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If anybody couldn't figure it out by the title, this is a blatant rip-off of Ratatouille. As anybody knows, movies by Pixar look like they take at least 4 pain-staking years to create, but this movie looks like it was thrown out in 6 hours just a few days before the release of Ratatouille, with the animators frantically hoping they could duplicate the plot with their only reference being the Ratatouille theater commercials.

The animation is god-awful; just picture Data Design Interactive attempting to make their first "interactive children's movie" exclusively on the Atari Jaguar. The characters move around so strangely, it's almost as if they have some kind of mental disorder. The cat that showed up in the official trailer moves around like an orange 800 pound bowling ball on cocaine.

If you think the dialogue would be any better, then you're wrong. Just picture Ratatouille with all the nice textures and remarkable designs simply peeled away. Then add more rats with different colors, disposable personalities, and awful dialog. The dialog goes two ways. Either they put no acting effort into some discussions, or they do and end up sounding like they have down syndrome.

For example, a mouse looking at a menu at the beginning actually says "This one looks very good... that does sound so delicious and it's exactly what I think I want tonight!" To make matters worse, the waitress says soon after "Okay, I'll put this order in the kitchen." Okay... when is the last time I've ever heard a waitress use those exact words? It sounds so awkward, especially since it doesn't sound like the actors are even trying half the time. Imagine if you were being mugged by a thug who leaped in front of you with a bat and then said "I currently want your money! I would like you to be in the giving of it to me or I'll be in the action of hitting your body with my bat!" If you don't end up on the ground laughing, you might feel sorry for this criminal. What's worse is the sudden mood swings the characters can have (due to the abysmal voice acting).

Since I'm on the voice acting, I'll say it doesn't sound like the actors are even trying; it's pretty much as if the good folks at Video Brinquedo kidnapped some tourists that happened to be in Brazil at the time, sat them down into a studio, and had them read a bad script orally at gunpoint.

So should you buy this movie? No. God no. Video Brinquedo made another movie. Run away as fast as you can. If you enjoy bad voice acting you might get a kick out of this, but the laughs will only last so long.

A pure magnanimous plethora of brilliance is not even a fraction of what comes to mind when I look back at the night my eyes were graced upon the asphyxiating beauty of Ratatoing. It's true other people would rather prefer "Ratatouille", a steaming pile of rip-off that rolled off the Pixar conveyor belt last summer, suspiciously around the same era that was enlightened by Ratatoing.

Now I can name a list of films, stories , and conspicuous cartoons that have tried, and miserably failed to resurface the extravagant master piece that graces the name Ratatoing, but that would only make Ratatoing look a whole-of-a-hell-lot better, so much better that simple text could not withhold.

I wish you could hear my voice right now as I recite this review out-loud to my cats.I wish you could hear my voice tremble and break as it gets higher, and higher with every octane of joy that excretes from my mouth.People are trying to restrain me as I type, mistaking my overwhelming urge to spontaneously combust, yes combust into pure energy that would flow into the feeble minded, and make them realize that they have not yet experienced life until they witness that which withholds the name "Toing".

Can I say I have fully witnessed this gracious Brazilian Godsend to the fullest.The answer is no. I have yet to finish the trailer posted on Youtube, do to the fact I rapidly hyper-ventilate when the audio-visual of Ratatoing embeds itself so haplessly into my face.

The only question remains to you, the reader who I have reluctantly with-held the overpowering experience of Ratatoing to, would I recommend this movie? I would not, due to the shambles this film has left me in since it first graced my eyes. Do not witness this false Arc of the covenant, for it is already well said in Raiders of the lost Arc, that it will friggin' melt your face. I must fare thee a good fare-well due to the fact the Insane asylum wards men will any second realize I have escaped my cell, and have broken into a random home to tell the world of that which drove me mad...

It's about some mice who own a restaurant, and other mice come to this restaurant and really like it, because of secret ingredients and things of that nature.

These secret ingredients that are very much enjoyed by customers are stolen by the restaurant owning mice from cats, other kitchens, and things of that nature. These ingredients are brought to the restaurant and cooked in the food. As can be seen there is a vicious cycle in the repetition of having to steal ingredients to make food to satisfy customers-- this is symbolic to the monotony of every day life and labor.

The restaurant owning mice are alienated from their lives, as they spend most of their waking moments laboring, either in the restaurant or stealing from cats. The source of their alienation is their vulgar profit making motive-- as they obtain the ingredients to enhance their cuisine not through exchange, but through stealing. Our owning mice are placed in the situation where they have to steal as they cannot or choose not to interact and exchange in the marketplace to obtain the secret ingredients. Such desperate measures lengthen the working day and thus their alienation.

