YMMV / Ratatoing

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • "I forgot we do something special on Thursday night!"
  • The English versions of the preparation scene and the dancing scene add some suggestive-sounding grunts.
  • During the Lock-and-Load Montage, Greg unintentionally appears to pull cheese straight out of his crotch.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Marcel's rivals dance before scaring the human customers. The dancing is abrupt and is never mentioned again.
• Bile Fascination: A common reason why people watch this movie is just to see why it has such a bad reputation.
• Designated Hero: Marcel not only does steals food from a human restaurant and send his rivals to an animal testing lab, but he's the protagonist of the story and is supposed to be rooted for.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Speaking to customers makes Marcel incredibly uncomfortable, to the point where his friends fake a kitchen accident to give him an excuse to escape. This has lead some viewers to believe that he has social anxiety.
• Epileptic Trees: A common fan theory is that the rival rats were taken to NIMH.
• Fetish Retardant: Carol is supposed to be Ms. Fanservice, but the way she moves and the cheap CGI and animation makes it fall flat.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The film and trailer as a whole. Popularized by Walrusguy.
  • Greg's catchphrase "Precisely!"
• Narm: Marcel struggles to lift a chocolate bar, but when the cat starts chasing him, he's able to carry it while running with ease and even surfs on the table with it.
• Padding: Despite the movie being about 42 minutes, there's many scenes designed to pad out the running time, such as repeated scenes of the mice gearing up, about five minutes of Ratatoing's customers praising the food, and the minute-long dance number performed by the villains.
• So Bad, It's Good: To some, thanks to the film's repetitive dialogue ("Precisely"), low-quality animation, and random scenes.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Marcel's rivals. They only cut off his source of fresh ingredients because they believe his restaurant is hurting their business, and that having to risk their lives once a week just to get ingredients is unreasonable. When they find out that sabotaging Marcel's restaurant didn't really help their business, they're forced to try and steal food anyway. While they try to threaten the heroes to give them their cheese, but they immediately agree when Greg tells them to get their own cheese because there's enough for everyone, but the heroes decide to capture them and have them sent to a lab anyway.

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