[Movie] Ratatouille Review

This is the post I made after seeing the sneak preview of Ratatouille. It’s spoiler-free and if for some crazy reason you aren’t wanting to rush out and see this movie the instant it comes out in your country- then read this and it’ll hopefully change your mind.

[Upcoming Movie] Ratatouille 9 Minute Preview

It’s May 1st, which means right now Disney.com is hosting a 9 minute clip of footage from Ratatouille.

 I could gush about it for hours, but I really think this clip speaks for itself. So hurry on over to Disney.com and check it out right now!

I have, however, made 123 screencaps from the preview. Check out the gallery for it HERE!

[Upcoming Movie] Ratatouille Podcasts

Some new goodies have been popping up on the internet lately giving us some behind the scenes peeks into this upcoming Pixar film.

 First off, we get a look at how the animators tackled the cooking element of this film in “Cooking 101″

 This clip features the first we’ve seen of Gusteau- the chef who the restaurant is named after- and Remy’s visions of his idol chef speaking to him. You can check the clip out via Disney.com: HERE.

 The second podcast, as you can probably guess by it’s name “The Technical Ingredients,” focuses on some of the background work they did to get this movie to work on a technical level. One part that really caught my attention is their study of wet clothing and how it sticks to the body. It also has two of the voice actors: Brian Dennehy (“Django”) and Patton Oswalt (“Remy”) talking about the movie.

You can check it out HERE. It might take a bit to load, but it’s very much worth the watch.

P.S. Make sure to keep an eye out for the following tidbits:

With the higher resolution on this podcast, you can see more of the background details. During the clip of Linguini jumping into the Seine river after Remy- you can see the Rose Window of Notre Dame’s Cathedral in the background.

Also, look for the Syndrome figure being used to see how the water in the aquarium reacts to something falling into it. XD

[Manga] From Eroica With Love Volume 1

From Eroica With Love by Yasuko Aoike, is a shoujo manga from 1976 (that is STILL being published off and on out of Japan. Aoike just put out volume 33 in Japan last year.) Its art style runs along the line of other old shoujo titles like Rose of Versailles, but it ends up really growing on you after awhile even if you aren’t that used to it at first.

The first story-arc is a bit campy and rough, but once Major Klaus is introduced it really picks up from there. And by the end of volume 3, it’s very solid from there on out. As for the plot, it’s a mixture of Cold War espionage and drama with comic shounen-ai and theft hijinks.

From ANN:
Dorian Red Gloria, a flamboyant English earl also known as the art thief Eroica, crosses paths with Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, a conservative German NATO intelligence officer. It’s love-hate at first sight. After their first chance meeting, Klaus just can’t seem to shake the thief- they run into each other all over the world, whether accidentally or by Eroica’s machinations, and Eroica and his gang often end up helping or hindering missions being run by the Major and his agents. Soviet spies, British intelligence officers, and an Arab oil prince also make appearances.

In short, if you love any if the following…

- a thick dose of subtext and rival slash.
- comedy and espionage hijinks.
- Spy/War drama during the Cold War.
- anything set in Europe during the 70s.

OR, you’re just up to trying anything new- this series is for you.

 Since I think a lot of people just take the series at surface value I figured I’d blog about it in hopes to get more people into it.

[Upcoming Movie] Ratatouille trailer & behind the scenes interviews

Ratatouille (pronounced, as the handy guide on the posters tells you, as rat-a-too-ee) is the upcoming film by the CG masters of Pixar animation. After tackling toys, bugs, fish, monsters, superheroes, and cars- the studio has moved onto the setting of Paris, France and the humans and rodents that inhabit it.

Summary: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely – and certainly unwanted – visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. 
 

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