Every Pixar Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

11. Ratatouille

More so even than Cars, Ratatouille proves the old suspicion that there wasn't anything Pixar couldn't make utterly charming and entirely watchable. After all, who would have thought that the story of a self-taught gourmet rat who takes over a kitchen in Paris and dazzles everyone with his skills would have been anything other than horrifying?

That it works is mostly thanks to the charm of the two central characters - both rat and human - as well as a brilliant vocal performance by Patton Oswalt, and a film stealing cameo by Peter O'Toole's twisted food critic.

The film is like an emotion poem: as with The Incredibles' nostalgia and The Iron Giant's devastating love and loss, Brad Bird soaks it in feeling (triumph, personal validation, love) to the point where eating at Remy's restaurant feels legitmately aspirational.

And there's still never been anything close to the quality of Anton Ego's soliloquy denouncing critics in a Pixar film (or any film) since. While it could have felt like the self-serving whinging of a director decrying harmful criticism, it actually comes off as a beautifully intelligent call for the sanctity of the artist. In a kids' film!