Reception
Vídeo Brinquedo's films have been extremely negatively reviewed. Erik Henriksen, a reporter from The Portland Mercury, criticized Vídeo Brinquedo of being "the laziest/cheapest movie studio of all time" due to similarities between Ratatoing and Ratatouille, The Little Cars and Cars, and Gladiformers and Transformers.
One reviewer on Toon Zone, in his review of Ratatoing, said: "if you ate a copy of the worst cartoon you could think of, you'd still probably crap something better than Ratatoing", and went on to bemoan the incredibly poor animation, calling the movie as a whole "a senseless waste of raw materials" and "a waste of time, energy and effort for all parties concerned".
Marco Aurélio Canônico of Folha de S. Paulo, who described the Little Cars series as a copy of the Pixar film Cars, and likewise Ratatoing of Ratatouille, discussed whether lawsuits from Pixar would appear. The Brazilian Ministry of Culture posted Marco Aurélio Canônico's article on its website. Virgin Media had also thought of the same thing, stating "Even by the ocean-floor-scraping standards of Video Brinquedo, it's a shameless knock-off." Milani defended himself from charges of plagiarism, stating "The story is that we create. Themes are just the same," Disney's legal department was contacted by a reporter through a spokesperson about this, but Milani did not rule until the closing of this text.
A 2008 study in Beijing found that the Chinese DVD copy of Ratatoing had a high amount of piracy.
Two of Video Brinquedo's productions were parodied in an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball, named The Treasure, in which Gumball picks up a mockbuster DVD called "How to Ratatwang Your Panda".
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