Ratatouille - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Ratatouille or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Ratatouille

[gerald]

Several changes to the design of the rats (primarily the nose and ears) were made after Debbie Ducommun, a rat expert, brought down several of her personal pets for the art and animation departments to observe.

[melinda]

(At around sixteen minutes) When Remy (Patton Oswalt) is climbing out of the sewers for the first time, he is barked at by a dog in one of the houses. You only see the dog's silhouette, but it is actually the dog Dug from Pixar's then still-in-production movie Up (2009).

[michele]

Skinner's (Sir Ian Holm's) car is an early 1960s Facel Vega HK 500. Facel Vega was an extremely obscure French marque built in tiny numbers at extraordinary cost for the very cream of society and glitterati for only ten years between 1954 and 1964. Equivalent to somewhere between a Bentley and an Aston Martin, they were looked down upon by some for having a Chrysler V8 engine, but the eventual cost of designing their own engine pretty much destroyed the company. Arguably the most stylish car of all time.

[albert]

Janeane Garofalo's third animated movie, after Titan A.E. (2000) and The Wild (2006).

[dustin]

PIXAR TRADEMARK: (At around one hour and fourteen minutes) Nearly every Pixar movie shows the Pizza Planet truck from the Toy Story franchise. The truck appears on the bridge over the Seine, in the scene where Skinner (Sir Ian Holm) chases Remy (Patton Oswalt).

[ivan]

Jason Ritter was considered for the voice of Remy.

[addison]

If you look closely, the female rat who is listening to Remy about his story at the end and asks how did he know about Ego being happier than he was as a critic is the same rat Remy, as the clan's "poison checker", says that the mushroom she picked is "close to godliness" at the beginning of the movie.

[maureen]

Brad Bird cast Patton Oswalt in the main role after hearing his stand-up routine about the menu at the Black Angus Steakhouse.

[phyllis]

Pixar's second movie to not take place in North America. The first one being Finding Nemo (2003), which takes place around the Great Barrier Sea in Australia.

[lynn]

The third and so far last Pixar movie to have Lou Romano voicing a character after The Incredibles (2004) as Bernie Kropp, and Cars (2006) as Snot Rod.

[wesley]

With Joe Ranft having passed away during the production of Cars (2006), this makes this the first Pixar film to not feature any involvement by him or to have any characters voiced by him.

[mathew]

The brand of motorcycle that Colette rides, as evidenced by the logo on the gas tank, is Calamari - in reference to a dish made from squid, or the Italian word for squid. A "squid" is a term for a rider of sport motorcycles, usually young men, who relish emulating famous racers on public highways, and quite often have battle scars on both their bodies and on their bikes. It originally was a derogatory term, but now squids proudly wear the label. "Team Calamari" is often seen on bumper stickers and t-shirts, often accompanied by wild Ed "Big Daddy" Roth style caricatures. Colette's bike itself is styled after a Ducati (an Italian make) Hailwood Replica.

[chris]

To create a realistic-looking compost pile, artists photographed and researched the way real produce rots. Fifteen different kinds of produce were left to rot and then photographed, such as apples, berries, bananas, mushrooms, oranges, broccoli, and lettuce.

[javier]

In the Ratatouille teaser on the Cars DVD, Remy is subtitled as "Rat #1" and Emile is subtitled as "Rat #2."

[terry]

Colette says that the sous chef, Horst, has been in prison, which is why he is so rough. Actually, French prisons are considered the toughest in the world. Horst's mannerisms are perfect for his experiences.

[kyle]

Disney's last animated film with the Buena Vista Pictures Distribution name.

[ella]

Will Arnett's second animated movie. The first being Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006).

[liam]

The last Pixar film with Buena Vista Pictures Distribution name before it was renamed as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

[stephanie]

One of Will Arnett's only two G-rated movies. His other being Horton Hears a Who! (2008) by Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios.