The box was in the original, unopened/brand new condition. I was very happy with my purchase and with the speedy service I received. The little one this was purchased for, loves to watch it!

The seller that I purchased this item from needs to be forbidden from selling on Amazon. I never recieved my order and have sent email's to the seller and have gotten no reply to any of them. I think this person is a theif and makes your company look very bad. I give them a rating of ZERO Stars because I think that is what they are worth.

I ordered this DVD the week of Thanksgiving so I could give it plenty of time to get here for Christmas. By the week before Christmas, it still had not arrived. I wrote an email to the company who sent it and never received a reply. It never came. And I have never received a refund. My advice to you: do NOT order anything from seemybooks!!! This is a wonderful movie and it would have made a wonderful gift. I actually ended up spending much more money than intended because I had to replace the gift. So just be safe, and order it from another supplier!

I loved the movie only because I love critters. My daughter loved the movie because a rat can cook and talk. The move is cute and fine detailed. Although warning after watching it ten times can make you sick of it. So watch it here and there. BUY this movie for any one that loves critters and kids that love to watch animals cook. Do not buy for someone that easily gets grossed out or is majorly afraid of germs and critters.

I wondered why Pixar picked this as a title for their new movie, considering that it's a French dish and you need to educate people how to pronounce it on the movie poster itself; but by the time you've seen the movie to the end it becomes apparent why it could not be called anything else. Pixar seems to have been making kids movies that adults can enjoy, but this seems to me to be the first time they've made an adult movie that kids can enjoy.

I was a bit sceptical about this film at first, since the trailers didn't make it look very interesting - sort of ho-hum like Flushed Away or something - but the reviews were all so glowing (the Rotten Tomatoes critics poll gave it a 96 percent approval) that I had to see it. And it really lived up to those reviews. The film is about a rat that wants to cook, and while the UB40 song "Rat in the Kitchen" is never used, the idea of rats being icky creatures to be banished from the kitchen is a sqeamish thought that's... never really addressed here. It kind of makes me think of an essay I read in Esquire in the mid-80s about the 50 most influential people of the 20th century (so far). One of them was Walt Disney, and the hypothesis of the essay is that Disney could take a story like Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis and turn it into a song and dance with a cute cockroach and melt everyone's hearts (which they tried to do with "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"). Well, Disney put clothes on a rat and called him Mickey, but Pixar pushed the envelope a bit by putting a real, raw rat in the kitchen and asked us to be happy that he's handling the foodstuffs without a proper de-lousing. And we fell for it. Does this mean that Pixar is clever, or does this mean that we're idiots? Well, Disney was never as bold, and now Pixar has taken the step that that Esquire article warned us about. Hilarious.

As good as Pixar is, it has gotten a bit derivative recently - the Incredibles, as good as the film was, ripped off both the Watchmen (plot) and the Fantastic Four (powers, villain). Cars was a rehash of "Doc Hollywood," but with automobiles. But Ratatouille is something different. There are bizarre non-sequitars: where are the female rats in all this, why not show more of Remy's childhood to understand how he became so interested in cooking rather than introduce him as if he were a character in "Trainspotting"; and Linguini's abrupt romance is a bit difficult to understand.

But never mind, the story of the little restaurant that could... then couldn't... then could again is quite a lot of fun. Sure there's that icky part where the friends' conflicting emotions cause them to momentarily betray each other (every movie needs its movie cliche), but the way the ending is wrapped up is quite impressive. I don't remember the last time an animated movie about rats that cook brought a tear to my eye either.