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Review: The Triplets of Belleville (**)



 
 
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Old December 13th 03, 01:11 AM
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Default Review: The Triplets of Belleville (**)

THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
A film review by Steve Rhodes

Copyright 2003 Steve Rhodes

RATING (0 TO ****): **


THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE) is a dialog-free,
animated film for adults that would have made a great short film, but,
without speech or much of a story, it is seventy-five minutes too long.



This joint French, Belgian and Canadian production is lushly and beautifully
drawn but has nothing to offer children and little to offer adults. Its
PG-13 rating is another joke played on unsuspecting audiences by the MPAA.
If this weren't an animated movie, I couldn't imagine the MPAA giving it a
PG-13 rating since it features an extended flopping boobs sequence,
intercourse with a standing prostitute and feces in the toilet. Parents who
do take their kids to see this PG-13 rated animated film will be quite
surprised to find these R-rated aspects in a PG-13 movie.



Forgetting completely about the film's rating, there just isn't enough in it
to sustain anything more than a short. The film reminds one of GERRY,
another of this year's head scratchers, which was an all-visual and nearly
dialog-free production.



The story concerns the rescue of a kidnapped Tour de France cyclist. Some
of the story's bizarre incidents are cute, almost cute enough to generate
smiles, but no laughs. In one incident, an old woman fishes for frogs using
a hand grenade. In another, a different old woman uses household
appliances -- egg beater, manual lawnmower and a vacuum cleaner -- to work
the sore muscles of her bicyclist relative.



THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is another of this year's disappointing holiday
films. Oh well, that gives you plenty of time to see THE RETURN OF THE KING
again and again.



THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE runs a very long 1:20. The film is rated PG-13
for "images involving sensuality, violence and crude humor" and would be
acceptable for teenagers.



The film, which is playing now in limited release, opens nationwide in the
United States on Friday, December 19, 2003. In the Silicon Valley, it will
be showing at the AMC theaters, the Century theaters and the Camera Cinemas.



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