know a little bit about that. I wasn't saying it wasn't a good scene, I was saying as a trailer it wasn't good. Of course I want to see it, Brad Bird is an amazing director. Look me in the eyes and tell me the trailers for the last 3 Pixar films were good. DO IT! I just thought this trailer showed a little to much and was a tad cheesy. It takes a little more than 2 minutes to get me vested in a character to care enough about that character to be moved. That's a character trait of no attention span and the MTV generation my friend.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 12:24:33 PM CDT

    The Chinese Would Just Eat the Rat

    by all your base

    By the way Tigh is a Cylon

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  • Mar 16, 2007 12:26:49 PM CDT

    It's also way better

    by larry of arabia

    I hope this is the trailer they show with AWE

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  • Mar 16, 2007 12:39:21 PM CDT

    It's TIME for industry insiders to come out swinging

    by doctor_sin

    What??? We've only had ONE "I work for a major animation house" post??? Tsk, tsk. What is AICN coming to?Perhaps we need more leaked pics, so we can get all the Photoshop experts in here crowing about what effect was used to fake up the pic.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 12:50:44 PM CDT

    JACK BAUER WAS TORTURED FOR THIS TRAILER

    by pound sand

    So says the CTU mole.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 1:35:07 PM CDT

    Bring it on, Thighmaster

    by council estate scumbag

    You know what, son. I don't work at one of the top three animation houses. I'm just a humble commoner who loves films, so it's just MY OPINION too. I just happen to know a lot. I was just offering my opinion on your opinion. No offense meant geeza. Sorry that you took it so bad. thats the way we talk on my estate. Cars was indeed a shite trailer (but so was the movie), Incredibles trailer was fun and good- it made me want to see the movie, so I dont know what the hell you're talking about on that one, the nemo trailer was shite, but thge film was a pleasant surprise. (Do you remember at the time everyone was saying it was gonna be pixar's first bomb?) So on that one you're wrong, pal. I beg to differ that the public as a whole dumb down the industry- what the hell are you talking about? put down that crack pipe, go out, get some fresh air and clear your head, mate. If you feed people quality they WILL lap it up. people dont crave bollocks. You seriously underestimate and patronise the common man. oh, yeah and about it being the most touching thing i'd ever seen- thats a figure of speech pal. We brits use that shit all the fucking time. dont take things so literally. sheesh thats why you americans, though i think you guys are cool, take things too literally. know and recognize. study up, pal. put down that peg bar. its thwarting your mind, me old mukka.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 1:36:06 PM CDT

    kickass

    by legokenobi

    i think you're too close to the industry, thighmaster, and can't look at it without seeing your work -- as someone with NO connection to the movie industry at all, i thought this trailer was kick ASS. bow down to brad bird and pixar, indeed! i had tears in my eyes at the end of that thing. it's going to be a fantastic flick. can't wait, can't wait...

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  • Mar 16, 2007 1:42:15 PM CDT

    i agree Legokenobi

    by council estate scumbag

    one of my mates is an animator at a top London studio and he cant see the fucking wood for the trees sometimes. he's outa touch with the fucking general public, likes he's in a bubble that celebrates oddness, crapness mediocrity but not what REALLY matters. what a pretentious cunt! film insiders are cool, but seriously need to fucking check themselves and stay rooted to where its at and not lose touch with the general public, and worse still patronise them. what an Oxbridge cunt. if he came down my estate me and the lads would fucking educate the cunt.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 2:05:49 PM CDT

    BETTER THAN SHITTY CARS!!!

    by dhamaka2007

    Ya i said it.

    But still fuck you pixar.

    DW and BLUE SKY rock

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  • Mar 16, 2007 2:15:10 PM CDT

    I work for a major enemation studio.

    by jackpumpkinhead

    Boy, do they get administered here.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 2:15:27 PM CDT

    Actually, this comparison is flawed...

    by brendon

    Merrick is comparing an old American teaser trailer with the new Chinese trailer.

    The new American trailer - online very soon - is actually a third, different entity but closer to the Chinese trailer than the US teaser.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 2:22:56 PM CDT

    Awww yeah...

    by temeraire

    This made me want to see the film. And made my day. Bonus!

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  • Mar 16, 2007 2:50:52 PM CDT

    NEW POSTER TOO!

    by brendon

    Hey, there's a Chinese poster out now too.

    http://www.filmick.co.uk/2007/03/new-ratatouille-poster.html

    Merrick, feel free to move the link into the main body of the piece, if you think people will want to see it.

    I hope they do, because I think it's great.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 2:52:22 PM CDT

    Merrick...how dare you!

    by lordenigma

    No, humans, did not exist in the world of Cars. The cars somehow evolved that way. Silly man.

    However, that's a fucking trailer. That's capturing some old school fucking Disney vibe. Which I am still all about in a very big way.

