Buena Vista Home Entertainment has announced the tasty ingredients going into the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille. The latest film from acclaimed writer/director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) will come spiced up with a new original animated short film and a host of other extra features on Nov. 6.
In Ratatouille, a rat named Remy teams up with bumbling kitchen worker to realize his dream of becoming a gourmet chef in a five-star French restaurant. Remy and his brother, Emile, also star in Your Friend the Rat a new short that will be available exclusively on the home video release. The disc will also offer the Pixar short film Lifted, deleted scenes with introductions by Bird, and the featurette Fine Food and Film: A Conversation with Brad Bird and Thomas Keller, which details the master chef’s contributions to the movie.
The hi-def Blu-ray Disc version will also include Gusteau’s Gourmet Game, a new Java-based game that will have players helping Linguini by moving quickly from station to station to prepare the perfect meal. In addition, the release will offer Cine-Explore, an innovative, in-movie Java feature that allows viewers to customize their own behind-the-scenes experience with animation briefings, documentary shorts, deleted shots and deleted scenes. The Blu-ray disc will carry a suggested retail price of $34.99, and the standard-definition DVD will list for $29.99.
