A truly out-there piece of comic animation, the most outlandishly visual film of the year, this 80-minute French treat takes us into a world that can barely be described, a world unlike any we've seen before.
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11/25/03
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.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Comedies
US 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]
Reviews for The Triplets of Belleville
Top CriticWhile, like most animated films, The Triplets of Belleville was made by many people, this divinely eccentric movie feels as if it came straight to the screen from one man's wild and wantonly free imagination.
11/25/03
It's nasty but droll, cheerfully grotesque, full of non sequiturs as well as deadpan repetitions, never cute and the opposite of precious.
11/25/03
For someone with an adventurous cinematic appetite, a production that makes Miyazaki appear mainstream is surely worth a look.
11/25/03
A sophisticated, wholly original brand of animated storytelling that manages to be at once deliriously eccentric and deliciously sinister.
11/25/03
It's downright daft at times. But it's ingeniously crafted, marvelously drawn, and utterly unpredictable.
11/20/03
Perhaps the worst animated feature film I've ever seen.
11/19/03
Comic, touching and a visual knockout.
11/04/03
A bizarre yet beautifully composed piece of nutty whimsy.
11/02/03
A highly original, charming, visually striking and constantly droll entertainment.
11/01/03
Visual ingenuity, wry humour, and French self-parody add up to a strange and touching experience.
10/28/03
Grotesque yet trippy.
10/01/03
shows influences as diverse as "Mr. Magoo," the films of Caro and Jeunet ("Delicatessen," "City of Lost Children"), "The Family Dog," the animated "101 Dalmatians and Warner Brothers' early Merrie Melodies cartoons yet remains a completely unique creatio
08/25/03
Belleville Rendez-Vous is an engaging, original Europudding cartoon, animated in the classical style, without the sugar of Disney, entertaining from start to finish.
08/19/03
Quite unlike anything you will have ever seen in an animated picture.
08/14/03
Top CriticForges an all new narrative and visual style that's so winning it lingers in the mind long after the credits roll.
08/14/03
It may clock in at a crisp 80 minutes, yet a single viewing can barely do justice to this richly detailed and often playfully macabre adventure.
08/14/03
An odd and oddly satisfying concoction.
07/16/03
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