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Movie · Comedy, Animated · 2007 · G

Ratatouille: parents' guide

6+our pick

Best for ages 6 and up. Rated G.

A charming Pixar comedy for nearly the whole family, about a rat with a gift for cooking who teams up with a clumsy kitchen worker in a Paris restaurant. Peril is the main concern for young kids: an old woman blasts a shotgun at the rats, the colony is swept through the sewers, cooks hurl knives and pans at Remy, and a scheming chef traps him. Remy's father also shows him a shop window full of dead rats in traps. Otherwise content is light: a couple of kisses, wine at meals, a scene where the hero is plied with wine until he's drunk, and one "hell." Fine for most kids 6 and up.

What's in it

Violence

Mild

Slapstick peril: a shotgun fired repeatedly at the rats, a lightning strike, kitchen knives and pans hurled at Remy, a slap, and a cook pinning a sleeve to a table with knives. No one is seriously hurt.

Language

Mild

Very mild: a single "hell" and a "bloody," plus "shut up," "stupid," "idiot" and "loser."

Sex and nudity

Mild

A long kiss and some flirting between two young cooks, a painting of a nude woman seen from behind, and a subplot about a child born out of wedlock. A few passing grown-up jokes will go over kids' heads.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Moderate

Wine is served with meals and at a staff celebration. A scheming head chef keeps refilling the young hero's glass to loosen his tongue, and he ends up drunk, played for comedy.

Scary or intense scenes

Moderate

The early farmhouse and sewer chase is tense, Remy is lost and alone, caught in a trap and locked in a car trunk, and a display of dead rats in an exterminator's window may disturb small children.

Sensitive topics

  • Animal death

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, childrenandmedia.org.au, movieguide.org, moviemom.com, bbfc.co.uk, looper.com. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.