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RATATOUILLE behind the scenes special scurrying up your Yahoo!

Hey folks, Harry here... We're all big Brad Bird fans here on AICN - THE IRON GIANT, THE INCREDIBLES... before that... THE SIMPSONS and FAMILY DOG. Oh yes, we're BIG HONKING FANS of Brad Bird.

It's taken longer though with RATATOUILLE to find my excitement for this - as a Brad Bird project. I didn't need a talking rat movie again. Oh sure - that's like saying "I didn't need another buddy cop flick" - but HOT FUZZ will cure your ass of stupidity like that. It's just - with Brad - I like that his animation isn't just that basic Disney formula. It's kinda - a special Brad Bird thing. Where he takes the humor and the endless possibilities of animation... hits you with them right up front, but then slowly but surely makes you forget that it is animation as you invest so much emotionally - that suddenly... blissfully... you're caught up in whatever bit of outrageous, yet emotionally intimate - form of drama - suspense that he's laid out for you.

I just wasn't seeing that in RATATOUILLE's glimpses that we were getting. It seemed like another story about wise-cracking rats up to non-rat things... and frankly, that will never be done better than THE SECRET OF NIMH.

Then this latest trailer hit! And suddenly I got it. Brad Bird and Pixar are adapting the classic Chuck Jones Looney Tunes ONE FROGGY EVENING - only - the man and animal form a co-dependent relationship - for each to achieve their dreams. I like it. I like it alot.

Right now - over at Yahoo in the mind-numbingly aggravating Windows Media format is a Behind the Scenes feature on RATATOUILLE featuring the maestro, BRAD BIRD and we even get a wonderful earful of Michael Giacchino's lush scoring work for the film. So give it a watch - and - listen - if the format doesn't choke on ya!







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THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE'S VAN INFESTATION!!!
by Err
Apr 10th, 2007
04:09:07 PM
Harry...do me a favor...
by Err
Apr 10th, 2007
04:17:21 PM
Hope So
by purplemonkeydw
Apr 10th, 2007
04:19:31 PM
Err
by purplemonkeydw
Apr 10th, 2007
04:20:16 PM
screw WMV
by darthnoodle
Apr 10th, 2007
04:20:17 PM
RATATOUILLE 2: A NIGHT ON THE KFC/TACO BELL FLOOR
by Pound Sand
Apr 10th, 2007
04:23:00 PM
purplemonkey
by Err
Apr 10th, 2007
04:26:01 PM
Does it star a coyote in a Quiznos?
by Err
Apr 10th, 2007
04:26:36 PM
Err.. Hook is AMAZING!!
by Evil Hobbit
Apr 10th, 2007
04:27:03 PM
Hook is amazing? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
by Err
Apr 10th, 2007
04:28:34 PM
Hook is a fantastic film
by Evil Hobbit
Apr 10th, 2007
04:30:13 PM
So big name stars + good soundtrack = Amazing film? B..
by Err
Apr 10th, 2007
04:32:23 PM
Hook had all the ingredients of an amazing movie...
by Childe Roland
Apr 10th, 2007
04:35:46 PM
Just saw an Amazing Stories written by Bird
by jimmy_009
Apr 10th, 2007
04:35:59 PM
Youtube link
by monkeyspin
Apr 10th, 2007
04:37:48 PM
The Government Should Step In....
by jimmy_009
Apr 10th, 2007
04:41:05 PM
Actually my problem with "Hook" WAS the Lost Boys...
by Frijole
Apr 10th, 2007
04:43:13 PM
Yeah, Rufio sucked, Frijole...
by Childe Roland
Apr 10th, 2007
05:00:08 PM
So anyway...
by fluffybunnywhiskers
Apr 10th, 2007
05:23:16 PM
I liked Williams as Peter Panning...
by Frijole
Apr 10th, 2007
05:26:09 PM
"Ahhhh Paris France"
by livingwater
Apr 10th, 2007
05:48:54 PM
Damn you Iron Giant!
by dundundles
Apr 10th, 2007
06:04:47 PM
I saw The Incredibles openning day and I'll see this as
by kinghenryVIII
Apr 10th, 2007
06:19:22 PM
YouTube version
by Brendon
Apr 10th, 2007
06:38:50 PM
I don't think
by RonJeremyIrons
Apr 10th, 2007
07:14:17 PM
boring promotional hype
by Rupee88
Apr 10th, 2007
07:41:45 PM
I keep mixing this up with...
by Christopher3
Apr 10th, 2007
09:21:06 PM
Looks more like Brad Bird's animated "Mouse Hunt".
by ExcaliburFfolkes
Apr 10th, 2007
09:23:44 PM
Secret Of NIMH = best animated rat movie ever
by Osmosis Jones
Apr 10th, 2007
09:51:09 PM
What would a Disney thread be without....
by Forestal
Apr 10th, 2007
11:10:28 PM
Osmosis Jones. Is this true?
by council estate scumbag
Apr 11th, 2007
03:18:27 AM
FAMILY DOG
by jiggertool
Apr 11th, 2007
08:02:34 AM
i agree, jiggertool
by LegoKenobi
Apr 11th, 2007
08:29:19 AM
Give Tim Burton his due too
by half vader
Apr 11th, 2007
08:32:50 AM
scumbag RE: NIMH DVD
by Osmosis Jones
Apr 11th, 2007
10:09:30 AM
Pixar Wins Again. Bow down MoFo...I SAID BOW DOWN!
by Atomica
Apr 11th, 2007
11:28:58 AM
how did i miss that trailer?!
by occula
Apr 11th, 2007
12:29:37 PM
secret of nimh = CRAP
by Undead03
Apr 11th, 2007
03:55:09 PM
Hey Undead03, go crawl back into your coffin
by Osmosis Jones
Apr 11th, 2007
11:18:25 PM
Sorry Evil Hobbit
by one9deuce
Apr 12th, 2007
01:13:57 AM
Osmosis Jones
by council estate scumbag
Apr 12th, 2007
03:34:06 AM
you got da wrong film, twatman Undead03
by council estate scumbag
Apr 12th, 2007
03:40:27 AM
Last!
by DerLanghaarige
Apr 12th, 2007
09:42:45 AM
Last! Ha!
by Err
Apr 12th, 2007
04:48:23 PM
Last. Finally.
by council estate scumbag
Apr 13th, 2007
03:41:50 AM

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