This alienation is expressed by the animators with the thread bare backgrounds, and scenery. Nothing retains any sense of texture, all is smooth-- the characters don't appear furry, neither does the background range from course, splintery, or downy. All visual stimulation is sucked dry-- the characters are lifeless and soulless.

Oh I haven't watched the film yet, I don't intend to, because it looks like it sucks horribly.

This is crap. That is simply what it is. The executives at Video Brinquedo are just a bunch of plagiarizing, no-good, lying, effortless, dirty scumbag hacks and, believe me when I say you'll feel the same way after watching ANY of their films, I would totally laugh if any of them got arrested for copyright infringement and they had to become someone's b*tches in jail. That's how bad ALL of their films are. What's the first thing that comes to mind when I say the names of some of their films: Ratatoing, Gladiformers, What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue, The Little Panda Fighter, and The Little Cars. If you said Ratatouille, Transformers, Up, Kung Fu Panda, and Cars, you're right! They don't even try to hide the fact that they are stealing ideas! I don't know how they do things down in Brazil, but here in America that's illegal. But I might be a little less harsh on it if they bothered to put any effort into ANY of their movies. But they don't. None whatsoever. Here's Ratatoing as an obvious rip-off of Ratatouille. Yes, it's basically the same plot, a rat likes to cook so he owns his own restaurant. But this time it's not in Paris, it's in for some reason Rio De Janiero! WHY?! And if it's there, why are none of the names in Porteguese (or Spanish, pardon me if I'm wrong)? Continuity and congruency are the least of this movie's problems. The acting is bad. That's all I can say, as that's expected. The dialogue is epic crap. The animation is a billion times worse (This makes either that old Legend of Zelda computer game or the paper clip computer graphic on Microsoft Word look like Toy Story). There is nothing else to say that I haven't said already. There is no effort and it makes it look like no one tried. But here's the thing: the atmosphere of not trying is so big that it comes off as if they tried really hard to make it look like they didn't try hard. This isn't anything like "The Room" or "Star Wars: Holiday Special", where everything is so horrible that you need to see it for yourself. This is one of those "Avoid like the plague" instances. I hope Video Brinquedo is terminated and I really do hope that the scumbag executives get arrested for plagiarism and copyright infringement for EACH MOVIE THEY RIPPED-OFF!!!

Heck, let's ignore the fact that every film by this Brazillian company is ripping off a successful American film. Is it still enjoyable? No! It only manages to get more than 1 star simply due to the fact that it's unintentionally funny with how bad it is.

The story's weak and almost non-existent. For the most part, the writers just try to pad it out by repeating the boring suiting up sequence, dedicating the first 5 minutes to characters talking about how great the food at Ratatoing is and god knows what else. The script is also pretty bad but not too bad, but does precisely need to be a catchphrase? Really? Just be thankful it didn't hit theatres first.

The animations are just... laughable, really. I've seen much better from light-wave, and that's the cheapest form of CGI animation out there. What's more is that every other movie of this kind with the exception of the Frog Prince is just as horribly animated. The worst example is that cat. No cat moves like that! It looks so awkward for that thing to move! Ultimately, even if you think of this movie as a parody it's still hard to enjoy it. Again, it gets points for being unintentionally funny but that's about it.

Great Sequel! Ratatouille was a favorite but Ratatoing was , in my option, WAY better.

Although, the animation was a half a step down form the original, the plot really made up for it.

I really enjoyed (and thought was fun) in the 10 + plus minute scene where they only talked about how amazing the food was. It really made my mouth water too.

I also found it touching how remy tamed the cat. It really goes to show that food really can bring people closer together.

In the movie, remy makes one strawberry last an entire week. It really amazes me how he takes, what seems like so little, and makes it last a whole week. I find it to be a lesson, applicable to all, that the little things matter the most in life.

The only question I have left is how did remy get to Rio? Hopefully it will be answered in the closing film in this spectacular trilogy, "Ratatoed"

This is one of the earlier rip offs I watched on Amazon Prime. I barely made it through with literally 2 minutes left. It was extremely hard to sit through with its AWFUL pace, awful animation, awful music, and annoying voices by good actors. The movie is I think 40 minutes but it felt like hours as the first 10 minutes was dedicated to the rats saying how good the food is, literally leaving me believing that the characters will NOT leave the restaurant, which is extremely lazy and boring. I can't remember the story because that's how short my attention span was. This movie should not be seen by anyone, as just the way it looks is enough for children to want to tear your eyes out. Ratatouille is much more lovable, friendly, easy on the eyes, and wonderful.

