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Ratatouille (2007)

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• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Gusteau's restaurant was said to have attained a five-star rating previously, yet the French guides don't go any higher then three stars. This detail was most likely deliberately ignored by the producers because many international audiences are used to hotel ratings that go up to five stars, and would not have understood that a three-star rating is the ultimate culinary honor in France.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Remy is correcting the soup Linguini had concocted, a 360-degree shot is used to show Remy tossing ingredients into the soup pot. Next to the stove there should be a mop that Remy had used to climb up to escape out the window previously, but is absent during the rotating shot. Instead there is a shadow of the absent mop handle that can be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Remy is fixing the soup that Linguini ruined, he puts a big wooden spoon in the pot to stir and then to smell. He then places the spoon back in the soup before adding the last ingredient and getting caught. When he jumps from the pot, the wooden spoon is no longer in the pot, and doesn't reappear in any subsequent shots.
  
  

• Continuity: During the press conference, an irritated Remy, hiding in Linguini's toque, yanks on Linguini's hair with his left paw, causing Linguini to hit himself in the left side of the head with one of the two copper pans he's holding up for photographers. However, Linguini has his arms crossed in front of his face at that moment, and thus hits himself with the pan being held in his right arm, not his left. From what we know of how Remy controls Linguini's arms by hair tugging, Remy would have to have used his right paw for that movement, not his left.
  
  
• Continuity: When Colette is racing away from the restaurant on her motorcycle, she skids to a stop between car lanes at a red light. When the light turns green, she is in the middle of the lane with cars honking behind her.
  
  
• Continuity: When Skinner explains corn dogs to the marketing executive, the cardboard cutouts are facing them; when Skinner goes to sit at his desk, the cutouts are now facing the desk.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of the Gusteau cardboard cutouts change position during the scene with Skinner and the Lawyer, and when Remy is going to get the keys.
  
  

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