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  Review by Branson Reese

  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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  Review by Rakestraw ★★★★½ 3

  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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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★★

  Cinematic Time Capsule
  2003 Marathon - Film #66

  The Name: Souza… Madame Souza.

  The Assets: A rolly-polly trainspotting dog named Bruno and three elderly frog-devouring vaudevillians known as the “The Triplets of Belleville”

  The Mission: To find and recover grandson Champion. A spaced-out cyclist who’s been kidnapped by some mysterious big-shouldered gangsters.

  This was the first French movie to ever receive a Best Animated Feature Oscar nod and it’s lack of dialogue combined with it’s bizarre use of objects makes it feel like a Jacques Tati produced episode of Liquid Television.

  BONUS POINTS for the overall style and especially Bruno’s railrodder dreams which gave me instant flashbacks to a childhood favorite: The Secret Railroad

  
  Cinematic Time Capsule - 2003 Ranked

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  Review by Felipe ★★★½ 2

  Never have I felt more confused about I film I know I liked. It feels like this movie comes from a different dimension. 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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  Review by Sebas ★★★½ 6

  I will never go to France

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  Review by cal 🥪 ★★★ 2

  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 CGI

  good music though!

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  tour de franced for scav hunt 20
  task 20 - a non-american and non-japanese animated movie

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  Review by Ethan ❄️

  I love this stout animated mother with her musical bicycle wheel more than I love myself.

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  Review by Simon Ramshaw ★★★★★ 3

  The best film ever, and I don't know why.

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★½ 2

  Jacques Tati's art nouveau Finding Nemo.

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  Review by Sudhakar Kumar ★★★★★

  This is an animated movie to fall in love with.
  
  There is more imagination in this film's puny 80 minutes than in all the other films I've seen this year put together.

  It’s surreal, sweet, cooler-than-cool, tremendously dorky, nearly silent, has one of the most bangin’ jazz soundtracks ever, abruptly becomes a mobster crime thriller for a bit, has the thickest lil chonky dog you’ll ever wanna pet, and it will stick to your brain and never let go.

  You may love it, you may hate it, but you've never seen anything like it.

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  Review by Josh Kadish ★★★★½ 1

  This movie is so French that the Triplets *exclusively* eat frogs.

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  Review by Danny Webster ★★★★ 5

  Film #8 from Gustav's list.

  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…