Although it has concluded that the forthcoming Disney-Pixar animated film Ratatouille "won't be a blockbuster," Business Week is suggesting that it is nevertheless likely to wind up justifying Disney chief Robert Iger's decision to acquire Pixar for $7.5 billion last year. "It's not the rollicking, show tune-laden, laugh-fest that Pixar usually makes," the magazine said. "It is, however, a tremendously well-made, stylish film that will take your breath away in terms of technology -- rat hairs look real and human movements are so authentic you won't believe they were generated by a computer." Nevertheless, the magazine points out, "Disney couldn't be trotting out its first wholly owned Pixar flick at a worse time," since the following week it will have to compete against the Steven Spielberg-produced Transformers and the week after that against the latest Harry Potter spectacle.
13/06/2007
