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	The Triplets of Belleville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I was fascinated by The Triplets of Belleville, but not nearly as fascinated as I was by the critical response to The Triplets of Belleville.
		Triplets is original but not groundbreaking, clever but not brilliant, amusing but not funny, imaginative but not fantastic.
		Upon running into Madam Souza one day, the triplets are impressed with her knack for music and invite her into her home and seems to offer assistance in looking for Champion.
	www.filmnote.com /Film/T/TripletsofBelleville.htm (343 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		From what little I'd seen or heard regarding the "Triplets of Belleville" I was expecting it to be a kooky Gaulic cartoon featuring the eponymous triplets; which it certainly does near the end of the film, but they aren't the central characters of the film, nor as prominent as I'd imagined.
		"Triplets of Belleville" opens with an old clip (a movie within a movie) of the triplets romping through their song "Rendezvous" and as the camera pans back we are in a stylized version of de Gaulle's France.
		Rather than simplistic, "Triplets of Belleville" works on many levels; the desire of the grandmother to fulfill her young grandson's ambition of becoming a Tour de France cyclist, a goal he attains only to become captured by the French Mafia along with other cyclists and is whisked away to Belleville.
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B0001OKTLK (529 words)

	Les Triplettes de Belleville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Les Triplettes de Belleville (aka Belleville Rendez-vous-UK title and in English The Triplets of Belleville) is a 2003 French-Belgian-Canadian animated feature film directed and written by Sylvain Chomet.
		While he is a child, she buys him a tricycle, and as the years pass he achieves such excellence as a bicycle rider that he enters the Tour de France.
		With the aid of the family dog Bruno, Madame Souza sets off across the Atlantic on a small pedalo to the city of Belleville where she meets the Triplettes, now aged and decrepit but still performing, and between them they set out to rescue her grandson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Triplets_of_Belleville (419 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville (2003) - Moovees.com Review
		It is in the big city that grandma meets up with the “Triplets” of Belleville, and together they hatch a plot to free the young cyclist from captivity.
		Belleville completely comes alive on screen from the moment it starts, and it celebrates and carries on the tradition of inspired lunacy and warmth that the genre is so well known for.
		Belleville manages to be about the same type of subject (losing someone close to you), but the story is brought forth in an incredibly original manner.
	www.moovees.com /review/rayj/triplets-of-belleville.html (580 words)

	AnimWatch - The Triplets of Belleville - feature - NOV 2003
		The Triplets are sort of the opposite of the typical heroes from mainstream animated movies.
		It (Belleville) is sometimes mistaken for a symbol of New York only - I suppose because of the obese Statue of Liberty which briefly appears in the establishing shot of the city, and the skyscrapers.
		The Baroque elements used in Belleville architecture are more reminiscent of European castles and also intend to reinforce the impression of excessive abundance in the city.
	www.animwatch.com /Feature04-Triplets.php (1651 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville \| Gerald Peary - film reviews
		Triplets, still animated, turns to color, and we are in a house somewhere in France in what appears to be, though it's never specified, the mid-1950s.
		Triplets is never cutesy, and certainly never sentimental, and none of the characters are there to win your heart.
		The Triplets of Belleville also shows its allegiance to the French master comic, Jacques Tati, with a poster from his 1953 Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, and also a scene on a television of Tati, appropriately on a bicycle, in his 1949 film, Jour de Fete.
	www.geraldpeary.com /reviews/stuv/triplets.html (936 words)

	MichaelBarrier.com -- Commentary: The Triplets of Belleville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the opening minutes of Belleville Rendez-vous, the feature-length cartoon released in the U.S. in November 2003 as The Triplets of Belleville, the French animator-director Sylvain Chômet reveals his program for the entire film, although it's not clear for a while just how sly and subtle that program is.
		The city of Belleville itself is similarly odd, a wildly baroque New York most of whose residents are morbidly obese (another example of that savagely satirical European tradition at work).
		Belleville is filled with sounds and images—the towering freighter, the coffin-shaped gangsters—that reinforce the dreamlike atmosphere but don't have any obvious parallels in the Fleischer cartoons.
	www.michaelbarrier.com /Commentary/Belleville/Belleville.htm (1285 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Triplets Of Belleville
		Belleville's rough-hewn sketchiness and exaggerated characteristics—Madame Souza's club foot, Champion's monstrous calf muscles, the bent-over backwards Maitre'd, the mousey inventor, and the Thug's squared-off shoulders—communicate more about their personalities and their environment than words could ever hope to convey.
		Presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, The Triplets of Belleville is a feast for the eyes.
		Sylvain Comet and The Triplets of Belleville are awarded the highest order of accomplishment for storytelling and urged to continue developing more tales to enchant the world.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/tripletsbelleville.php (1152 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville (2003) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Along their trek they are aided by the triplets of Belleville, a high spirited group of elderly sisters who make a living doing song and dance numbers.
		Triplets of Belleville also benefits from being a little darker and edgier than typical animated fare.
		The sequence in which the triplets, grandma, and Bruno dine on a meal comprised of frog parts was a hoot, and I won,t soon forget it.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2003/the-triplets-of-belleville.php (538 words)

