PG to 8 (Scary scenes, violence)
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Children under 8 | Parental guidance recommended for children under 8 years. Some scary scenes (e.g. animals in peril, separation from family) and mild violence. |
Children over 8 | OK without parental guidance |
This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.
Name of movie: | Ratatouille |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild animated violence |
Length: | 111 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Remy (Patton Oswalt), a rat with an appreciation of food and a talent for cooking, lives with his family in rural farmhouse. While the other rats steal food and garbage to survive, Remy aspires to higher ideals. His hero is the celebrated, and recently deceased, Chef Gusteau. During a forbidden visit to the farmhouse to watch a cooking show, Remy and subsequently all the rats are discovered and come under attack by the lady who owns the home. In the chaos, Remy is separated from his family and drifts aimlessly in the sewers.
Alone and lost, Remy receives support and advice from an imaginary friend in the form of Gusteau(Brad Garrett), who encourages him to go above ground. To Remy’s delight, he discovers he has in fact drifted into Paris and Gusteau’s restaurant. There he observes the new kitchen hand, Freddo Linguini (Lou Romano), accidentally ruining the soup. Remy steps in to rectify the soup disaster and. Remy’s life is later saved by Linguini. As a result the pair form a partnership which allows Remy to develop and display his culinary talent and enables Linguini to keep his job, fall in love and gain fame.
With success comes increasing expectations and complications. For Remy, the reunion with his family reminds him of the expectation to conform and behave like a rat, not a human. For Linguini, an unexpected connection with Chef Gusteau places him in charge of the restaurant just when a famed restaurant critic, Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole), announces his intention to review the now thriving restaurant. Under this increasing pressure, the friendship is between Remy and Linguini is challenged but for the sake of the restaurant’s survival, they must work together.
Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
Animal distress, Separation from a parent, Bullying
Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
There is some violence in this movie including:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:
Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
Children in this age group could scared or disturbed the above-mentioned violent scenes.
Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
Children in this age group are unlikely to be disturbed by anything in this film.
Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.
Children in this age group are unlikely to be disturbed by anything in this film.
None of concern
None of concern
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Ratatouille is a highly entertaining animated comedy about two misfits trying to succeed in the world of Parisian fine dining. The well-depicted characters, slapstick humour and excellent animation should appeal to children and adults alike.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children the real-life consequences of:
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