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Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
After the events of the first movie, by law because of rats in the kitchen, Gusteau's restaurant was closed down and top food critic, Anton Ego, lost his job for knowing about the rats and not saying anything. But thankfully, for the other things that he did, Skinner was thrown in jail and was never seen again. Ego may have lost his job, but he's now happier than ever, now that he has a new job and is a regular customer at a bistro called "La Ratatouille." Remy the rat is finally living the life he always dreamt of having, as a gourmet chef. Also, Linguini and Collette are getting married. After his dad died of old age, Remy is now the new leader of the colony, and he has found a love interest. A rat named Gigi with a pink tint on her fur. But Gigi is really uncomfortable with the idea of rats being cooks. Also, a rival of Ego, who was France's second top food critic until Ego got fired, is threatening to close down the bistro. He's one of those respectable figures who kind of gives restaurants a hard time... For FUN! He likes to be unfair. Will La Ratatouille survive? Will Linguini and Collette's wedding not end in disaster? Will Remy and Gigi end up together? If there's one thing everyone should remember, it's something that the late Chef Auguste Gusteau used to say: "Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great."
