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This is me. I think it's apparent that I need to rethink my life a little bit. What's my problem? First of all, I'm a rat. Which means life is hard. And second, I have a highly developed sense of taste and smell.
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~ Remy's narration
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If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.
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~ Remy
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I know I'm supposed to hate humans, but there's something about them. They don't just survive, they discover, they create. I mean, just look at what they do with food.
Remy (also known as Little Chef) is the main protagonist of Pixar's 8th full-length animated feature film Ratatouille. He is a bluish-gray rat from Paris with a passion for food, and dreams of becoming a professional chef.
Remy is a rat who simply adores food and it's quality, who befriended a spectral representation of the late Auguste Gusteau, Remy's hero. Due to his love for food, he has a strong sense of smell, earning him a job as poison-checker amongst the rat's clan, by Remy's father, Django. Due to his gift with food, he always thinks that whatever he thinks is always correct, which it always is, and always tries his best to make the food he makes high-standard. He also has an interest in humans, because of how they customize food in an exquisite way, and soon becomes quite close to one particular human, Alfredo Linguini, who affectionately calls him "Little Chef" and cannot cook.
He is not a typical rat, and his personality is mostly like one of a human, as he walks on 2 feet, instead of 4. What he thinks of his talent is a bit of modesty, as shown when Linguini asked him if he could actually cook. Towards the fact that he is not really a typical rat, this concerns his father excessively, and he always ends up in arguments with him to do with his ways.
His overall dream is to become a chef, and he is always tempted to cook wherever he finds what he needs. When he finds Linguini, and realizes he can control his actions with his hair, he immediately cooks food of extremely high-standard, hiding under Linguini's toque, and everyone buys his dishes by asking for the "Special Order".
At the end of Ratatouille, Remy's dream comes true and he becomes a chef at the La Ratatouille bistro in Paris.
Role in the film[]
In the beginning of the film, it is revealed that Remy possesses a very strong sense of smell, able to deduce various ingredients in food. His brother Emile is readily impressed, while his father, the rat clan chief, is not but pleased when Remy is assigned as rat poison checker when he almost ate a poisoned apple core, sniffing every bit of garbage for poison, despite the fact that job is essential for the survival of the rat clan. Remy's father is also annoyed about Remy's attitude towards eating garbage, Remy claims that is unhealthy for rats and they ought to try to take the good food found in the kitchens and pantries of the humans. Therefore, Remy makes constant forages to the nearest kitchen, in an old lady's house in the countryside, where the clan is also located. Remy is also able to learn to read and understand the human language. Remy idolizes the famed chef, Auguste Gusteau, with his motto: "Anyone can cook!"
With his sense of smell, Remy slowly realizes how to improve food by combining tastes together. One day, he and his brother Emile were smoking a mushroom by the chimney, before being struck by a flash of lightning. Impressed by the popcorned mushroom, the two venture into the kitchen for saffron. The old lady is asleep, but a TV is on where Remy hears the news that Gusteau has died. The old lady awakes, sees the rats and promptly produces a shotgun and blasts the walls and roof. Her inaccurate shooting, however, brings down part of the ceiling where the entire rat clan lives. Remy's father calls for a Dunquerque style evacuation, fleeing out to a stream and paddling off on rubbish. Remy runs back to grab a Gusteau cookbook and flees, trailing behind.
He paddles into the stream, under fire from the old lady but loses sight of the clan in the sewers. The sewers contained rapids and displaying incredible water physics, Remy is alone. Absentmindedly, Remy flicks through his cookbook's pages where an illustration of Gusteau comes to life, animated by Remy's lonely imagination. Gusteau instructs Remy to go out and look for food; Remy complies and witnesses aspects of Parisian life before surveying the magnificent night scenery and finding himself located right next to Gusteau's restaurant.
Remy climbs onto the restaurant's skylight and sees the working of a quality kitchen, where he witnesses Linguini, a clumsy garbage boy, spill a pot of soup and add water and various random ingredients to make up for it. Remy is horrified by this sacrilege to good food, and falls from the skylight.
