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Triplets of Belleville, The
Sony Pictures Classics
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for images involving sensuality, violence and crude humor
Starring
Michèle Caucheteux,
Jean-Claude Donda,
Michel Robin,
and
Monica Viegas
The story of a boy, his grandmother, his dog and his dream of winning the Tour de France. When the boy is kidnapped by two mysterious men during the race, the search leads to the megalopolis of Belleville and the renowned Triplets of Belleville, eccentric female music-hall stars from the '30s.
| GENRE(S): |
Animation
|
Comedy
|
Foreign
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Sylvain Chomet
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Sylvain Chomet
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 4, 2004
Video: May 4, 2004
Theatrical: November 26, 2003
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
82 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / Belgium / Canada |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Les Triplettes de Belleville"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Time
Richard Corliss
Triplettes is terrific
there's no competition for the fall's most imaginative delight. In that race, Triplettes can already take its victory lap.

100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Children may enjoy it, aside from the youngest, who might find it too weird for comfort. Its main audience is adults, though. And not just any adults, but those in the mood for venturesome fare that's both surreal and hilarious.

100
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
The most joyously cinematic movie I've seen this year. Chomet's astonishing imagination conjures images you could swear you've seen in your dreams.

100
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The year's most ingenious and original animated feature.

100
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Fast, funny, unexpected and uninhibited, The Triplets of Belleville may be animated, but it is also the product of an artistic vision every bit as rigorous as any lofty Cannes prize-winner. Hearing about a film this special isn't enough. It demands to be seen, and it generously rewards those who, like Madame Souza, let nothing stand in their way.

100
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
An insanely delicious animated feature.

100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Chomet's wacky tale is so crammed full of eye-popping images, it's impossible to forget afterward.

100
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
This divinely eccentric movie feels as if it came straight to the screen from one mans wild and wantonly free imagination.

100
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Both a nostalgic throwback to the silent-picture era and an ultra-modern animated tale, the slyly humorous Triplets of Belleville is artful, engrossing and oddly touching.

100
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
All you really need to enjoy "Triplets" is a taste for the weird and the wonderful.

100
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It is a pure, streamlined delight, the advent of a talent with no exact equal in modern film.

100
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The movie itself is a nominee for Best Animated Feature, and it's good enough to pull a surprise upset over the beloved Finding Nemo. It's a mad masterpiece.

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
With a bit of Tintin and Tati, Charlie Chaplin and Wallace and Gromit echoing in the pacing and comic sensibility, Triplets of Belleville conjures up a world that's totally surprising and sublime.

100
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
Breathtakingly inventive story.

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
A madcap milestone. Not since Disney's 75-minute Alice In Wonderland (1951) has an animator filled the screen with dazzling flights of random invention that manage to hook up into a swift, brief narrative.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
If ''Finding Nemo'' is an awesome Pixar superpower, The Triplets of Belleville is a charming, idiosyncratic, self-governing duchy with huge tourism potential on the other side of the animated-movie planet.

90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
May be the oddest movie of the year, by turns sweet and sinister, insouciant and grotesque, invitingly funny and forbiddingly dark. It may also be one of the best, a tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief and unlikely sublimity.

90
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Chomet's vision is singularly strange and somber, and one of enormous originality and promise.

90
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
An animated extravaganza of Gallic wit and soul that delivers more wild humanity than many of the year's live-action features. In a word: go.

90
Chicago Reader
Ronnie Scheib
Sly, inventively drawn, brilliantly executed cartoon.

90
Newsweek
David Ansen
A tad dark for little kids, this one-of-a-kind movie delivers 80 minutes of idiosyncratic inspiration.

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
The film is best treated as a one-of-a-kind wonder: an ingenious contraption that dazzles, teases, attracts, and repels with all the mystery and sublimity of a miniature world.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
To call it weird would be a cowardly evasion. It is creepy, eccentric, eerie, flaky, freaky, funky, grotesque, inscrutable, kinky, kooky, magical, oddball, spooky, uncanny, uncouth and unearthly. Especially uncouth.

88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Bizarre, indeed.

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's comic, touching and a visual knockout.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Most 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.

80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Overflowing with madcap visual flair and following a rambling thread of a plot that seems, at times, more the product of free association than an actual script, The Triplets of Belleville is a triumph of animated style over substance.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A single seeing isn't enough to take in the eccentric marvels of The Triplets of Belleville, an animated feature by Sylvain Chomet that creates a visual language all its own.
80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Chomet bows to the tradition of conventional animation even as he tests its limits.

80
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Almost completely dialogue-free but graced with terrific sound design and a swell score.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The story is bizarre, unique, and thoroughly unpredictable, while its images resemble some kind of bastard offspring of the linear realism of George Grosz and the fantastic foreboding of Edward Gorey.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius
Impossible to describe, impossible to forget, The Triplets of Belleville sends audiences tottering out of the theater, dazed and delighted, and wondering what it is they have just experienced.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A highly satirical work, albeit without the "in your face" style of "South Park."

70
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Such is the hazard of the cartoon: as a form, it thrives on elongation and excess, yet, within its vortices and crannies, who knows what moldy prejudice can breed? [1 December 2003, p. 118]
60
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
The manic energy of the lively and outrageous opening sequence sets a tone and pace the film can't maintain.


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