And when I say that it's one of the worst, I mean the second worst, right after other video brinquido rip off "The Little Cars in the Great race," which I can't review since it doesn't have it's own IMDb page.

It' pretty easy to mock video brinquido, you can't even give them points for trying since they rip off other, much better movies. They're like the Asylum, except worse.

The movie is about a group of 3 rats that steal food from a human kitchen to make they're reasturaunt the best in the town. They eventually are found out by competition and mouse traps and a cat are placed in the kitchen. What surprises me is that this 45 minute movie has so much filler.

The animation is horrible, I mean horrible, it basically looks like a movie that hasn't been finished yet. The acting is annoying, it's boring in a lot of places, and like I said, there is no effort, it's a rip off. And I haven't seen Ratatouille, so you know it's bad. The only saving grace is that some moments are so bad they're good, like the cheese in the crotch and the animation glitches, other than that, it's horrible.

This was really good if it was supposed to be a horror movie.

This movie is inept in more ways than one. The animation is simply horrendous, the dialogue is bland in a way, the backgrounds styles, and textures are unappealing, and the plot is boring. This is perhaps one of the most garbage movies I've watched ever in my existence. This however, is probably funny in an ironic sort of way. I found myself laughing at its ineptitude and how bad it is. I think Greg the stupid rodent saying "PRECISELY" over and over again is the funniest part of the movie. I adore this movie and it's ability of being inept. Another great thing about this motion picture is that it is short, as shown by the 45 minute run time, which is close to or the minimum time for this to be recognized as a "feature film". Video Brinquedo's style of sh*t making movies out is like seeing that one relative you see once a year, so they give you a bad gift, because they don't know what you want, just like how Video Brinquedo perhaps doesn't understand the basic needs and wants of an audience. It's a great movie if your playing video games and you want to watch something bad , or if you enjoy bad movies, or you want to watch it With a group of friends, you can have a field day with this crappy work of art.

This is the lowest common denominator of children's entertainment, it's just that bad. The story is written as a story that was "inspired by" Ratatouille as opposed to just ripping it off, in-which it did. The characters are bland, the story is bland, the animation is horrible, and the voice cast is just unbearable. The villain rat group are epic fail. The voice of the mouse when he says "precisely" sounds like it was copied and pasted in. One out of ten. This is the worst kids' feature ever. It was made by a group of Brazillian filmmakers who try to cash in on the success of other animated features that grace the Box Office.

I love animation, but I saw Ratatoing out of curiosity after hearing people say how bad it was. And while I have seen worse animated films, like Spiders Web:A Pig's Tale, Titanic:The Animated Movie and Animals United, Ratatoing is just garbage.

The animation is terrible, very static in the backgrounds and bland in the colour palette, and to make things worse the character designs are some of the most forced I've seen. The writing is even worse unfortunately, it is unfunny and juvenile and written with no heart.

The story is very unoriginal(no surprise seeing as I've seen it all before with Pixar's Ratatouille except a thousand times better), and is too thin and rushed to sustain a film that is less than 50 minutes in length. None of the characters are likable or endearing, and pretty much no effort goes into the voice work.

So overall, Ratatoing is garbage. 0/10 Bethany Cox

Honestly, this movie was the worst thing to exist. Why I say that is because half the movie is the same scenes happening twice. Surprisingly the only reason I was even able to watch this movie is that it was on YouTube. Yes, I'm not lying. The company put the movie on YouTube. The whole time watching this movie I was bored. Of course, I know it's a bootleg so of course, it will be boring. But it's like so it was 40 minute's or whatever how long it was they USED the same scenes OVER AND OVER. Like can you get a real life? I mean one of the characters say precisely over and over again. Like that's about all he says. They have basically pure black eyes with white dots. Like they couldn't think of real eyes. The animation and people and all of that look like it were made with blender. And looks like the backgrounds are decals. Not lying it look like low-quality backgrounds. Like, of course, it's a bootleg so I am NOT surprised. But this movie is the worst all I can say for it is terrible and trashy. So please don't watch this.

