50 Fun Facts About Ratatouille

In Ratatouille, what is the name of the rat who dreams of becoming a chef?

He is voiced by comedian Patton Oswalt, and his heightened senses of taste and smell set him apart from the rest of his colony.

What job does Alfredo Linguini have at Gusteau's when Remy first meets him?

Remy first intervenes to fix a leek soup Linguini has ruined, and the accidental hit gets Linguini a place in the kitchen.

How does Remy control Linguini's movements while hidden under his toque?

The pair discover the trick after Remy bites Linguini and, in the scramble, yanks a tuft that jerks his arm.

What is the three-word motto of the late chef Auguste Gusteau?

Anton Ego's final review admits he has come to understand it: not everyone can be a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

Colette Tatou is notable in Gusteau's kitchen for being what?

She is assigned to train Linguini, persuades Skinner to keep him, and the two eventually fall for each other.

What secret about Linguini's parentage makes him the rightful owner of the restaurant?

That makes Linguini the rightful owner of the restaurant, so Skinner hides the evidence until Remy steals it back.

What was Skinner using Gusteau's name and image to sell on the side?

The corn dogs and burritos were exactly the sort of thing that would have horrified the real Gusteau.

The ratatouille variation Remy serves Anton Ego is called what?

Chef Thomas Keller suggested it and chose to fan the vegetable rounds accordion-style so it would look elegant on screen.

The layered dish on Ego's plate was originally created in 1976 by which French chef?

His version left out frying and peppers and added mushrooms; the name is a pun on the Turkish stuffed-eggplant dish imam bayildi.

Which real-life American chef consulted on the film and let producer Brad Lewis intern in his kitchen?

His French Laundry version of the dish had appeared in his 1999 cookbook with a piperade base and a balsamic vinaigrette.

After Skinner and the health inspector expose the rats, what happens to Gusteau's restaurant?

Ego loses his job and reputation for having praised it, then quietly invests in the small bistro the friends open next.

What is the name of the bistro Remy, Linguini and Colette open at the end of the film?

The Paris ride exit is called Bistrot Chez Rémy, which is where a lot of people get the two confused.

Who directed Ratatouille after taking over the project in 2005?

He rewrote the story that Jan Pinkava had begun in 2000, and it earned him his second Oscar after The Incredibles.

Which Pixar filmmaker came up with the concept of Ratatouille in 2000?

He had won an Oscar for the short Geri's Game and left the project in 2005 over story concerns.

Which comedian provides the voice of Remy?

Bird reportedly cast him after hearing a stand-up routine about Black Angus steakhouse ads.

The waspish critic Anton Ego is voiced by which Oscar-nominated Irish-born actor?

The character's look was inspired by French actor Louis Jouvet, and he was designed to resemble a vulture.

Which actor, best known as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, voices the scheming head chef Skinner?

Skinner is a tiny man with a very large temper, and Holm plays him at full volume.

Colette is voiced by which comedian and actress?

Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett voices Gusteau, and Will Arnett voices the sous chef Horst.

Remy's father Django is voiced by which actor?

Remy's brother Emile is voiced by Pixar animator Peter Sohn, who later directed The Good Dinosaur and Elemental.

Who wrote the score for Ratatouille and earned his first Oscar nomination for it?

He won the Grammy for best score soundtrack album, and the score leans on accordion, gypsy jazz and Parisian café sounds.

The film's French-language theme song, 'Le Festin', is performed by which singer?

It was the very first cue Giacchino wrote for the movie and stays in French in nearly every dubbed version.

Ratatouille won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at which ceremony?

It received five nominations in total, including original screenplay, score, sound editing and sound mixing.

How many Academy Award nominations did Ratatouille receive in total?

At the time it was a record for an animated film, later matched by WALL-E.

Roughly how much did Ratatouille gross worldwide?

It opened at number one in North America with $47.2 million against a $150 million budget.

What was Ratatouille's production budget?

First-week DVD sales alone moved nearly five million units in November 2007.

To research the film, what did Pixar keep in a hallway at the studio for more than a year?

