Do Not Eat. Our food Is Too Precious For That. 

The Menu serves up a deliciously dark and wicked six course meal of comedy, horror and satire. Ralph Fiennes plays an enigmatic head chef named Slowik accompanied by the beautiful Anya Taylor Joy. 

The point that the head chef is trying to make here is that one should not just eat. They should appreciate the food, to savour the taste and to understand the work put into the preparations. It is an allegory on the insane adulation actors and directors have to face every day, the taunts from critics and the cult like worship from fanboys, regulars who don’t actually care, people who will never be satisfied and the vicious pressure of moving the audience at all cost. The film is raging against the very system wherein art is created. It is a pretty sharp commentary on the way the entertainment industry is working today. 

The Menu is a sinister, witty and over the top takedown of snobby food culture which has you chewing on your nails in tension because you never know where the movie is leading. You would think a film about making people eat mysterious foods would involve cannibalism but alas, no human eaters here! 

The characters are complex, each have their own personal reasons to have been invited by Chef Slowik to his high end restaurant. His act of serving gourmet foods to a group of people might seem innocent and harmless, but his devilish intentions have other plans. He has motives to extract revenge from all of them.

Themes of violence and satire are most prominent because the chef’s only intention for that dinner was to kill everyone in the room and set himself free from being tormented everyday from the obligation of preparing food, only for it to be critiqued and seen as a standard for the upper class. 

The cinematography of the film is brilliant. They perfectly curate a bone chilling atmosphere throughout the film while simultaneously making you giggle. The film does not take itself too seriously which adds to its charm and quirkiness. 

Lastly, our message to Ralph Fiennes is that all we wanted was me n u!