Every Pixar Movie Ranked Worst To Best

8. Ratatouille

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Ratatouille still has the finest single piece of writing in any Pixar film. It comes right at the end when supposed "villain" of the piece, Anton Ego tastes Remy's ratatouille for the first time and then discovers the truth about the rat gourmet. Watching his gentle soliloquy denouncing critics completely is about the most profound thing you'll ever see in an animation.

This charming little film proves without a shadow of a doubt that there's nothing that Pixar couldn't make delightful. It's about a rat cooking human food. Delicious, award-worthy human food so tasty that nobody cares that it was made by a rat. That's the power of infectious story-telling right there.

The film works mostly because of Patton Oswalt's performance and the dynamic between Remy and Linguini, but there's definitely an element of it being brilliant because there's no way it should ever have worked as well as it did.

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