DrChristers I certainly enjoyed this film and it made me smile. IMDb classes this as comedy and drama but I wouldn't say there is much drama in it. You know who will fall in love and the plot follows exactly the journey you expect. It's not on the level of something like Four Weddings where you laugh, you cry, you smile, you cover your mouth with your hand in shock but it's still worth a watch if you want a little heart warming and not much of a challenge.Manish Dayal (Hassan) and Charlotte Le Bon (Marguerite) are the eye candy but the real stars here are, of course, Helen Mirren (Madame Mallory) and Om Puri (Papa). Their initial warring did make me smile, though it isn't laugh out loud, and their eventual romance is genuine and subtle.Everyone has a heart of gold and those who don't are (as with all good comedy romances) served their just desserts following their indiscretions.Helen Mirren yet again proves how much she deserves that Oscar. You really can't go wrong when you see her name in the cast.

madeleine-zuber-1993 If you are having a bad day, and you want to pick a movie that will lift your spirits? Watch this amazing family-comedy. It will bring some light into the darkness, I promise.What I liked about the movie? I like that it suited each age-category. I moreover liked that it was about cooking, but yet had a depth in it. It was not just some movie without any significant story. It was the story of a family, which had one gifted son. It was the story about what really is important in life (i.e. family). I would recommend this movie to all persons wanting to watch something that makes one happy and not sad.Cheers!

forster-80382 I find those who pan movies such as this extremely self centered and lack the ability to just sit down and enjoy a story for it's merits All of you who judge presentations in a negative context obviously do not even have a glimmer of the ability to create the story telling presented' sour grapes are always easier to spew than those of quality. Shame on you for trying to denigrate the weaving of a charming story I think you most likely do not like kittens and puppy's enjoy life it is short and you are wasting your prime years being a self centered toilet tissue as dad always used to say there are more horses as* holes than horses

cwaters80 (Spoilers) This is a sumptuous banquet of beautiful locations, good acting, a lovely soundtrack by the legendary A.R. Rahman, and it plays out more-or-less the way you would expect and want it to. The actors know exactly what they are doing, particularly Helen Mirren and Om Puri, who both start out bombastic and brutal but let their guards down convincingly.However, as some people have noted, the most surprising thing in 'Hundred-Foot Journey' is its very great resemblance to the 2007 animation 'Ratatouille', with many themes, scenes and even one or two lines bearing an uncanny resemblance. For example, Hassan is basically a composite of Ratatouille's two main characters, awkwardly falling in love with the rival female sous-chef while also becoming a rising star of the kitchen with his unorthodox cooking style, delivering a dish for a critic which is vital to preserving their good rating. On a personal level, the scene where Hassan tastes the sea urchin in the market in India is very similar to Remy's tasting of the various cheeses, both finding a moment of clarity and epiphany, suddenly knowing for sure that their destiny lies with food.Other themes too, such as outsiders feeling they should never mix in each other's worlds, then discovering and accepting the advantages of integration, are present in both films. (It is perhaps possible that the writer of Ratatouille wanted to explore immigration, integration and racism metaphorically, whereas Hundred-foot was more willing to deal with it directly.)While many children's films are adapted from serious grown-up works, it is downright bizarre to see this happening in the other direction. It isn't a bad thing though, Ratatouille is good and worthy of influencing others.(And before anyone mentions it, the novel that 'Hundred-Foot' was based on was published in 2010, three years after Ratatouille's release in 2007, so Ratatouille definitely came first.)On the downside, though they're not carbon copies, it is very hard to shake the feeling that this is a live-action remake, and consequently anyone who has watched Ratatouille is going to find very few surprises or twists in Hundred-foot.