I couldn’t stand it anymore – I had to make a thread on
this… (snigger)
Feel free to predict what the full story of
Ratatouille will be like, every last detail included…if you wish.
Those who
hate spoilers and/or discussing plot points would do best to fly out the door right about now – heheh.
To the moderators/administrators: If this topic of discussion seems, in any
way, to be pointless or simply an act of “overfandomization”, please delete or lock it. I don’t want
to be causing any trouble. 
My Prediction:
Remy is your not-quite-so-ordinary rat compared to the rest of his family…or his species, for that
matter. For one thing, he doesn’t believe that eating trash food and scowering about the fields where he lives
is very dignified. For another thing, he likes to cook…
Remy’s life-long dream is to become a world
famous chef and be recognized in the eyes of those who despise him so much and who fail to understand him. He
longs for his family to just accept his odd obsession for food, but can’t seem to get them to agree with his
strange ways. Hence, he passes his lonely, almost insignificant days by doing what he loves to do most: cook.
More than anything, he wants to see the ocean, although not many in his family know this.
Contrary to
popular belief, there really are advanced young rat chefs out there, and Remy is one of them. His famous
omelletes makes anyone’s mouth water, and his ratatouille dish is superb. Despite his differences, Remy knows
that his family can’t deny that his cooking is quite…good.
One day, Remy makes a
rather…big…mistake. While baking some chocolate chip and blueberry pancakes in a (miniature) stolen farm
oven, he accidentally sets fire to his entire house and burns the whole thiing down to bits. So, he and his
deeply depressed and outraged family have to find some other place to reside. Remy cunningly suggests the city of
Paris, which just so happens to house the restaurant of his favorite chef: Auguste Gusteau.
Our little
blue rat’s plans turn out to be better than he thought, for sewers are a-plenty beneath the bustling streets of
Paris; not to mention, he ends up situating his family in a comfy spot right underneath
Gusteau’s! cafe’.
Remy is absolutely ecstatic, and his family couldn’t be
happier either: the sewer is much bigger than their old home, there are more rats to talk to (even if they are a
tad bit shifty in personality), and discarded food and trash cans are everywhere. And even if scraps were in
short supply at times, it was no bother; they could always rely on Remy’s superb cooking skills…
Remy
soon discovers that, at night, if he climbs up the sewer pipes and into the basement of the restaurant, he can
sneak into the kitchen when no one’s watching and create meals whenever he wants! All the necessary tools are
available: spoons, pots, pans, recipe books, and a wide assortment of foods. There are even dishtowels and
sponges that he can use to clean up after hiimself so that no one will know anything about his nightly adventures
when he’s done.
Unfortunately, Linguini – the garbage boy – arrives late one night to take the night
shift at the restaurant and to clean up the place for tomorrow…when he stumbles upon Remy making some kind of
delicious-smelling soup in one of the kitchens. Taken by suprise, Remy makes a run for it, but gets captured by
Linguini in a jar and taken away…his precious soup left to bubble and boil on the
stove…
“Away” turns out to be another counter to the right of his masterpiece of a soup, and
Linguini immediately goes to turn off the oven before becoming almost entranced in the smell of the soup. Remy is
absolutely terrified at the prospect of being imprisoned, but he can’t help to surpress an inward smile at the
thought that his food captures the attention of even human beings.
Linguini, meanwhile, can’t help but to
taste Remy’s creation. Almost instantly, Linguini whoops out a praise of ecstasy – the soup is delicious! He
takes great care to save the soup and put it on an island counter nearby before scooping up the jar and Remy and
rushing outside to sit on a low wall above the Seine.
Linguini, his captive still shaking in the jar,
explains to Remy that he is a great cook. He also admits that he can’t cook himself, and is always getting
picked on about it, even though he’d love to learn how to do so. His life-long dream is similar to Remy’s: to
get noticed and earn some fame in his pitiful life.
He devises a plan: if Remy will help him learn how to
cook, he won’t tell anyone about Remy and his family below the kitchens; he also promises to release Remy. Remy
agrees, and soon realizes that he has made his first friend in Paris, even if he was a little human-like on the
outside…
For the first few days, Remy and Linguini’s plan goes pretty well. Remy teaches Linguini how
to cook while continuing to do so himself, making masterpieces at every turn. Linguini figures that they may as
well make something out of Remy’s delicious morsels, and devises a plan to set out Remy’s recipes on one of the
kitchen counters every morning for the chefs to discover; he just won’t tell who created them.
