The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 139
Fresh: 131 | 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: 38
Fresh: 38 | 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
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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.
Top CriticVous 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.
Relish the film's deadpan grotesquery, its flair for invention, be it the fanciful narrative segues or various object lessons...
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.
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.
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.
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Foreign Titles
- Les Triplettes de Belleville - Das große Rennen von Belleville (DE)
- Belleville Rendez-Vous (UK)
