Your Friend the Rat (2007) (V)

Director:

Jim Capobianco

Writers:

Jim Capobianco (written by)
Jeff Pidgeon (story) ...
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Release Date:

6 November 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Family

Plot:

Remy and Emile plead the case for rats by illustrating the historical and scientific facts about the species and their interaction with humans. |

Plot Keywords:

Rat | Historical | Chalkboard | Animal | Black Death

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Patton Oswalt	...	Remy (voice)
Peter Sohn	...	Emile (voice)
Lou Romano	...	Linguini (voice)
Tony Russel	...	Disclaimer Guy (voice)
Sigmund Vik	...	Norwegian Rat (voice)
Jim Capobianco	...	Director Voice (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Ratzenberger	...	P.T. Flea (uncredited)

Directed by
Jim Capobianco

Writing credits
Jim Capobianco		(written by)
Jeff Pidgeon		(story) &
Alexander Woo		(story)

Produced by
Brad Bird	....	executive producer
Ann Brilz	....	producer
John Lasseter	....	executive producer
Brad Lewis	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Alex Mandel

Film Editing by
Steve Bloom

Production Design by
Nate Wragg

Production Management
Juliet Pokorny	....	production manager
Michael Warch	....	production manager

Art Department
Cathleen Carmean	....	art coordinator
Greg Dykstra	....	sculptor

Sound Department
E.J. Holowicki	....	sound designer

Visual Effects by
Jacob Brooks	....	simulation technical director
Eric Froemling	....	effects artist
Darwyn Peachey	....	effects artist
Alex Seiden	....	simulation technical director
Apurva Shah	....	supervising technical director
Paul Topolos	....	matte painter
Esdras Varagnolo	....	lighting artist
Kim White	....	lighting supervisor

Animation Department
Randy Berrett	....	ink and paint artist
Jason Boose	....	animator
DeAnn Cobb	....	ink and paint artist
Don Crum	....	animator
Everett Downing Jr.	....	animator
Craig Foster	....	additional character designer
Craig Foster	....	background artist
Doug Frankel	....	2D animation supervisor
Jamie Frye	....	ink and paint artist
Tom Gately	....	animator
Willy Hwang	....	ink and paint artist
Ken Kim	....	animator
Bruce Kuei	....	animator
Valerie LaPointe	....	ink and paint artist
Holger Leihe	....	animator
Sam Marin	....	animator
Sam Marin	....	ink and paint artist
Daniel Mason	....	stop-motion animator
Sarah Mercey-Boose	....	animator
Scott Morse	....	background artist
Ernesto Nemesio	....	ink and paint artist
Teddy Newton	....	character designer
Matt Nolte	....	animator
Kevin O'Hara	....	animator
Sanjay Patel	....	additional character designer
Gennie Rim	....	animation coordinator
Amber Rudolph	....	animator (as Amber Martorelli)
Gini Cruz Santos	....	animator
Bob Scott	....	2D animation supervisor
Bob Scott	....	additional character designer
Mark Shirra	....	ink and paint artist
David Earl Smith	....	animator
Raphael Suter	....	animator
Kristoff Vergne	....	animator (as Kristophe Vergne)
Anthony Ho Wong	....	animator
Alexander Woo	....	animator
Alexander Woo	....	ink and paint artist
Kureha Yokoo	....	3D animation supervisor
Tom Zach	....	animator

Editorial Department
Rod G. Bogart	....	colorist (as Rod Bogart)
Krissy Cababa	....	editorial coordinator
Tim Fox	....	assistant editor
Joshua Hollander	....	colorist
David Lortsher	....	colorist
Brice Parker	....	editorial coordinator
Robin Young	....	colorist

Music Department
Vince Caro	....	music recording engineer

Other crew
Ruth Palmer	....	researcher

Thanks
Anthony A. Apodaca	....	special thanks
Paul Cichocki	....	special thanks
Kim Collins	....	special thanks
Marc S. Greenberg	....	special thanks
Nicole Paradis Grindle	....	special thanks
Brian Larsen	....	special thanks
Rob Rieders	....	special thanks
Bob Roden	....	special thanks
Cynthia Slavens	....	special thanks
Galyn Susman	....	special thanks
Jason Topolski	....	special thanks (as Jason 'JTOP' Topolski)

Production Companies

• Pixar Animation Studios
• Walt Disney Pictures

Distributors

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Skywalker Sound  music recorded at (as Skywalker Scoring Stage)
• Skywalker Sound  sound

Runtime:

11 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:All

Company:

Pixar Animation Studios

Trivia:

WILHELM SCREAM: A chalkboard drawing of an astronaut gets frightened by a rat.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Remy: Hello, I'm Remy and this is my brother Emile.
Emile: Hi.
Remy: We're here to speak out on behalf of repressed rats everywhere. Rats who don't have the access to media that our movie escorts us. Yes, we have to. We rats have to take a stand.
Emile: You said we'd sing something. You know, joke around. You did not say we were going to take a stand.
Remy: This is important. Humans need to know, humans need to...
Emile: Feed us. That's what you need to do. Leave some garbage out and we won't bother you. Just leave the lid on top of the can loose.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Features A Bug's Life (1998)

Soundtrack:

Plan B

Uh...

This is one of the two shorts on the 2-Disc Special Edition of Ratatouille. I think it is one of those that you love or hate. It wasn't my cup of tea, but if you're a big fan of the flick itself, you may like it. I get that this may have been fun to do when working for a long time on one project, to blow off some steam, the way special effects people will sometimes playfully do key-frame stuff that obviously will not wind up being used in the film. And I'm, of course, not blind to how many different styles of animation that this uses, and how unusual that is. It is pretty creative, well-edited, never stands still. If you are not up for all the information(which I can neither confirm or deny the truth of, I don't know enough to judge it), or the intentionally and jokingly preachy tone, well, you'd better be up for the comedy, or this will not be for you. The voice acting is fine. I did not personally find this particularly funny, except for maybe the ending, though I can definitely imagine that others will. There's nothing offensive in this. I recommend this solely to those who think this might interest them. 6/10