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When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
The Triplets of Belleville
2003 ‘Les Triplettes de Belleville’ Directed by Sylvain Chomet
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Трио из Бельвиля, 疯狂约会美丽都, 美丽城三重唱, 佳麗村三姐妹, Las trillizas de Belleville, Belleville Rendez-vous, Trion från Belleville, Belleville Rendezvous
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Is there a story? Barely.
Is there rich, witty dialogue? No.
Is there any dialogue? Nope.
Is it gorgeously animated? Yes, yes, yes.The artwork animation on display in Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville is absolutely stunning in its execution. The characters that reside in this wonderful, simplistic world of cycling and train-barking are undeniably singular, you've never quite seen characters like this before; whether it's Madame Souza's mound of a figure, potato-faced with Fraggle Rock eyes or the ridiculousness of Champion, the perpetual cyclist with his rope torso perched atop his bike, powered by his ham hock calves and the wind against his jib nose or the elderly Belleville triplets all looking like a geriatric Janice from the…
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Love this movie but it loses some points because a girl I had a crush on in high school said I looked like the waiter and I did not care for that one bit
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Never have I felt more confused about I movie I know I liked.
It feels like this movie comes from a different dimention. It's both beautiful and ugly. It's funny, but not too funny. It's slow, but energetic. It's loud, but there's barely any dialogue.
I feel like I need to precess this film. And then process. And then process some more. I really liked it, it's just that I'm not entirely sure why.
One thing's for sure though. "Belleville Rendez-Vous", particularly the version tha plays during the credits, it's an absolute banger.
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I love this stout animated mother with her musical bicycle wheel more than I love myself.
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It turns out after watching the opening 20 minutes, that I recognised The Triplets of Belleville, the unique animation style, Bruno, Champion, the distorted proportions of size and grandma. Of course it turns out, this film was on UK TV a few years ago but I ended up turning it off and then forgetting about it.
But I remembered it the second I saw Bruno endearingly barking at the train each time it rumbled past - and I wonder what in earth possessed me to turn this film off those few years ago? Pah! It doesn't really matter.
The film, if to anyone's interest (which I strongly hope) is like a 1920's ode to family…
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What a strange and fascinating throwback. This Oscar nominated film features hand drawn animation evocative of a bygone era (think 1930-1950), a focus on visual storytelling (with a notable lack of dialogue), and a dog that gets its tail run over by a toy train when it's a puppy and spends the rest of the film barking madly at every single train it sees. And There Are. A Lot. Of Trains.
The story is pretty strange - some mobsters kidnap a woman's cyclist son, and she enlists the help of an aged trio of musical performers to help enact his rescue. Along the way, there are boy scouts slapped, frogs blown up with hand grenades, mouse-men knocked out and impersonated (immousenated?), and the most eclectic mix of percussion instruments you could ever imagine. Recommended.
Added to: Animated Family Films Ranked
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It's probably just me but The Triplets of Belleville is the most overrated film I've seen in awhile. Sporting a 7.8 on IMDB and a 94% tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes I expected to at least like this film. Instead I found the story to be completely uninteresting and boring. The animation was good I suppose, but even that didn't impress me much. Other than that I don't have much to say about it. I guess it just wasn't for me.
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an incomplete list of uncanny things in the triplets of belleville that freaked me the fuck out:
the exhausted cyclists
the box mafia
the really tall ships
the accordion girl
every goddamned nose on screen
the zombie frog
the fucking elastic maitre'd
the odd bursts of 3D and CGIgood music though!
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tour de franced for scav hunt 20
task 20 - a non-american and non-japanese animated movie -
With a barely functioning plot filled with minimal to no dialogues and steered by only a handful of characters, The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville) doesn't offer a lot in dramatic content if that's what you came looking for but its eccentric animation style, idiosyncratic details & satirical touches do just enough to sustain the interest.
Written & directed by Sylvain Chomet in his feature film debut, the story concerns a grandma who enlists the help of the eponymous troupe to rescue her kidnapped grandson. However, the treatment is so droll & dreary that the film feels stretched due to dull pacing & tedious execution. And what would've sufficed as a short film is drawn out to 78 long minutes.
Nevertheless, the…