| The Triplets of Belleville | 
| Director: Sylvain Chomet
Actors: Mari-lou Gauthier, Lina Boudreau, Beatrice Bonifassi, Michel Robin, Michele Caucheteux
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (284 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2510
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 81 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD03231D
ISBN: 1404948570
UPC: 043396032316
EAN: 9781404948570
ASIN: B0001IN0MQ
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Product Description
Champion is a lonely little boy. Noticing that hes happiest on a bicycle his grandmother puts him through a rigorous training process. Years later champion enters the tour de france & is kidnapped. His grandmother sets out to rescue him & encounters the renowned triplets of bellville. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/25/2008 Run time: 81 minutes Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com
Words cannot capture the delights of The Triplets of Belleville, an astonishing animated movie from the mind of French director Sylvain Chomet. In fact, there are only a few spoken sentences in the entire film; most of the soundtrack is a mix of squeaks, barks, and the jazzy music of Benoit Charest. A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets. This hand-drawn movie is unlike anything you'll see from Disney; every scene mixes the silent comedy of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton--in which the world of objects subtly fights with living beings for mastery--and the bouncy hop of Betty Boop. Unique and mesmerizing. --Bret Fetzer
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 I love the dog November 19, 2008
This is a seriously cool animated film. The dog is so funny that it brings a smile to my face just thinking about it. And the grandmother ... sheesh!
However, the real star of the film is the soundtrack. The three old ladies playing the refrigerator, newspaper and vacuum cleaner, accompanied by grandma on the bicycle wheel is priceless.
Get it. Watch it. I dare you not to laugh out loud.
The Best October 30, 2008
This film excels in so many ways!
The drawing is terrific, both in terms of characters and remarkable overviews of the settings.
The characters are so imaginatively rendered, and refreshingly different from American stock
characters. I would say that the character of the dog alone is worth the price of the dvd!
So many surprises and innovations in approach to characters, story, and settings.
But we also get the traditional satisfaction out of real villains, and the remarkable heroism of....GRAMA.
A wonderful journey, wonderful laughs.
Triplets of Belleville September 30, 2008
My entire grown family really enjoyed this wonderful film!!Its so bizzare and true to life at the same time, saying so much without a single word... we just loved it!!
Best animated movie? September 22, 2008
That's my opinion. The animation is glorious and unique. I can't wait for Sylvain's next movie.
 Solid September 21, 2008
The film is far too long, at 90 minutes. It could have been greatly heightened by being cut in , or preferably to 1/3 its length. It suffers from what much of silent films suffer from, in retrospect. The propulsion of the narrative by broad sweeping gestures is innately heightening, condensing, therefore many of the scenes later on, in the film, become mere recapitulations of earlier scenes whose points were made. Such concision invites imbuement, not explanation, & while the purpose of the tale is never explained, too many needless little bits of exposition are- such as Bruno's dream, or the montage showing the extended oddities of the triplets, since, just 1 look at them, & 1 instance adequately set them up as weirdos we feel something for.
Many critics have pointed out that the film has many layers of throwaway references & tweaks- be it comments on Hollywood & organized crime's financial connections, to pot shots taken at Walt Disney, to homages to obscure cartoon stars of the Great Depression. These may all be true, & heighten the film to its lovers, but to impartial tastes they tend to distract from the overall thrust of the film, which has many virtues- focus not being 1 of them.
As for the DVD, there are requisite making of films & a commentary, but anyone expecting any deeper explication of the film itself will be disappointed. Yet, that's a good thing for, flawed as it is, The Triplets Of Belleville deserves accolades for at least trying to be something unique. That it won an Oscar for it is more of a comment on what its competition lacked than what it possessed. Which may be, in retrospect, the very point of Madame Souza's devotion to her grandson, & why so many people connected with it.
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