ratatouille

Hear, hear, jennarenn!

John, you are awesome. We bring up these little things only to trouble-shoot amongst ourselves, never to take you to task. :) (Not that we ever object to improvements--just to any guilt on your part.)

Well, I don't know squat about this, but I've always used < i> tags and they've worked fine thus far. Should I be using < em> just to be safe?

It's cool, no biggie. Just a curiosity. For what it's worth, I tried substituting <i> tags and they didn't work either... then the OCD web standards geek in me came out and I had to promptly change them all back to <em>. ;-)

u, I see that you did use <em> tags, but my little method to check if a comment has balanced tags is somehow thinking yours doesn't, even though I just checked it, and it does. So, it's not, you, it's me. Really. :-)

I'll keep chipping away at these annoyances, my apologies for the slow piecemeal progress.

uselessness, if you use < em> and < /em> tags (without the spaces after <) I think italics will still show up.

How did you get your italics to work? I used them throughout my "review" and they were apparently filtered out. I assumed John just decided he didn't like them anymore. :-)

U, I haven't seen Ratatouille yet, but it's definitely on my short list. I agree; animation isn't just for kids. In fact, sometimes I wonder whether a lot of very finely done animation is in some ways wasted on kids--the craft of it, I mean.

And thanks for the review. ;-)

I need to vent, just a little, and I suppose this is as good a place as any.

Animation is not synonymous with "for children." On Saturday I tried to round up some friends to watch Ratatouille with me, and was turned down repeatedly by disdainful lines like "are you kidding, that's a CARTOON" and "I don't want to watch a stupid kids movie."

Finally I wrangled up a couple open-minded folks and we headed to the theater. Ratatouille is not a kids movie, it is a work of art that's written intelligently for all ages, a true film that deals in the deeper themes of life. My friends who came along remarked at how much "heart" it has. It's not an "adult" movie, per se, but it hasn't been dumbed down for children. It's a serious cinematic work that just happens to be animated, and beautifully so.

Long story short, I'm upset at people for jumping to conclusions. After The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, and now this, Brad Bird has risen to "favorite director" status in my mind. If you're looking for a good movie, however old you are, check out Ratatouille.