It's trash can you believe that there are people that love this and think ratatouille is a rip off of ratatoing?but while it is garbage is less garbage than video briquendo"s aka video lazyripoffendo's other works

You know that movie studio named "The Asylum". Imagine an "Asylum" film ripping off something except it's an animated rip-off of a good animated movie, and it sucks way worse than the usual "Asylum" movie. This movie is unbelievable. The voice acting is terrible, the dialogue is horrendous, the animation looks like it was made over a decade ago, and it is one of the dullest pieces of crap I have ever seen. This really is as low grade as animated films get. It flat out sucks. Nothing at all is good. Every last moment is torture. Well I guess I should go into a little more detail on the flaws. First the voice actors seem to come from the Troll 2 acting school. This is an Brazilian production, and Troll 2 was an Italian one. With Troll 2 the actors barley understood English, but were forced to act in English. With how bad the acting was for this movie I'm guessing that was the same case with this film. The dialogue is flat out terrible. Any joke made is not funny at all, and the conversations between characters are boring. Then there is the simply awful CGI. Veggietales had better CGI, and that was made years before this movie. There are youtube videos with more effort put into the CGI! It is vomit inducing. Then we have the fact that film is one of the boring films I have ever watched. Conversations go on forever, scenes go on forever, and the film goes on forever despite being only 45 minutes long. This is so bad. Just so bad.

0 stars out of 4

Video Brinquedo created "Ratatoing" capitalize on the popularity of Disney's "Ratatouille". However, in almost no way can you compare the two. Sure, they're both films and they both are about rat chefs...but that's where the similarity ends. While "Ratatouille" is a charming and well-crafted film, "Ratatoing" is essentially garbage...a charmless, ugly and horribly animated movie. It's so ugly and awful that I can't even see children enjoying anything about the movie. With CGI that looks like it was created in the 1980s or early 90s (at best) and a dull story, it's a real chore to finish this mess.

The story, if you care, is about a rat chef who has to retrieve secret ingredients. The rat patrons wonder how they get the wonderful food and this is because at night the restaurant workers go in search of human food on Thursday nights. There's a bit more to it than this (such as some competing rat restaurant wanting to steal Ratatoing's secrets) but none of it is interesting in any way.

Is this the worst children's film ever? Possibly. I am not sure I'd call it that because it really was never intended as a theatrical piece...just a super-cheap and crappy direct-to-video fiasco whose awfulness is hard to imagine....you need to see its awfulness for yourself to believe it!

I give this one one star...simply because IMDB doesn't allow a score of zero.

I entered into this movie a child. unsuspecting. naïve. this movie changed me. the delicate and thoughtful dialogue made me both laugh and cry. there is nothing that can ever come close to the level of detail and nuance that this film so beautifully portrays. the animation out does any animation studio you could name- pixar and disney bow at its rat themed feet. i have never in my life seen a film that is so inspiring and motivational, and i implore all of you to watch this masterpiece.

Visually this movie hurts my eyes so I refuse to watch it. But also it seems pretty ironically hilarious. If you watch the trailer that rat is the last thing you see before you sleep at night and the animation will scar you for life. And I haven't even watched it in full. But hey they're adding my boy Marcelle Toing to smash bros, so there's that.

Pixar is arguably one of the greatest animation companies of all time. Almost every film to be produced from them are masterpieces, while even the weaker ones are still great films. Therefore, because of Pixar's success, many have tried, and failed, to replicate their success.

But one company, Video Brinquedo, brings this to a whole new level. The Brazilian company flat out copies popular films. And they suck. Horribly. And nothing says this more than Ratatoing.

Ratatoing, if you didn't know already, is a copy of Ratatouille. But there is a big difference between the two films. And I mean BIG difference. While the animation of Pixar's films take painstaking amounts of time to make, this film's animation looks lazy, cheap, and unfinished. The quality of the animation looks like N64 quality. If you don't believe me, watch the trailer. Or see the cat, that looks like a orange ball of fat walking on two legs like a fatso.

The story goes like this: Marcel Toing (quite possibly the funniest name for a character I've heard) runs the most popular restaurant in Rio, Ratatoing. Many try to steal his recipes, but fail. Every week, him and his friends Carol and Greg go and raid the human restaurant for ingredients. Meanwhile, some of the dumbest villains in film history try and stop Marcel and friends so their own eateries can get more business. That's it. If you think I'm leaving something out, trust me, that's as deep as the story goes.

The voice acting. Dear god the voice acting. The characters all sound annoying and laughable or stupid and forgettable. It's a bit understandable, because all the actors are from 4kids cartoons. And don't even get me started on the dialogue. Greg's catchphrase, "Precisely" is repeated 7 times (yes I counted) throughout the film, and the innuendo is so obvious you are left facepalming. Also, count how many times they compliment the food. I dare you.

And yet... it's funny. Watching the train-wreak unfold is so hilarious that you can't take your eyes off it. The animation, dialogue, stupid characters, and story are so bad that it's incredible something like this was made. But I recommend you see it in a group, so you don't go insane.

Should you see Ratatoing? If you have some buddies, love Z movies, and want to see how low animation can go, go for it. But for the rest of you, stay far, far, FAR away from this one. But I guarantee, if you see this film, you will look back at my review and say: "Precisely!"