	Dan Schneider Reviews The Triplets Of Belleville
		When The Triplets Of Belleville won the Oscar for best animated film last year I have to admit I was a bit skeptical of its worth as a piece of art.
		In this new place Madame Souza is found living under a Belleville bridge, where she is befriended by the aged triplets, who still tend to croon the film’s signature song years after it was their lone hit.
		The triplets are tall, gangly, and almost witch-like in their appearance, while the gangsters are all stereotypes- 1 character being the epitome of a square-shouldered thug.
	www.cosmoetica.com /B216-DES156.htm (1033 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLVILLE
		It's there that they meet the legendary performing troupe, The Triplets of Belleville, a trio of elderly and eccentric sisters who were big in the '30s.
		THE TRIPLETS are three elderly and eccentric sisters who still perform on stage and decide to aid Souza in her quest to rescue her son.
		As the triplets perform a number on stage in the past, a topless dancer (all animated and somewhat exaggerated) appears and shakes her banana-covered rear as well as her bare breasts.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2003/the_triplets_of_belleville.html (1764 words)

	"The Triplets of Belleville" - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first 10 minutes of Sylvain Chomet's animated feature "The Triplets of Belleville" constitute one of the eeriest, most inventive and loveliest animated sequences I've ever seen: Rendered in the style of old fl-and-white Max Fleischer cartoons, a group of decked-out swells stream into a swanky nightclub.
		This is the setup for "The Triplets of Belleville," a story about the Tour de France, feisty old ladies, and one big fat dog, perhaps not necessarily in that order.
		If "The Triplets of Belleville" is any indication, Chomet, who was born in France and has lived in Canada since 1993, is one of the most inventive animators we've got.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/11/26/triplets/index_np.html (963 words)

	'The Triplets of Belleville' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		One of the pleasures of "Triplets" is its distinctive — and distinctively French — sensibility that is nothing like either the American Disney, the Japanese animé or any other style of animation.
		"Belleville" opens with one of its cleverest bits, an old newsreel (done in the form of a 1930s Max Fleischer cartoon) that shows the hobble-skirted, fox fur-wearing Triplets in their music-hall prime.
		Fast, funny, unexpected and uninhibited, "The Triplets of Belleville" may be animated, but it is also the product of an artistic vision every bit as rigorous as any lofty Cannes prize-winner.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-triplets26nov26,2,3766868.story?coll=cl-mreview (926 words)

	MovieContests.com » The Triplets of Belleville » Movie Review
		During the race, Champion is kidnapped by a trio of gangsters and taken to Belleville to pedal a bike in their rudimentary casino-style horse race.
		Once in Belleville, the grandmother hooks up with a group of Jazz Singers known as The Triplets of Belleville who take her in and help her with her quest to find her son.
		The Triplets of Belleville may be a dialogue-free motion picture, but that's not to say that sound doesn't play an important role in the film.
	www.canadamovies.net /reviews/tripletsofbelleville.html (719 words)

	Drawn That Way: The Triplets of Belleville
		A feast both for the ears and the eyes, The Triplets of Belleville is a surreal, unique movie experience that requires multiple viewings for truly complete comprehension.
		The look of Triplets is definitely "retro", and according to director Sylvain Chomet is a throwback to the '60s style of animation that was first used in Disney's 101 Dalmatians.
		Considering the numerous subtle anti-Disney digs that are scattered throughout The Triplets of Belleville, it's rather interesting that the visual design is an homage to the Mouse House.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=8338 (934 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville: A Movie Review by Jack Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The entire world of The Triplets of Belleville is a ridiculous caricature, in which the French have giant noses and dine on frogs, while the Americans are all monstrously obese.
		The film's final act, in which the Triplets, Souza and an emancipated Champion flee from the pursuing gangsters, is pretty boring and ends the entire film on an awkward note.
		The Triplets of Belleville is a triumph of imagination - a wonderful one-of-a-kind motion picture that has to be seen and heard to be believed.
	www.mooremovies.com /tripletsbelleville.htm (653 words)

	Amazon.com: The Triplets of Belleville: DVD: Michel Robin,Béatrice Bonifassi,Jean-Claude Donda,Mari-Lou ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Once in Belleville, Grandma enlists the help of a trio of eccentric stage performers who were once immensely popular as the Triplets of Belleville in a plot to free her grandson.
		Béatrice Bonifassi as Triplets, Lina Boudreau as Triplets, Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Mari-Lou Gauthier as Triplets, Charles Linton, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas, Béatrice Bonifassi as Triplets, Lina Boudreau as Triplets, Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Mari-Lou Gauthier as Triplets, Charles Linton, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas...
	www.amazon.com /Triplets-Belleville-Michel-Robin/dp/B0001IN0MQ (1941 words)

