Line #8 WesternAnimation/Ratatoing


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2	%% [[caption-width-right:250:Marcel Toing knows where to find [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} the freshest ingredients.]]]]
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4	->''"Meet Marcel [[InherentlyFunnyWords Toing]]! Proud owner of restaurant [[TitleDrop Ratatoing]]!"''
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6	An animated movie from Creator/VideoBrinquedo.
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8	Marcel Toing is a talking rat living in a world of talking rats, who owns the famous restaurant Ratatoing. After closing time, he and his friends Carol and Greg get the food from other places to use in their restaurant. Meanwhile, a group of villain mice plan to find out the secret of the recipes.
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10	Contrast ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', since it's a [[TheMockbuster knockoff]] of it -- kind of. The film's plot (such as it is) has little in common with the Pixar film.
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12	!!This film provides examples of:
13	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Some of the female rats wear necklaces.
14	* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Toing and his friends are shown attempting to steal chocolate for their restaurant. While rats can handle chocolate better than dogs, it's still not healthy for them due to it being full of caffeine and refined sugar.
15	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Of the [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM Sally Acorn-esque]] "boobs without nipples" variety for the female rats.
16	* BilingualBonus: "Toing" is a Spanish onomatopoeia for a squeaking sound, which fits with the movie being about rats.
17	* BuffoonishTomcat: This is rather reminiscent of [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Tom from Tom and Jerry]] and/or an [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]]-esque style in two scenes where Marcel deceives the fat cat named Palo that was chasing him and having the cat chasing him when reappearing (also the cat's [[SillyWalk amusing running animation]] when standing up helps out his clownish "{{Dumb Muscle}}" look as well).
18	%%* CardCarryingVillain: "We're so bad!", one of the villains gloats.
19	* CharacterCatchphrase: Greg says "Precisely!" eleven times during the movie.
20	* CharacterShilling: Fills the first ten minutes of the runtime, with everyone sitting in the restaurant talking about how great the food and the chef is.
21	* CityWithNoName: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. While explicitly Rio de Janeiro, it is referred to only as "the marvelous city" and "this city" in the English dub. Without context, it seems like the narrator is going out of his way to avoid saying the name of the city, but "the Marvelous City" ("Cidade Maravilhosa" in Portuguese) is actually a common nickname for Rio in Brazil.
22	* CoversAlwaysLie: The official DVD box art (as seen on the page image) depicts Marcel wearing a chef's gown and hat. He never wears it in the movie proper.
23	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Much of the dialogue in the movie consists of characters repeating the same things, with another character [[ParrotExposition repeating what someone just said]], pointing out something which is obvious from the visuals, or repeating what someone just said.
24	* DisproportionateRetribution: Marcel and his friends catch the rivals trying to sabotage their restaurant and get them sent to an out of town laboratory.
25	* DoubleEntendre: When Marcel, Carol and Greg are going to the kitchen to steal more food:
26	--> '''Carol:''' Hey, my handsome friend, are you ready for more food adventures tonight?
27	--> '''Marcel:''' I'm always ready, because I know how to keep my equipment prepared!
28	* EasilyForgiven: Downplayed. Marcel has two of his competitors sent to an out of town laboratory. Their wives aren't exactly thrilled with this, but continue to come and eat at his restaurant anyway.
29	* EekAMouse: As part of the villain's plan. They scare the patrons of the human restaurant, so they increase "security" and make it harder for Marcel to get ingredients.
30	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: From Greg saying his [[CharacterCatchphrase Catchphrase]]. He even says it again while they're laughing!
31	* FailedASpotCheck:
32	--> '''Marcel:''' Just look at all that delicious cheese just waiting to be taken!
33	--> '''Carol:''' Oh really? But what about the cat?
34	--> '''Marcel:''' There's no sign of him, I checked everywhere!
35	--> '''Greg:''' Look behind you, Marcel! cut to cat standing directly behind Marcel
36	** Greg fails to notice one of the antagonists using the secret tunnel, directly in front of him. Although considering Marcel couldn't see the strawberries on the table without using a pair of night-vision goggles, perhaps they just couldn't see it.
37	* FillingTheSilence: Marcel and company's gear-up montages don't have a word of dialogue, nor does the scene where the rival rats scare the humans. In both cases, the English dub improvises some hums and grunts to go with the characters' movement.
