Ratatouille has the trademark Pixar charm, but it's visually disappointing and isn't as fun and comical as I've come to expect. The story line is fine, but it's leaning a little too much towards saccharine and none of the characters other than Remy feel real. Alfredo has unclear goals and the fact that he never even gives Remy a name (and instead calls him "Little Chef") further hollows his character. For a Pixar movie, the animation was pretty good for almost everything, but the character models look awful. The rats aren't terrible, but they are much more reminiscent of a Dreamworks animated feature than a Pixar. The human's look terrible, though. Comparing Ratatouille's humans to Andy from the first Toy Story highlights how lazy and ugly Ratatouille's character models are. The story isn't exactly novel and I think they paid too much attention to their ham-fisted message and not enough to the actual story elements. This is the first Pixar movie where I never found anything funny and honestly struggled to find what they though would be funny. The voice acting is good and the audio quality was great, but Patton Oswald plays Remy far to hammy. If it wasn't Pixar, Ratatouille would be a perfectly okay, if bland, animated movie, but knowing what Pixar is capable of and had given us prior to this film, I was very disappointed. The story feels Pixar-ish, but the animation doesn't hit the bar and it's lacking any fun and whimsy.