	France's 'Triplets': Three times the charm of Disney
		It's called "The Triplets of Belleville," it's a hand-drawn animated feature, it's French in origin (but with so little dialogue that nobody bothered to subtitle it in English), it's not aimed at children and it's pretty darned delightful.
		Belleville is both the Parisian working-class district where the story begins -- the setting of many classic French movies -- and the name director Sylvain Chomet gives to the film's Franco-ized version of New York City: what it might look like if French culture was the face of globalization.
		It sounds silly, and it's hard to describe the appeal of the film, but a lot of it is in the charm of its characters -- especially the determined heroine -- who are all eccentric and bizarre but act with a certain consistency and are strangely lovable.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/153906_triplets26q.html (582 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "The Triplets of Belleville" DVD Review by Dennis Landmann
		Despite moving slowly for the first hour or so, The Triplets of Belleville tells an enchanting and neat story about a mother who crosses an ocean to rescue her son from a kidnapping.
		When Madame Souza arrives at the port of Belleville, a large city in the veins of Paris and New York, we see her dog Bruno towing the paddle boat.
		I guess the only negative thing about The Triplets of Belleville is that it moves a little slow, and that it's not a film for the everyday viewer.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/t/tripletsofbelleville.htm (922 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But Chomet’s voice is a unique and vibrant one, and his mastery of the craft of cell animation is second to none (you’ll swear there are computer-assisted sequences here but you’d be wrong).
		This PG-13 rated “cartoon” begins with a grainy sequence of the titular triplets performing one of their famous numbers on television as a diminutive and doting grandmother prepares her angular nephew for the big race (in ways that are as inspired as they are absurd).
		As encouragement she buys him a bumbling puppy that grows into an overweight hound dog, one whose presence in the film becomes central (few filmmakers would take the silly sight of a dog barking at a passing train, for example, and milk it for 80 minutes straight).
	members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/tripletsofbelleville.htm (237 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville - Film - www.theage.com.au
		The Triplets of Belleville draws on the same nerdy nostalgia as Amelie, which is decidedly more monochromatic, recalling the nostalgia of old photographs that so impressed Chomet in his youth.
		There, she's taken in by a trio of ageing former French music-hall stars, the Triplets of Belleville, singers in the vein of the Andrews Sisters, and they become her detective partners, along with Bruno.
		The Triplets of Belleville is as much for children as for adults, he says.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/06/1083635270804.html (1214 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
		The Popkorn Junkie :: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
		Alas, "The Triplets of Belleville" not only surpasses the creativity and story of "Finding Nemo", but smashes it into a million pieces and makes Pixar look more like Strong Bad.
		The keys to his rescue are the Triplets of Belleville, former music hall stars.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/triplets.html (427 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Triplets of Belleville
		The population is an absurdist portrait of Americana—bloated citizens balloon in slow motion down the street, living to consume, a fact to which a briefly glimpsed and twistedly reworked Statue of Liberty readily attests (she holds up a dripping ice-cream cone and clasps a cheeseburger to her chest).
		Chomet opens the film with a vision of this past, a "newsreel" in sepia tones that captures the Triplets, singing and dancing celebrities from another generation, in their prime, perfectly aligned in voice and movement and grinning into the "camera" with maniac glee.
		Obsessed with performance, the Triplets make music where there is none, using the materials they find around them, from treasured refrigerators and newspapers to their own bodies, to make rhythms like old witches casting spells.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=926 (409 words)

	Ink 19 :: Triplets Of Belleville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abetted by her faithful hound, Bruno, she crosses the Ocean and ends up in the small city of Belleville where she receives unexpected help from three retired '30s chanteuses, "The Triplets Of Belleville." The Triplets are famous for making cabaret style songs with found items, like newspapers, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners.
		For example, The Triplets Of Belleville's opening musical number, complete with cameos by Josephine Baker and Fred Astaire, tips its hat to the innocence of Golden Age cartoons and the slapstick humor of silent film.
		Sylvain Chomet's experience as a comic strip writer accounts for the swiftly paced narrative and intricate animation prominent throughout "The Triplets Of Belleville." This experience expands Chomet's canvas, enabling him to tell a broader story in a shorter length of time without disengaging the viewer.
	www.ink19.com /issues/may2004/screenReviews/tripletsOfBelleville.html (564 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville (2003) - A Review by David Nusair
		While there's no denying that The Triplets of Belleville is a unique visual experience - a standard Disney cartoon this is not - the film's lack of plot and dialogue prevents me from giving it an outright positive review.
		Though I'm right on the precipice in terms of giving The Triplets of Belleville a positive or negative review, when it's all said and done, the film just isn't compelling enough to warrant a such a long running time (around 80 minutes).
		Had he included a story that was even half as compelling as the images on screen, The Triplets of Belleville would undoubtedly have been a worthy addition to the pantheon of great animated films.
	www.reelfilm.com /triplets.htm (363 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville Review
		His grandmother follows the gangsters to Bellville where she meets the Triplets, three old nightclub singers who were the toast of the town in their youth.
		Though the opening scene showing the triplets night club act in their Jazz Age heyday definitely has the loose, rubbery-limbed feel of pioneer animators Max Fleischer or Ub Iwerks, the bulk of the film sports its own unique look.
		The character designs are rich and expressive, from the symmetry of the mobsters to all the residents of Belleville being overweight.
	www.filmbuffonline.com /Reviews/TripletsOfBellevilleReview.htm (420 words)

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