38	* FlyInTheSoup: Played with; one of the villains seems to notice a fly in his meal and calls the waiter over to complain, [[SubvertedTrope but]] it's to complain that he ordered the flies in Gorgonzola sauce, and his meal clearly has Camembert sauce instead. This BaitAndSwitch is justified by the fact that he's a rat who wouldn't be put off by eating flies.
39	* {{Gonk}}: Palo the cat has a weird design [[NonStandardCharacterDesign that stands out from the rats]].
40	* TheHeart: Carol acts as a mediator to Marcel and Greg.
41	* HeelFaceTurn: Shown with Palo the cat, after having been fed by Marcel. It cooperates with him to take out the rival rats and becomes a recurring customer in his restaurant afterward.
42	* IdiotBall:
43	** Despite seeing how Greg turned on the ceiling fan, Carol still takes a minute and a half to turn it off again, while being given very simple instructions.
44	** Greg decides to grab hold of Marcel [[AchievementsInIgnorance instead of turning off the fan despite knowing how to operate it]].
45	* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Reiterated repeatedly. It's not so much that the food or Marcel's cooking is special -- it's that the customers have only ever eaten things that came out of the trash.
46	* InformedAbility: The first twelve minutes of Ratatoing are nothing but customers repeating how good Marcel Toing's food is. The sight of the actual food itself would suggest otherwise. Then again, they are [[ExtremeOmnivore rats]].
47	** ''Perishable'' food which is just left lying on the table all night. And he makes it last all week without refrigeration since he only steals on Thursdays. Still wondering why the cooking pot he constantly stirs is filled with brown sludge?
48	%%* InherentlyFunnyWords:
49	%%** TOING.
50	%%** Precisely!
51	* {{Irony}}: Greg is supposed to be [[FatIdiot the idiot,]] but ends up coming across as [[SmarterThanYouLook one of the smarter characters in the movie.]]
52	* KarmaHoudini: No one has a problem with Marcel having his competitors taken to be used as test rats in a laboratory (although one of the antagonists reveals they're being treated very well there).
53	* LockAndLoadMontage: Which gets used ''three'' times in the film. And has Greg pulling chunks of cheese from his crotch.
54	* LostInTranslation:
55	** The movie is obviously supposed to take place in Rio de Janeiro, but in the English version it's only ever referred to by its Brazilian nickname "the Marvelous City", making it seem like the narrator is keeping the true setting a secret.
56	** A restaurant patron casually saying she'd come from "a great distance" (instead of, for example, "all the way from Brasilia") to sample the delicious food.
57	** In spite of the film itself never mentioning Rio de Janeiro by name, its English trailer does.
58	* MegaNeko: Palo to the rats. Although this only applies to the them because Palo seems smaller than typical cats when he is seen with people.
59	* TheMockbuster: ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' with a bit of ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' as well.
60	* NamesakeGag: The restaurant is named "Ratatoing", after its owner and founder, Marcel Toing.
61	* NoNameGiven: Oscar's wife is called "Brown Haired Rat" by the credits.
62	* OddlySmallOrganization: Only four rats appear to work at Marcel's restaurant.
63	* PaletteSwap: Most of the rats are recolors of the same two models with hairpieces added.
64	* PinkMeansFeminine: The heroine rat Carol is pink.
65	* SeriesContinuityError: Carol states that they've "never had any chocolate before" in their restaurant, but in an earlier scene they offered a customer chocolate sponge cake with ice cream and biscuit bran.
66	* ShoutOut:
67	** On the food raids, Greg wears a black beanie hat, essentially giving him WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse ears.
68	** One of the paintings is a mouse version of the Mona Lisa.
69	* SillyWalk: Rather a 'Silly Run' variant with Palo running in a very silly manner.
70	* StockFootage: The scene with the trio prepping to raid the human kitchen is reused in its entirety later in the movie.
71	* SupermodelStrut: All of the female rats sway their hips while walking.
72	* ThrivingGhostTown: The narrator describes Rio as full of people, while showing an empty street.
73	* VillainProtagonist: Marcel's a liar, a thief, and sends any rats who know his secret off to a lab to be test subjects... and he's the main character.
74	* YouDirtyRat: Zigzagged as rats are both heroes and villains.

Context WesternAnimation / Ratatoing