Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 138
Fresh: 130 | Rotten: 8
Richly detailed and loaded with surreal touches, The Triplets of Belleville is an odd, delightful charmer.
Average Rating: 8.5/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 0
Richly detailed and loaded with surreal touches, The Triplets of Belleville is an odd, delightful charmer.
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French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet directs the animated feature The Triplets of Belleville. A young boy is raised by his grandmother, Madame Souza, in the French countryside. She buys him a bicycle and encourages his dream of winning the Tour de France. However, he gets kidnapped by a group of Mafia gangsters and taken to the big city of Belleville, where he is used for his bicycling prowess in an elaborate gambling scheme. Along with her faithful companion Bruno, Madame Souza sets out to rescue
PG-13, 1 hr. 21 min.
Nov 26, 2003 Wide
May 4, 2004
$6.8M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (138) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (138) | Rotten (9) | DVD (30)
Just when Jeffrey Katzenberg had loudly declared the death of 2-D animation, along came this sly, inventively drawn cartoon that blew the cumbrous studio leviathans out of the water.
Vous guessed it by now: Triplettes is terrific.
A winning blend of dark and bittersweet, aimed more at adults than kiddies, but suitable for all ages.
It's impossible to watch this movie without gasping at its graphics, and yet we're so drawn into Chomet's way of seeing that, after a while, his genius erases the distinction between animation and live action.
Zee French, zay are different, non? Well, in this case, wonderfully so.
Thanks to Chomet, 'beautifully strange' has a new home address, and it's in Belleville.
It occasionally suffers from longeurs, but it's moving and funny with moments of genius. More of the same, s'il vous plaît.
Astonishing, outlandish, and full of laughs.
This is an animated movie to fall in love with.
Beautiful animation, surreal imagery, funny quirky characters and engaging situations make this a gem that should be discovered.
Whimsy is alive and well in the movies, thanks to Sylvain Chomet.
Relish the film's deadpan grotesquery, its flair for invention, be it the fanciful narrative segues or various object lessons...
If there's any justice in the world, French animator Sylvain Chomet will be handed the Animated Feature Oscar in February for this fantastic little film.
There are high-powered opiates that don't pack the psychedelic kick of this cartoon.
La historia se cuenta en imágenes y sonidos, y ese es un primer gran mérito a tener en cuenta en una época en que los personajes del cine suelen hablar demasiado.
A bustling cornucopia of delights.
Something unique: mixing styles, eras and geography into a cocktail that is both funny and melancholy.
Sylvain Chomet's dignified (but un-Disney-fied) cartoon adventure is a scrumptiously madcap rush of visual eccentricity, playfully dark humor, and narrative reinvention.
Chomet made this movie to remind us how imaginative animation can be as an art form.
If you've a heart and a pulse, you will like this movie.
The big test was how few times I could look at my watch to determine how much more agony I had to endure.
A grandmother and a dog track a kidnapped bicyclist to New York City and free him with the help of a trio of elderly singers. Initially, it's difficult to enter the peculiar, nearly silent retro-world created by animator Sylvain Chomet---which is equal parts slapstick, surrealism, and French impressions of 1920s
May 22, 2012
Super Reviewer
As heartwarming as it is surreal and strange, The Triplets of Beleville is a very charming animated story with a good plot and terrific animation. It's very imaginative and one of the best examples of the finest traditionally drawn animated films of the 2000's. Which was the time when the type of animation was dying
November 10, 2011
Super Reviewer
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