The Triplets of Belleville is the film that made Sylvain Chomet famous. It is a quaint and old-fashion tale about a grandma and her dog looking for her grandson, a bicyclist that is kidnapped from The Tour of France by the local mafia. He is taken to Belleville, which is a sort of Sin City, a mix between New York and Las Vegas. There the old lady will meet the Triplets, that now a day are outdated and forgotten by show business. This movie with poor dialogues and expressionist graphics, reach high levels of concepts that want to transmit: the pauper environments have caught the characters and take away from them the possibility of dreaming; this characters have to survive by any way, because the show business has failed; the human beings are represented with characteristics of animals and things, because they live in a materialistic society and are what they truly demonstrate; gathering everything it can be said that there is no escape from the reality. The Triplets of Belleville is a strange, but hilarious film. The direction is unique, the art direction is beautiful and the music is overwhelming, the Belleville Rendez-Vous is one of the best movie themes of all times.… Expand

One of the best animated series i have ever seen.

Uber-pretentious garbage. the only good part of this movie was the catchy tune throughout. "it stinks!"

This was a great movie. Everything about it was unique and extremely interesting.

One of the strangest, most wonderful, silliest and (oddly enough) most moving films I've seen in years. Basically, it is the story of an extremely devoted grandmother trying her best to create a happy life for her bike riding grandson. The movie features one of the most realistic dogs ever portrayed on film, IMO. This includes many live action dogs. Anyhow, while this movie is not for everyone, I will go out on a limb and say that it is for nearly everyone. Just a last note - the ending does make sense. It ties back in with something else from earlier in the film. To say more would be to spoil it.… Expand

Bizarre, amazing, entertaining. The perfect cure for the person who has seen too many movies.

This movie was so artistic, from design to production. The detail put into each character is amazing. There was so much effort put into sound effects, and digital effects. It was realistic, yet had the charm of being animated.

Certainly a visual marvel and also scores with a big heart.

Absolutely amazing movie. Not one line of dialogue the entire movie (with one exception), yet it made me laugh and cry and shake my head with wonder. It is a somber movie, couched in dilapitated, deserted, and drab environments, which can explain the few people here who have given it low ratings. I imagine they were looking for more spectacle, and less emotion.

I loved this movie. The animation was absolutely incredible. The film was sooooo French!

It's fun and definitely has a distinctive look. But to be honest, this is a 80 minute film with about the same content as one of the better episodes of "Family Guy" or "The Simpsons". And fewer laughs. I liked it and its extreme weirdness is worth something all by itself. But I don't see it as a real classic.

Bizarre animation that provides little effect.

The movie was weird and charming at the same time. I loved this cartoon. This is something I can appreciate.

The animation was very good, but the story is pretentious and boring. There is no dialogue, and the ending didn't make sense. This movie is not nearly as good as the critics would have you believe.

Wonderfully strange, one of the most beautiful animated cartoons in years.

Uh, it's strange, for sure. Just don't take the little kids. Especially if they like frogs.

Mesmerizing movie that sets you into the director's animated world , I almost wish i could live there.

Great! At last, non-Disney animation! I have shown it to my students aged 13-16, and they remember it for years, and can describe its quirks, and distinctive visual style - fabulous! Who could forget the frogs, the musical 'instruments', the ship, the shape of the 'baddies', and those calf muscles! fantastic!

Delightfully weird and beautiful. The music is wonderful.

THE BEST ANIMATED FILM EVER! (since Yellow Submarine) Great music really hilarious and super creative. Who cares about the Josephine Baker scene. This should have been rated PG. This film should have won best animated film in 2003! It's a lot better thandn the terrible and horible film "Finding Nemo". Great job MR. Chomet!!

Long and boring. There is no comedy other than a few humurous slapstick events. Don't waste the money on this one.

Terrible. I left the theater with the same distaste I felt after seeing Punch Drunk Love. On the plus side, the animation was refreshingly different from the plastic-perfect world typically portrayed in American cartoons. It was not over soon enough.

I loved it. I don't know why, but I loved it. It is not for everyone and hardly for the majority. Don't go into this wanting Shrek or Finding Nemo, both very good movie don't get me wrong. I don't know why but I loved the people and the music. I was oddly and completly drawn to this grotesque piece of beauty.

A truly wonderful story, and amazing animation and music!

Remarkably original, visually stunning.

I love this movie and I approve of all the joyful content within it.

This is for those who love a quirky movie, but it is so much more. I was enthralled with the emotions and the imaginative visual interpretations. There was plenty of humor amid the drama - Bruno the dog was priceless.