    SO Jack might have suffered for this trailer. However, it got me interested in this movie. Pixar might do it again one more time.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 2:55:33 PM CDT

    Higher quality AVI version of this trailer

    by brendon

    Don't say I don't ever do anything for you. Show me some love at www.filmick.co.uk

    Here you go:

    http://snipurl.com/1d73u

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  • Mar 16, 2007 3:32:51 PM CDT

    Damn you michael bay in chinese.

    by justice41

    咒罵您邁克爾海灣

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  • Mar 16, 2007 3:35:27 PM CDT

    Of course you'll need

    by justice41

    Of course you'll need chinese fonts to see chinese translation or you'll just see a row of question marks.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 4:06:48 PM CDT

    I dug it.

    by coursinlarry

    Brad Bird is a genius. That little gesture the rat gives when the guy says to him, "And you can cook" is great. Very subtle, very real.

    I wish Brad Bird directed every animated movie.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 4:52:11 PM CDT

    there is a tear in my eye...

    by lionbiu

    ...awwww it was so moving. I am totally there for this one.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 5:13:00 PM CDT

    gone

    by rupee88

    I watched once and refreshed and it was history.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 5:14:05 PM CDT

    http://snipurl.com/1d73u still works tho

    by rupee88

  • Mar 16, 2007 5:32:50 PM CDT

    Merrick, you nailed Cars

    by strshp2rpr

    That whole cars took over the world thing was the vibe I was feeling. I didn't actually believe that was what they meant (and I don't think you did either), but it just felt like that the entire time. Creepy and inexplicable. Oh, and it ripped off Doc Hollywood, which didn't help matters either.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 5:57:37 PM CDT

    Yeah, Merrick's summary of 'Cars' cracked me up

    by ribbons

    That's sort of how I felt about the movie too. The cars have steering wheels and seats and everything! They MUST have been invented by a race of men that was later overthrown and exterminated.

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  • Mar 16, 2007 6:16:16 PM CDT

    Another place to get it

    by idermanspay

    http://snipurl.com/1cb5i

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  • Mar 16, 2007 11:19:41 PM CDT

    Ribbons...

    by jerseycajun

    The cars all had their windows frosted opaque. There's no way to tell if there were seats and steering wheels inside or if it wasn't just more mechanical parts, and none of them ever opened their doors. What film were you watching?

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  • Mar 17, 2007 1:12:30 AM CDT

    Definitely Chinese, not Japanese

    by koreth

    Speaking as someone who's been studying Chinese for the last two years, I can safely say this is Chinese. It uses traditional characters, so it's probably aimed at either Taiwan or Hong Kong rather than at mainland China (which uses a different writing system). The subtitles have Chinese characters that don't exist in Japanese, there are no Japanese kana at all, and the grammar and vocabulary is Chinese. I suspect most Japanese people would have trouble reading those subtitles, though they could probably get the general idea. If that is really aimed at Japan, Pixar has a marketing person who needs to be fired.

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  • Mar 17, 2007 1:28:06 AM CDT

    jerseycajun

    by ribbons

    Apparently not the one you were. I did see the film, but I guess I just didn't notice the opaque frosting on the windows. Uhh... sorry?

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  • Mar 17, 2007 3:55:41 AM CDT

    Chinese Taken Away

    by benbraddock

    She's gone, captain!!

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  • Mar 17, 2007 7:51:28 AM CDT

    fuk yu mik bai!

    by cuervojones

    that´s it

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  • Mar 17, 2007 10:38:52 PM CDT

    Codec help

    by 13th librarian

    I've got the sniper mirror site versions of this trailer, but don't seem to have or can find the right codec to see it.. any hints as to which codec I should look for?

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  • Mar 19, 2007 9:23:48 AM CDT

    Why would you pull a fucking trailer for copyright?

    by darebear

    It's a fucking ad! And people are seeing it for free! Morons!!

    BTW, the snipurl version is DivX

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  • Mar 19, 2007 4:13:21 PM CDT

    TOO SOON!!

    by pageiv

    So why doesnt the rat speak French?

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  • Mar 20, 2007 12:55:11 AM CDT

    an official disney japan link

    by kid plutonium

    Outstanding! Truly outstanding!
    Check it out here and enjoy...
    http://www.disney.co.jp/movies/remy/tokuho/tokuho2_jimaku_500k.html

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  • Mar 20, 2007 12:57:41 AM CDT

    correction

    by kid plutonium

    For some reason there is a space between the second to last "0" and the "0k.html" take it out. http://www.disney.co.jp/movies/remy/tokuho/tokuho2_jimaku_500k.html

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  • Mar 20, 2007 1:01:15 AM CDT

    correction #2

    by kid plutonium

    sorry about this but cut and paste is behaving badly. once again...
    http://www.disney.co.jp/movies/remy/tokuho/tokuho2_jimaku_500k.html

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  • Mar 20, 2007 1:06:04 AM CDT

    damn

    by kid plutonium

    This is bizarre and seriously embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Remove the space between "/movies" and "/remy" remove the space between "_jimaku_50" and "0k.html" Once again, sorry for all this. The trailer is really worth it.

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  • Mar 20, 2007 1:08:16 AM CDT

    finally.......

    by kid plutonium

    my fault! TinyUrl was the solution.
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/37kn96
    The moral of this quadriple posting is: RTFM :))

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