If Walt Disney had gone on a binge of red wine, hallucinatory drugs and absurdist plays, The Triplets of Belleville could have sprouted from his animation empire.
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Reviews Counted:132
Fresh:124
Rotten:8
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: Richly detailed and loaded with surreal touches, The Triplets of Belleville is an odd, delightful charmer.
Theatrical Release:Nov 26, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $6,798,854
Synopsis: In this animated French film, a boy named Champion trains relentlessly for the Tour de France, with the help of his loyal grandmother and overweight dog, Bruno (who loves to bark at passing... [More]
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Reviews for The Triplets of Belleville
The Triplets of Belleville proves there's still plenty of life in hand-drawn animation.
02/12/04
An ephemerally entertaining comic adventure.
02/12/04
Hang on to your head. Sylvain Chomet's magical, mysterious and mind expanding feature debut will send it spinning like a top into space if you're not careful.
02/10/04
Too far-fetched for me to dive into a genre I have not yet acquired a taste for.
02/08/04
As original as it is strange, The Triplets of Belleville not only will win you over with that potent combination, but will likely tempt you to seek out its company again and again.
02/06/04
Everything about the film, from the characters to the settings, is tres bizarre, yet it's all weirdly compelling.
02/06/04
If you have an open mind, and an appreciation of film animation, you will surely enjoy the film's clever gags, as well as the sensational blending of cel animation and computer-enhanced backgrounds and action.
02/06/04
The Triplets of Belleville can feel so alive you may have trouble sitting still while watching it.
02/06/04
Top CriticTriplets is as visually unfamiliar as a foreign language.
02/06/04
A comfortably subversive and accomplished film that speaks to everyone, without talking down to anyone.
02/05/04
It is funny in spurts, frightening, moving, magical, exhilarating, horrific, smart and silly. It is all this and more.
02/05/04
Triplets of Belleville conjures up a world that's totally surprising and sublime.
02/05/04
A triumph of style and substance, dispensing equal parts unbridled glee and powerful melancholy.
02/05/04
A hugely entertaining alternative to Disney and Pixar
02/04/04
It would appear that the best 'toon flicks are presently being produced outside the USA.
02/04/04
I'm not so sure what Chomet's getting at here, or even if there's really much to be gotten at all. But the movie's a bona fide eye-popper. (Man, I wish I still smoked pot.)
02/03/04
Se precisei assistir a esta animação 3 vezes somente para escrever sobre ela, nem imagino quantas vezes voltarei a vê-la apenas pelo prazer de visitar a criação de Chomet.
01/31/04
Feels simultaneously cutting-edge and a new classic of the cartoon genre.
01/30/04
Top Critic[Sylvain] Chomet's vision is singularly strange and somber, and one of enormous originality and promise.
01/30/04
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