Almost getting roast, cooked, chopped and seen, Remy gets to the soup undetected and was about to make good on his escape via an open window. He halts and then proceeds to add ingredients into the soup, and was caught red-handed by a stunned Linguini. Remy was hastily hidden away when the restaurant's new owner Skinner sees a soup ladle in Linguini's hand and berates him for cooking. The soup is served to Linguini's dismay, but proved popular to a critic. Remy, pleased, was about to escape but was caught. Linguini was told to hastily dispose of him, trapped in a jar, and he cycled to the River Seine to dump him.
Linguini was about to drop Remy but desists, noticing that Remy could understand him talking. Linguini quickly figures out that he can not cook, while Remy can. Linguini releases him, and takes Remy into his apartment. There Remy learns a way to work with Linguini to cook while Remy can remain covertly hidden which is to use Linguini's hair to control Linguini like a puppet.
Remy helps Linguini recreate the soup to prove to Skinner that the success was not a fluke on Linguini's part but Remy's talents remain anonymous. When Skinner sees the soup he gives Linguini the cooking job but still is suspicious wondering where Linguini suddenly got his new talents. While seeing Linguini work he sometimes spots Remy with him but when he looks again Remy has vanished deeply confusing Skinner. Both Linguini and Remy are unaware that Skinner has been spying on Linguini and Skinner secretly takes some of Linguini's hairs for his lawyer to examine due to the fact that Linguini is Gusteau's son and the owner of the restaurant. This would challenge Skinner's hopes to continue his new frozen food line used in Gusteau's image.
When Remy learns this revelation, he steals the documents but in return is chased by Skinner. Remy climbs aboard a boat but Skinner refuses to lose and pursues Remy boat by boat ending with Skinner accidentally falling into the the canal when jumping between 2 boats; and seeing Remy run back to the restaurant with the documents. Later that day, Skinner loses the restaurant's business interests, and with it the restaurant and frozen food lines. Linguini takes control as the rightful owner and Skinner either is fired or resigns not wanting to work under Linguini. Linguini also provides Remy with a new wonderful posh apartment to live in with him.
One night, Remy unexpectedly reunites with his family who believed him to have died in the rapids of the sewers. Django asks Remy to stay but Remy shows his loyalty to Linguini having bonded with his new human friend while being absent from his rat colony.
However, Remy gets confused when he sees Linguini bonding with Colette, the only woman cook in the kitchen, and crediting his talents to her. Remy gets attention from Linguini and gives him a wake-up call reminding him of Remy's true part in the cooking. However, Linguini is unconvinced in it and throws Remy out. In retaliation Remy lets his family raid the kitchen one night but Linguini, wanting to reconcile accidentally discovers them and, in rage, throws them out.
Remy is so guilty that he again ditches the family to think over what to do now, at the apartment. The news then breaks out that one of Gusteau's mortal rivals; France's top food critic Anton Ego who gave Gusteau's a scathing review in the past that eventually resulted in Gusteau's death; will come again to review the restaurant. The next evening, Remy tries to wait for the perfect moment to help Linguini or try to reconcile but is captured by Skinner who uses blackmail to order Remy to create a new successful frozen foods line. Emile sees what has happened and brings Django to help him free Remy from Skinner's limousine. Linguini realizes that he cannot work on the food without Remy, and when Remy returns, Linguini is so happy to see him again that he is forced to admit to the staff the truth. In reply the staff all quit their jobs believing that Linguini is insane. Colette initially quits her job too but returns when remembering her idol Gusteau's motto; Anyone Can Cook.
With help from Remy's colony, Linguini, Colette and Remy present to Anton Ego and a disguised Skinner a version of an ancient dish, ratatouille. Anton Ego loves it when realizing that his mother made it for him when he was younger and now a changed man, Ego asks for the chef to thank for the dish. When Skinner sees that Ego is impressed, he tastes it and when trying to find out who cooked it, he finds out that Remy's rat colony did it. Skinner is then locked in the room with a health inspector Skinner had previously summoned. Ego is told to wait until all customers have left, to see the chef. Hours later, they reveal Remy to Ego. At first Ego thinks they are joking but when they explain and demonstrate it, a stunned Ego thanks them, walks back home and writes a wonderful review.