Auguste
Gusteau and his managerie of chefs soon find the foods that Remy creates, and they vow to find the mastermind
behind the mouth-watering delicacies. Remy smiles to himself; his dream is becoming more popular by the
minute…
Remy’s family, on the hand, is beginning to worry about them. Father and brother, Emile, know
what that little blue member of their family is up to, and they don’t like it. What if the humans discover and
evict them? Would they be killed, or worse…exhiled from their newfound paradise? Remy’s dad is more worried
about him than Emile is. Emile, Remy’s brother, is the only one in his family who seems to believe in Remy…and
is very close to him, even though he admits that his brother’s ideas are a little wack.
Somehow, Skinner
– the most devious and intimidating of the chefs in the place – finds out who is cooking the fantastic meals
and why. He doesn’t tell anybody, but devises a plan to capture the little traitor once and for all. Colette,
one of the waitresses, also discovers the truth, but she’s not as worried about it as Skinner is. In fact, she
thinks it’s rather cute, and tells Linguini so. However, her true plans are to take credit for all the meals
herself and gain all the reward.
After a few mishaps and turn of events, Remy somehow becomes captured by
Skinner, the latter of whom plans to dispose of him in the most inhuman way possible: the garbage disposal. He
locks Remy in a cage and promises that he will rid him of his passion and family in one good swipe. He also
promises Remy that he will take credit for all of Remy’s fine work. Remy, alone and helpless, has nothing more
to do than let out his feelings in tears…
Linguini devises a plan to rescue Remy. Since Skinner is the
only with the keys to open the cage, he has to get them back somehow, and he knows that Colette is the only one
he knows who can help him. Colette, feeling pity for Remy and realizing that she was selfish to think only for
herself in the beginning, agrees to help Linguini out after he pleads to her to assist him.
Emile and the
other rats in his family somehow learn of Remy’s mishap, but they can’t see what to do. For all they know, Remy
will be executed in a matter of hours. And, besides, what can a rat do? “Yes…,” Emile ponders.
“What could a rat do?” He knows now that it is not how big you are, but
how big your heart is that matters. And his brother has the biggest heart and the most talent of anyone he’s
ever known. Would he leave him to die? Certainly not…
Two hours later, and after a failed attempt to
snatch Skinner’s keys from him, Linguini and Colette find themselves tied up in “Remy’s” kitchen, as
it has now come to be called. Skinner finds the most torturous way to kill Remy, and decides to let his two best
friends stand to watch the “expedition”. Remy almost falls into the hole of a sink – with the garbage
disposal on – when his brother, Emile, rushes out in front of him and knocks him out of the way. A hoard of rats
then burst into the kitchen and get busy gnawing away at Linguini and Colette’s binding ropes. Skinner, furious,
gives Emile a good kick…knocking him out completely. Remy is shocked, and can’t think of anything else to do
but run. He does so, leaving his friends and Skinner back in the kitchen to deal with the crowd of rats that
continue to pile into the kitchen…
Not long after, Remy finds himself sitting along the sewer
waterway, in complete dismay at the prospect that his only brother was lying dead in the kitchen. A stranger soon
comes along the waterway in a boat, the stranger, moreover, being in the shape of his father. After a heartfelt
talk, and a few encouraging and fatherly words of wisdom, Remy takes up hope once again and goes back to tend to
his brother.
The film ends in a climatic battle of wits atop the Eiffel Tower, Remy risking life and limb
to beat back Skinner…who finally ends up defeated. The secret soon leaks out that Remy is the one who made all
those fine foods, and he is praised for his work by all of Paris, Linguini and Colette included. For a satisfying
ending, it turns out that Emile survived that daring ordeal in the kitchen, and takes his brother to the very top
of the Eiffel tower; and from the top of that monument, Remy finally gets to see the ocean, something he has been
waiting to view his whole life. But more than the waves and the excitement and the thematic climax, he is just
happy to finally be recognized. Alone on the tower, Emile beside him, Remy gives his brother a respectable,
admirable bear-hug.
A rather depressing story at points, I know, but that is
how I surmise what the film will be like. Now it’s your turn! 