The animators also attended cooking classes at San Francisco-area culinary schools to get the knife work right.

Which Pixar short was screened before Ratatouille in cinemas?

The DVD added a new short, Your Friend the Rat, starring Remy and Emile.

The film's title works as a pun on the French dish and on what?

The marketing leaned into it by printing a pronunciation guide, rat-a-too-ee, on the poster.

The film is set mostly in which city?

Remy arrives there through the sewers after being separated from his colony during a hasty escape from a farmhouse attic.

The real dish ratatouille comes from which region of France?

It is especially associated with Nice, and began as a rustic way to use up a glut of summer vegetables.

The word ratatouille comes from French and Occitan verbs meaning what?

The verbs ratouiller and tatouiller are expressive forms of touiller, and the word originally meant a rough stew.

According to purists, how should the vegetables in a ratatouille be cooked?

No recipe recognisable as modern ratatouille appears in print before the late 19th century, and the standard version dates only to about 1930.

Which of these is NOT one of the standard vegetables in a traditional ratatouille?

Tomato, onion and garlic round out the usual six, seasoned with Provençal herbs such as basil, thyme and bay.

On which platform did teacher Emily Jacobsen post the Remy song that began Ratatouille the Musical in 2020?

Daniel Mertzlufft's orchestrated arrangement of her ditty set off a wave of fan-written numbers.

In the January 2021 benefit concert of Ratatouille the Musical, who played Remy?

Wayne Brady played Django and André De Shields played Ego; the stream raised more than $2 million for The Actors Fund.

The Ratatouille the Musical concert was directed by Lucy Moss, co-creator of which hit stage musical?

It was scored by a 20-piece all-female, majority women-of-colour orchestra and drew 350,000 viewers.

Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, the ride that shrinks guests to rat size, first opened in 2014 where?

The Epcot copy in the France pavilion opened on October 1, 2021, for Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary.

What is unusual about the vehicles on Remy's Ratatouille Adventure?

The rat-shaped cars use a local positioning system to slide across the floor, the same idea as Rise of the Resistance.

Before Ratatouille, Brad Bird made which 1999 animated film that flopped in cinemas but became a cult classic?

He also spent eight seasons as a consultant on The Simpsons and later moved to live action with Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

What score does Ratatouille hold on Metacritic, tying it with the very best-reviewed Pixar films?

Its Rotten Tomatoes rating is also 96 percent, and it remains many critics' pick for the studio's finest film.

The Ratatouille tie-in video game came out the same day as the film's soundtrack. What date?

The film itself opened in North America on June 29 and took $47.2 million on its first weekend.

How many riders per hour can Remy's Ratatouille Adventure handle, according to Disney?

There are 36 six-seat vehicles, and the trip lasts about four minutes and forty seconds.

Which Pixar director got exclusive control of the story in 2004, before leaving to work on Up?

After three months Pixar management handed the film to Brad Bird, who killed off Gusteau and enlarged the roles of Skinner and Colette.

According to Jan Pinkava, the critic Anton Ego was designed to resemble which bird?

To save animation time, the film's human characters were also designed and animated without toes.

Which comedian was approached for a role but declined because he was busy raising kids?

Ian Holm, by contrast, was cast as Skinner after Brad Bird saw him in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

How did a Pixar staffer in a chef's uniform help animators study Linguini's soaked clothes?

The crew wanted to see which parts of the suit clung to the body and which turned translucent when soaked.

How was the film's title spelled phonetically on posters and in trailers?

Disney and Pixar worried that children would not know the word or how to say it.

Which short film starring Remy and Emile was included on the 2007 DVD and Blu-ray release?

The eleven-minute short mixes 3-D, 2-D, live action and even stop-motion animation, a first for Pixar.

Ratatouille's 2006 release date was pushed back a year to make room for which film?

The delay meant Ratatouille opened on June 29, 2007, a week after its world premiere at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

A planned Ratatouille-branded drink for Costco was dropped after complaints from which group?

Labelling standards restrict the use of cartoon characters on alcohol to avoid appealing to under-age drinkers.