Great film, but rats are still disgusting creatures

Actually, it is more than just one person's opinion.

Sorry, but I'd hazard a guess over 90% of the population agree with the original poster's opinion of these vile, disgusting creatures. Please spare us your tiny group of rat lovers' opinion of how smart and clean they are. All I needed to cement my feelings about rats was to see them in the New York Subway system, where they get to be quite large and agressive.

Oh, and spare us the gibberish about how "misunderstood" they are. They are vectors, that is pests that destroy crops and spread disease. And please, don't give us the "plague was spread by fleas that the rats carried" and not the rats themselves bullcrap - they are hosts to the extent they were carriers and thus present at the origination of one of mankind's most horrible losses of human life.

When I first saw this movie, I was struck by the scene in which the masses of rats swarm the old lady's home and even cause the ceiling to collapse. Yet, we're supposed to be more sympathetic to the hordes of rats over this poor old lady, bothering no one, who is trying to get on with her life?

YOU are the one who needs to get over yourself.

I'm with braineatingkitty. I happen to think mice and rats are great animals despite the majority's irrational fear of/disgust with them. I handled a mouse (from a store) and became very attached to it, as it did to me. It was very cute, affectionate, perceptive, intelligent, and expressive. And yes, it's true, just like cats (which all the aforementioned adjectives could also describe btw, and those are my other favorite animals/pets, and in reality they have many other similarities with them, believe it or not (despite being unrelated)) they keep themselves very clean by licking their fur clean (even using their hands to clean their faces). Just because a phobia is widespread, doesn't actually make it rational. I don't see mice or rats as disgusting at all. Snakes, worms, and spiders -- now THOSE I cannot stand at all! Even so, I recognize that my fear of those 3 animals is likely irrational, but I can't help but be afraid of those. Oh, I'm also afraid of dogs btw. Back to the main point though I'll never understand what's so scary to people about a mouse or rat.

I'm not trying to sugarcoat them at all -- those are my honest opinions of mice and rats. To most people theyre "vile," to a few people they're cute and those few people actually appreciate them for their qualities -- I'm one of those few people, and I'm not ashamed to admit that, either.