The next morning, Ego puts his review in the newspaper but because Skinner and the Health Inspector had to be freed, word got out there were rats in the kitchen, leading the restaurant to be closed and Ego to lose his job and his credibility.
Although very disappointed to lose a very successful, legendary restaurant to Skinner and the Health department, Remy, Linguini and Colette take it well and to recover from their business collapsing, they buy out a new building and there they start a new restaurant modeled after Gusteau's called La Ratatouille to continue the Gusteau legacy. Ego becomes a small business investor and helps Linguini and Colette fund the restaurant with Remy as the chef and owner, Linguini as the waiter, Colette as the sous-chef, and Ego the sponsor and co-owner.
Other Appearances[]
Your Friend the Rat[]
In the animated comedy short, Remy is the main protagonist. He and Emile teach the viewers about the history of the rat in an attempt to bring a better understanding between the two species.
Disney Parks[]
Remy makes appearances at the Disney theme parks, especially in Disneyland Paris, and at the EPCOT France Pavilion at the Walt Disney World Resort. He is often seen in Pixar-based entertainment including The Pixar Play Parade at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Remy is the star of his own segment in the Disneyland Paris show, Disney Dreams!.
EPCOT World Showcase Paris[]
Remy is the official mascot in the diner Chef's De France, and walks around the diner with somebody by his side visiting the customers' table to table with a few jokes and surprises.
Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy[]
In the Walt Disney Studios Park, Remy has his own motion - based dark ride that debuted on July 10, 2014.
Kingdom Hearts III[]
Remy is first discovered by Sora, Donald, and Goofy in the woods of Twilight Town, where they save him from being attacked by a group of Heartless. After the Heartless are destroyed, Remy jumps onto Sora's head and controls him using his hair like he did with Linguini in the film, making him pick up some apples from the ground. Sora, Donald and Goofy then come up with the idea to collect ingredients for him as they travel through the worlds.
When Sora returns to the Twilight Town Square, he meets Scrooge McDuck outside the bistro, who reveals that Remy is the bistro's chef and that he met the rat when he was eating at a restaurant and asked to see who the chef was, and then decided to make him the chef of his own bistro. Sora can now play a minigame where he uses the ingredients he finds to cook food that gives him various temporary stat boosts with the help of Remy. If Sora completes all of Remy's recipes, he will receive an optional Ratatouille-themed Keyblade.
In the game, Remy is simply known as "Little Chef" due to the fact that he cannot speak to non-rats, so the other characters can't know his actual name.
Trivia[]
Remy was listed #41 in Empire Magazine's The 50 Best Animated Movie Characters.
In WALL-E, a tribute to Remy is shown as a robot named REM-E, shown onboard the Axiom inside the garbage chute.
Remy is the second Pixar protagonist who doesn't have a love interest, after Sulley and before Princess Merida.
Both have protective fathers who are against the humans.
Both have a dream that somewhat involves being with humans. Ariel wants to be with Prince Eric while Remy wants to be a chef.
Both have companions who are the only ones who know about their secret fascination with the humans, but eventually spill the beans (Flounder and Sebastian for Ariel, Emile for Remy).
Both befriend a human (Eric, Linguini).
Both are saved by their human friends, making their fathers realize they were wrong about them.
Both finally get their dreams in the end.
Remy is also similar to Gusto Gummi from Gummi Bears in the sense that they both have talents, tried to help a boy use his talent to the public without getting discovered, get jealous that the boy gets all the credit instead of him, and also try to avoid another rival aiming for the boy's position.
Remy is also similar to Tiana from The Princess and the Frog, since they both have dreamed of opening restaurants and have successfully done so.
His name means "oarsman" or "rower", which is derived from French, fitting his journey from being an ordinary sewer rat to becoming a well-experienced chef under the influence of Chef Auguste Gusteau.
Interestingly, during the first few moments of the film, he once used a now-damaged spatula as an improvised oar, as a way to escape from the musophobic old lady Mabel.
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