Fantastic!

The first movie in a long time to make me laugh without dialogue. Great animation, amusing characters and wonderful music. The cross ocean voyage was spectacular, with a perfect choice of music to complement the scene. This movie is not for the attention deficit generation!

Yay! I still need the English Lyrics to the Belleville Rendezvous song, but hey... It was a great movie! ^_^

A visual feast. I was drawn in by this movie's charm and warmth. Just as impressive as the visual style of this film, though, is its sound editing. The spare economy of sounds that are heard throughout "Triplets" combined with great artwork by director Sylvain Chomet says more than a volume of dialogue could have ever done. Terrific film.

Superbly inventive animation and sound, but relentlessly grim, lacking even a single character for the audience to connect with. Bruno the dog felt uncannily real, but only through his bad habits. All the charicatures (that's not a typo) have stomach-churning habits and zombie-like expressions. If that sounds like your idea of fun, have at it.

SUCH a beautiful film, so original! It's got a catchy tune and weird and wonderful animations! Sad and nice ^^ an amazing film, not to be frowned upon!

The use of charicature in this film is amazing! The impossibly shaped people and vehicles, the subtle digs into America and our culture of obesity. It's also rare to see a story that can tell itself visually, and I feel this one accomplished it. Watch it, it has a happy ending.

Triplets was oddly cold. There was no communication of warmth between mother and son. The son barely acknowledged her existence. Missing that emotional connection, I just couldn't love the film despite its great artistry, production and music.

It's really unlike anything I have ever seen - dark, inventive, stunningly over-stylized imagery, a haunting tune. The chase scene is masterful. In the end it lacked the emotional connection we've come to expect from a cinematic catharsis, but it's the only film I've been drawn to see again a couple of days later. Haunting, with many whimsical moments - worth seeing.

Totally unique and perfectly realized within it's own vision. How often can you say that? A total pleasure.

Along with Miyazaki's "Spirited Away", this is the greatest animated movie I've ever seen. The rhythms and silent compositions reminded me of Jacques Tati. The music is beautiful and moving and I love the slow rhythm and silent scenes the best. I cannot rave about this movie much more (as you can see from my fragmented review). I get so emotional about it it's hard for me to talk about it. Just rent it ASAP.… Expand

The best animation i've ever seen along with spirited away. I just wonder how they make such great animations! It's dialogue free yet manages to comunicate emotions (and the plot) brilliantly. Sad story but very funny and emotional with a happy ending. It's certainly a must see. I watched it will several other people and we were in fits of laughter. It's very abstract (in animation and plot). After reading some of the other comments I found that some people really hate it, i've learned that it's a love of hate animation. So original.… Expand

Loved it! such an interesting flick.

This is the weirdest, quirkiest, and most pointless film of the year. It's imaginative and would make a great book, but as for a movie... I'll just be straight up, this movie was too weird for me to like. Others may like it though

Wildly imaginative. Represents film making at its best, a terrific illustration of the power of visuals over mere words. The filmmakers set out to push the boundaries of traditional animation (with some help from computers) and succeeded brilliantly.

Shame there isn't such thing as -1000. This is probably the most boring film i have ever see. ( i had to suffer this film in my French lesson) i nearly lost the world to live it is so lame and i thing the only use it has is to torture people. its like this film site gives all the bad films bad marks and the good films bad marks. whatever this website says i want you in most cases to think the opposite.… Expand

The most imaginative animated feature film I have ever seen. Even Disney couldn't have done it any better.

Very good french animated movie... Definitely "fench" so clever, charming and funny !!!

Best thing I've seen in a long long time. And I want to see it again. Its smart sweet and cynical.

Saw this today. What a wonderfully weird little animated movie. Told without dialogue, the story is truly bizarre and a pure screwball fantasy about kidnapped Tour de France cyclists and grandma and Bruno the dog's resuce attemps in the big fat American city of Belleville populated by big fat Americans. The Triplets are a musical sister act with a fixation for frogcicles and musical refrigerators. Being a French movie, no French cliche and and stereotype is left unturned. The plot simply defies description . . . in a good way. Utterly unlike anything this animation freak has ever seen (sort of a cross between jazz-age disney shorts and Jeunet's "City of lost Children" combined with the Pink Panther cartoons), the film is a tour de force of hand-drawn cell-animation style and technique. Too obscure to win an oscar for best animated film against the Disney/Pixar juggernaut of "Finding Nemo", but this surreal little flick is sure to please adults much more. This movie deserves an audience.… Expand

Fantastic! Even more fun if you happen to be a cyclist!

For being such a short movie (only 80 minutes long) it surely seemed to drag on. Though the animation was original and well done, the movie seemed taxing to watch. I left feeling horribly tired and emotionless. Could have easily been a 15 minute animated short instead of a feature film.

Like the first Walt Disney features--"Snow White," "Fantasia" and "Bambi"--"The Triplettes of Belleville" is terrifying, grotesque, manic, eclectic, exhausting, filled with color, movement, and feeling, and meant for adults. Chomet appears to have seen each single frame of animation ever made, and then demolished everything and started from scratch. The story, like "Nemo's," centers on a parent's search for a kidnapped child, but while "Nemo's" is told from the point of view of the parent, focusing on parental anxiety, "Belleville's" is told from the point of view of the rescued child, and focuses on gratitude and love. A righteous triumph, it's made even more magnificent by its flaws.… Expand

Oh my! What an absolute visual, satirical delight Wjhat is the name of the musical theme? I can't get it out of my head. Don't miss this one!

Apparently this is a love it or hate it movie. Well I loved it. I don't think that those who rated it a 2 were watching the same movie that I was watching. Chomet has the uncanny ability to pick up on and exaggerate the little things that people take for granted in life. If moronic movies like Torque, The Butterfly Effect, or Win a Date with Tad Hamilton is your idea of a splendiferous moviegoing experience, then I wouldn't go see the Triplets of Belleville. If, on the other hand, you like to engage your brain and if you like artsy theaters where intelligent people gather, The Triplets is a must see.… Expand

I really wanted to like this, but with the exception of the terrific opening sequence, a hot jazz song-and-dance number done in a faux-antique style, it's as slow as the Tour de France cyclists inching up the Pyrenees.

Wonderful, odd trip. Its is everything that american film is not - eccentric, subtle, obtuse, and paced for the literate. A knowledge of jazz, film, animation, french history all add to the pleasure. The playful digs on french culture are delightfully on point. And the music will stay in your head for days. Refreshing to see hand animation again.

That was absolutely the worst movie i have ever seen... seriously if u thinks this movie is that good then i think that u have been watchin good qualty movies like u should.

An excellent movie. Not much talking, but it doesn't need it because the animation is incredibly fun to watch. A lot of the movie makes fun of America and it is hilarious. If you want to watch a quality movie that is a little different from most, watch this!

This one is a real work of art. There's a lot of imagination in this movie.

Fantastic!

This was super cool. That's all I have to say.

Individuals who are sick and tired of just accepting the predictable and systematic shlop that big industry provides will want to see this film. ->Completely Unique.

A definite must see. I love this film those who don't appreciate are obviously not very open-minded.

Some really cool images and some cooly disgusting ones, but thin on plot and slow on pacing. Worth seeing, but not quite as good as they'd have you believe.

Fast-paced, bizarre, atypical animation. Not your typical kiddie cartoon. This is for people who can appreciate the absurd.

"The Triplets of Belleville" looks like the sort of cartoon that gets nominated in the Best Animated Short category at the Oscars. Apart from the politically incorrect depiction of an African-American cabaret singer being harassed by a pack of monkeys at the onset, this beguilling offering from France is a true adult offering because it never condescends to kids. Like "The Incredibles", however, "The Triplets of Belleville" is flawed somewhat by an over-reliance on action in the third act, but the chase, a stock story element, is more than subverted by a lack of speed by chaser and chasee. A dialogue-free animated film is unthinkable for the major studios to ever entertain the possibility of attempting. "The Triplets of Belleville" at times, makes you believe you're witnessing a miracle.… Expand

Great animation but slow story.

Brilliant.

I was blitzed high when I watched this so perhaps I was all the more mesmerized, but I loved the dark and strange animation and storyline. It got your mind working; there were so many nooks and cranny's to each scene so much well layered imagery and a rather compelling plot that made everything work together as such a tight cohesive unit. For those who like mainstream culture this is likely not for you, but for something different and truly unique that is well worth watching, pick this one up.… Expand

This was unwatchably bad. My expectations for a good cartoon were completely and utterly dashed and I was left thinking that either the director or myself have some kind of thought disorder. Perhaps I am missing something but 'The Triplets' was so boring that the time I spent watching it was almost entirely wasted.

Triplettes is just terrific - also thanks to the collaboration of Flemish animation players Vivi Film, Walking the Dog and ArtDog. Thanks to them pic got finished in time for Cannes this year. And they delivered some of the most stunning parts like the opening and signed for all the 3D work on the actual Tour de France scenes.