This is a film that speaks a universal language of funny images and unexpected surprises.
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
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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
So bizarre, satirical and imaginative that it almost defies description.
01/05/04
doesn’t have much to offer outside of its technical achievements, which is both amazing and a shame, considering Chomet’s fertile imagination.
01/04/04
All you really need to enjoy "Triplets" is a taste for the weird and the wonderful.
01/02/04
Built on slow, repetitive actions that quietly amuse us but don't necessarily raise our adrenaline. Still, for visual grandeur and artistic imagination, it's a sheer joy.
12/30/03
...delightful, inventive, accessible, hilarious, and tremendously executed.
12/29/03
A determinedly weird, almost wordless Gallic concoction that casts a considerable spell even if it's not supposed to make much sense (and definitely succeeds in that respect).
12/29/03
A strange and wonderful tale that relies on and indulges in the luxuries of hand-drawn animation
12/28/03
There is more imagination in this film's puny 80 minutes than in all the other films I've seen this year put together.
12/27/03
Shares the inventive, experimental storytelling found in the works of Miyazaki and the Wachowskis. What a joy to watch a cartoon with your brain turned on.
12/26/03
Impossible to describe, impossible to forget.
12/26/03
This oddball has the fuzz of real invention.
12/26/03
An animated feature of appalling originality and scary charm.
12/26/03
Top CriticMost of the magic of this unusual movie comes from the freshness, imagination and sweet spirit of its animation, which is blissfully its own thing and does not show the influence of any of the reigning forces in the art form.
12/26/03
A strange delight, an original vision that enhances the state of contemporary animation.
12/25/03
Dazzling in the simplest of ways putting Sylvain Chomet at the animation’s adult table that still has plenty of room for the kids.
12/24/03
Like a silent film that just happens to be drawn instead of made with real people - it's absolutely mesmerizing to look at this animation.
12/24/03
Filmmaking at its best, and a wonderful reminder of the pure unadulterated joy that can come from going to the movies.
12/21/03
Oooh la la and a certain je ne sais quoi permeate every frame of this imaginative French gem that leaves ordinary animated projects in the dust.
12/21/03
Feels like a cross between '60's Disney cartoon movies and Yellow Submarine. No, even that description is too simplistic.
12/19/03
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