Moreover, he still uses accordions, guitars, among other instruments to try to keep the style focused on the French theme. This track contains elements that Giacchino used in his Medal of Honor scores. “A Real Gourmet Kitchen” is, in my opinion, the best track of this album.
Eventually, this piece evolves into a very sentimental piece that gradually begins to emulate George Fenton’s jazzy scores for romantic comedies. In “Wall Rat,” for instance, the flutes have those "pseudo Jean-Pierre Rampal riffs" that are outstanding. Let me say that in all of these tracks the instruments’ ranges and timbres are very well used, hence making the orchestrations sound very solid and full. “100 Rat Dash” is an exhilarating piece that contains both dramatic and humorous moments within it. Still, some of the first tracks like “Granny Get Your Gun,” “100 Rat Dash,” and “This is me”, offer very interesting musical moments. Admittedly, I couldn’t understand the song itself, yet the vocals are clear and very beautiful.Ī few tracks are fairly short in duration, thus having many musical fragments that never connect with one another. The chord progressions are very mellow, sweet, and extremely appropriate for the required mood of this movie. “Le Festin” is the first track on the album and is a very nice introductory song. This score breaks away from many of the usual scoring conventions found in animated movies and creates a score that has a great degree of originality, while still maintaining the right amount of French music clichés.
Of course, the results were simply terrific. Michael Giacchino, who had composed the score for The Incredibles, was hired to do just that. For a project like this one the music required all of those energetic phrases found in other Disney movies, plus some French elements and originality. The movie is extremely enjoyable, funny, and sentimental all at the same time. After all, this movie is one of the best to come out from Pixar. It really came as no surprise when Ratatouille won the Oscar for best animated film of the year in 2008.
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