Skinner's behavior, diminutive size, and body language are loosely based on Louis de Funès. Since Gusteau's death, Skinner has used the Gusteau name to market a line of cheap microwaveable meals. Ian Holm as Chef Skinner, a diminutive chef and owner of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant.Director Brad Bird chose Oswalt after hearing his food-related comedy routine. Patton Oswalt as Remy, a rat with heightened senses of taste and smell, enabling a talent and desire for cooking.The rats settle into their new home in the bistro's roof. He then funds and frequents the popular new bistro, La Ratatouille, created and run by Remy, Linguini, and Colette. Upon the release of the health inspector Gusteau's is forced to close due to the presence of rats violating health regulations and Ego loses his job as a critic. Ego is stunned and writes a positive review for the newspaper, stating that Gusteau's chef is "nothing less than the finest chef in France." The rats tie up Skinner and a health inspector to prevent them revealing that rats are cooking, and when Ego requests to see the chef, Linguini and Colette make him wait until the other diners have left before introducing Remy.
Remy creates a ratatouille variation, confit byaldi, which reminds Ego of his mother's cooking. The rats cook while Linguini waits tables. Impressed by Remy's determination, Django and the clan offer to help. Colette returns, recalling Gusteau's motto, "Anyone can cook." Linguini apologizes to Remy, having been unable to cook without him, and reveals the truth to the staff who leave in disbelief. Remy is captured by Skinner to create a line of frozen foodsīut freed by Django and his brother Emile. Remy and Linguini argue, and Remy leads his clan to raid the restaurant's pantries but Linguini drives them out. The critic Anton Ego, whose negative review precipitated Gusteau's death, announces he will dine at the restaurant. He visits his clan in their new lair but he and his father Django fall out over his admiration for humans and Remy leaves. The restaurant thrives, Remy's recipes are hits, a romance develops between Linguini and Colette, and Remy feels left out. Remy gives the evidence to Linguini who deposes Skinner as owner. Skinner and Remy learn that Linguini is Gusteau's illegitimate son and the rightful owner of the restaurant. Skinner assigns the female chef Colette to train his new cook. Instead, Linguini hides Remy under his toque where Remy guides Linguini like a marionette by pulling on his hair. Skinner retains Linguini who is assumed to be the soup's creator, and orders him to kill the rat. Skinner, Gusteau's former sous-chef and new owner, confronts Linguini for tampering with the soup, but while they argue the soup is accidentally served and proves to be a success.
Remy sees that he is ruining it and fixes his mistakes. He sees garbage boy Alfredo Linguini spill a pot of soup and attempt to recreate it. When his family are forced to flee their home he becomes separated from them and eventually finds himself at a skylight overlooking the kitchen of Gusteau's restaurant. Remy is an idealistic and ambitious young rat with highly developed senses of taste and smell who dreams of becoming a chef like his idol, the recently deceased Auguste Gusteau. The plot follows a rat named Remy, who dreams of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an alliance with a Parisian restaurant's garbage boy. The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as Remy, an anthropomorphic rat who is interested in cooking Lou Romano as Linguini, a young garbage boy who befriends Remy Ian Holm as Skinner, the head chef of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant Janeane Garofalo as Colette, a rôtisseur at Gusteau's restaurant Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a restaurant critic Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy's father and leader of his clan Peter Sohn as Emile, Remy's older brother and Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently deceased chef.
The title refers to a French dish, "ratatouille", which is served at the end of the film and is also a play on words about the species of the main character. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar and was co-written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. Ratatouile (/ˌrætəˈtuːi/ RAT-ə-TOO-ee, French: ) is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures.