Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

datautisticgamer-74853 This was the final movie I had received from my brother as a gift. As usual, we spent time today viewing it. I came into this movie not knowing what to expect at all, considering the DVD case had an awkward focus. Anyway, what lies inside?One thing inside is a story that offers a minuscule quantity of darkness (there is one scene that is genuinely horrifying while most of the others are either surreal or just strange), some action at the end, and highly effective humor that emulates those of 40's and 50's cartoons (think Tom & Jerry or Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies style slapstick). Going on with the humor, it also incorporates more contemporary visual gags such as a noticeable but not distractingly high amount of gross-out. It all comes with just sporadic dialogue, but is paced and conveyed in a manner that the plot is easier to understand than other films with infrequent voicing (one of the reasons why I wasn't overly pleased with The Red Turtle). The eponymous Triplets, while not the main characters, are indeed the true stars of this movie, for they provide the most memorable ideas in how Madame Souza learns about their lifestyle and contribute to the humor during the action segment at the end. While Mme Souza, Champion, and Bruno are indeed the focus very early on, and do have an interesting story, I honestly felt that the Triplets were the characters who made this movie; after all, they are The Triplets of Belleville. The animation features mostly hand-drawn environments that are interspersed with cel-shaded objects and CGI effects, including the characters in the Tour de France scene. It works exquisitely as a style combination and marvelously enhances the visual gags such as Belleville's counterpart of the Statue of Liberty. There is the music too, which isn't too memorable but is undeniably catchy and, conceptually, is ear candy. The Triplets' music reminds me a lot of the occasional street bands we get in the Loop, as they use scrap to play a type of music only the stone-brained could ignore. Frankly, it was a pristine connection to have.If you enjoy French animation, movies that are on the opposite side of the character dialogue spectrum than Planes, 30's to 40's style movies, or even animation in general, I'm sure there is something in this film that will make you walk out pleased. Granted it isn't too ambitious, but probably reservation was the best thing for this movie considering how its setting was like that IRL. I enjoyed it, and you might too.

SnoopyStyle Madame Souza and her grandson used to watch the singing Triplets of Belleville on TV. She raises her orphaned grandson by herself and encourages him to be a great cyclist. He enters the Tour de France. He and others are kidnapped and shipped to a criminal boss who runs his own tour with stationary bikes. Souza and their overweight dog Bruno follow the ship to Belleville where they are befriended by the eccentric frog-eating Triplets of Belleville. While performing with the Triplets at a nightclub, Bruno sniffs out his owner's scent on the mob boss.I love the unique ugly style that is done so beautifully. It's wonderfully weird and surreal. I don't think the story moves fast enough. There is a lack of urgency at times. There is more than one dream sequence for the dog. This is an unique vision but the slower scenes get a bit repetitive. The lack of dialog is another part of that uniqueness.

siderite For me this film represented tradition. Tradition of animation, French and American cultural traditions, the tradition that gives you a purpose in life, but then becomes oppressive and finally corrupted by money.A film done in 2003, it presents a style of animation that is reminiscent of early Disney, but more grotesque. None of the characters are even remotely beautiful and the world is shown as consumerist, crowded with ugly people, polluted by industry and corrupted by human nature. The story, while funny, is irrelevant; instead the details are the ones that count. I loved the "origin story" of the train barking and tiny details that pop up all over the film: the boyscout, the Disney castle fireworks thing, the unstoppable "mémè" and many more.Bottom line: almost devoid of meaningful dialogue, this piece of artistic animation works on many levels at once. It is not a children cartoon, nor is it some easy film to be watched with hamburgers and French fries (even if, based on the story, it seems to me to be the perfect menu for watching it). I loved it and hated it at the same time and now, writing the review, I feel haunted by the images. You should watch this.

Steve Pulaski Many animated films bring forth a recognizable presence on screen, but The Triplets of Belleville brings the damnedest of them all. It's a unique little animated feature, with a lot of style, a lot of heart, and a lot of enigma and illusion presented in its meager runtime. It is a delightful break from the polished mainstream animation, yet I don't believe it's the break a lot of people will be so willing to take.First off, the color pallet takes time to adapt to. It seems someone created storyboards for the film and poured oil all over them. Everything is in a dim green, brown, yellow, or muted tint (very different from the brazen style of candy colors we're so used to seeing today). But it is so limitless and appealing and works on such a wonderful level for the film's imagination. It makes itself out to be modest, yet delivers so much promise and life into its very simplistic screenplay, or lack thereof.The film is mostly silent, punctuated by lively scenes of vaudevillian style musical numbers. We follow Madame Souza, a grandmother to a boy named Champion. He is depressed and very lonely after the implied death of his parents. Souza buys him an irresistible dog named Bruno, but his interest is only held for a short time. When Champion develops a fondness for competitive cycling, Souza buys him a tricycle. We fast-forward several years later where the same boy, now a man, is being coached by Souza for the Tour De France.When he races in the Tour De France, he is kidnapped by the strangest of goons and taken to an unknown location. Souza and Bruno become desperate to find him, and stumble into the care of three elderly women known as the "Belleville Triplets." They are taken in, fed and sheltered, yet are still determined to find Champion and the French henchmen that took him.Besides the unique animation, one of the first things you will notice is the intense and quirky character design. Many characters in the film are disproportionated in size, or are presented as bigger, bulkier, smaller, thinner, wider, or boxier (the henchman have thick, box-like shoulders), with heavy emphasis on muscles and especially facial structure. The result is totally mesmerizing and extremely beyond convention. It gives the film such a surrealistic feeling, but that's not the only thing that contributes to that idea.I define surrealism as realism with a strong twist on obscurity or a strong twist on reality, where logic is strictly applied or noticeably bent. The Triplets of Belleville mixes some live action sequences with stylish old video, particularly, the bike stimulation sequence and the water when traveling at sea. For all I know, those were authentic sea currents.Another thing the film does impeccably well is it conveys emotion using very little dialog. Most of the time, we hear a soft, melodic tune play comfortingly in the background, and once in a while, the triplets will break out into a great, perfectly executed musical number. The emotion is not presented through the window of heavy sentiment, but with crystal clear expression, music tonality, and character appearances all naturally and not in a heavy-handed manner.The Triplets of Belleville is such an admirably different film, but saying that doesn't even do it justice. It establishes this world, which is brilliantly surreal and conceived effervescently, erects it on captivating whimsy and Sylvain Chomet's stunning animation, and relies on subtle, controlled nuances to carry itself through its runtime. Keep in mind, this is a world where animated films are boastful and boisterous in their color, design, and structure, and along comes a film so serene and joyous that we are surprised at it and ourselves for liking it. What an impressionistic gem of a picture.Directed by: Sylvain Chomet.