History WesternAnimation / TheTripletsOfBelleville

* GainaxEnding: Although, this trope might be averted, being the whole film, up until that point, could possibly be seen as and is more likely a flashback.

Champion enters the TourDeFrance, but is kidnapped partway through by mysterious [[TheMafia mob thugs]]. Madame Souza, with Bruno's help, follows them by truck, on foot, and by boat, winding up in the fanciful [[TheCity city of Belleville]].

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** Even the radio commentator on the Tour is based on a real person, in this case racer-turned-sportswriter Robert Chapatte.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The Bach song played on television that inspires Madame Souza to cheer up a despondent Champion by teaching him to play the piano accompanies his misfortune again when the French Mafia starts kidnapping cyclists, and later, Madame Souza switches from playing Belleville Rendez-vous for the Triplets to the same song, likely implying that she explains her situation and troubles to them offscreen.

** Except, the mechanic is clearly shown wearing those oven mitts to protect his ears, the paper thin disguise would really be the false mustache and buck teeth the triplets paste onto Madame Souza's upper lip.

* {{Badass Grand|pa}}ma: Madame Souza is a tiny, club-footed old woman who is persistent enough to follow an ocean liner across the entire Atlantic in a ''foot-pedalled boat'', at night, during a huge storm at sea, to the accompaniment of Mozart's "Mass in C Minor - Kyrie". She kicks over a car too. The eponymous Triplets are no slouches either; for elderly vaudeville performers, they have surprising proficiency with explosives.

* ChaseScene: The film's climax -- a classic car chase, complete with [[LemmingCops pursuers gradually being killed off]], [[EveryCarIsAPinto cars exploding at the slightest provocation]], an UnderTheTruck InstantConvertible, an [[FruitCart imperiled baby carriage]], the RailroadTracksOfDoom ''and'' a TrainEscape... truly {{Troperiffic}}. The fact that several of these are played with and subverted (and the fact it's ended by a tiny old lady ''kicking over a speeding car'') saves it from ClicheStorm. It's also [[LowSpeedChase incredibly slow]] -- the heroes' escape vehicle is the bike simulator that moves at a visibly slow clip. The cars that give chase ''do'' catch up, but because the bike simulator is very broad, it is impossible to overtake it by car. The only thing the Mafia goons could do was to drive behind it and shoot at the drivers, which is what they did.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Madame Souza's shoe's extended heel]]. Actually, just about every element introduced in the movie is one. Including, of course, the eponymous triplets.
** The Triplets are incredibly protective of their vacuum cleaner, icebox, and newspaper. Exactly why eventually becomes clear.

* CrapsackWorld: Madame Souza's countryside home quickly gets swallowed up by an expanding, dreary Paris, and Belleville has either disgusting amounts of opulence or poverty -- everyone is either obese or just skin and bones. And the less said about the food, the better.
* {{Determinator}}: Repeat: Madame Souza paddled all the way over to a whole different continent through a storm to rescue her grandson.

** The waitress that serves hamburgers has a circular pin on her chest, and something what seems to be her name (could be her name tag?) written on it: Fanny Roberts.

'''Champion:''' (''now an old man'') I think that's probably it. It's over, Grandma.

* HandicappedBadass: The guitar player on the intro scat number is missing three of his left hand's fingers; this does not hinder him from playing harmoniously. When you think that it doesn't get better, he starts playing a solo with his left foot's toes replacing his hand, which is free now to remove the cigarette from his mouth. (NOTE: The guitar player is a direct caricature of the great French guitarist Django Reinhardt, who really did have two fingers missing from his left hand. Didn't impair his brilliant performance a bit.)

* MailmanVsDog: Bruno barks at the train each time it passes - he even knows when it's about to come. Then comes an InvertedTrope when Bruno dreams he is on the train and the passengers are barking at him. Then in Belleville the trope is taken to its LogicalExtreme and a subway train passes every minute!

* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Madame Souza for the most part while the Triplets seem to be of the same height as they were decades ago.

** UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, seen on the television set later in the film.

* PretentiousLatinMotto: All the French Mafia's license plates say ''In vino veritas'' "In wine, truth."

* TakeThat: The scene which shows the run-down house where the Triplettes have to live also shows for a few seconds a toilet clearly not flushed [[spoiler:- the feces form the famous Mickey Mouse head.]]
* TheAllegedCar: The French version: the mobsters drive stretch versions of Citroën 2CVs, which are ridiculously underpowered cars to which a WV Beetle compares favourably. Fittingly enough, they're shown to be as underpowered and easily disabled as a stretch version of an actual 2CV would be, although they probably wouldn't be destroyed by a collision into a baby cart or be able to be flipped over by a MiniatureSeniorCitizen with a club foot.

'''''Les Triplettes de Belleville''''', a.k.a. '''''The Triplets of Belleville''''' or '''''Belleville Rendez-vous''''', is a 2003 French animated film by animator and writer Creator/SylvainChomet. For all its quirky twists and turns, it ultimately becomes an introspective character study rather than simply a piece of popular entertainment. It's also tied together by some truly fantastic jazz and period-inspired music by Benoît Charest and features almost no dialogue.

Here, she encounters the eponymous [[CoolOldLady triplets]], aged former Vaudeville stars now living out their days going bombing for frogs and playing trios on the newspaper, refrigerator, and vacuum cleaner.

* TheOnlyOne: Souza (and Bruno) set off to save Champion herself. No mention is made if PoliceAreUseless - they aren't even brought up.

* {{Badass Grand|pa}}ma: Madame Souza is a tiny, club-footed old woman who is persistent enough to follow an ocean liner across the entire Atlantic in a ''foot-pedalled boat'', at night, during a huge storm at sea, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic to the accompaniment of Mozart's "Mass in C Minor - Kyrie"]]. She kicks over a car too. The eponymous Triplets are no slouches either; for elderly vaudeville performers, they have surprising proficiency with explosives.

'''''Les Triplettes de Belleville''''', a.k.a. '''''The Triplets of Belleville''''' or '''''Belleville Rendez-vous''''', is a 2003 French animated film by animator and writer Creator/SylvainChomet. For all its quirky twists and turns, it ultimately becomes an introspective character study rather than simply a piece of popular entertainment. Basically, a cartoon for adults that ''doesn't'' rely on shock humor, pop culture references, or [[AuthorTract one-sided soapboxing disguised as sociopolitical satire]]. Also tied together by some truly fantastic jazz and period-inspired music by Benoît Charest.

Oh, and by the way, it's (almost) completely without dialogue.

* LullDestruction: Averted: Moments of quiet appear where they would in a live-action film.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[IncrediblyLamePun Ha h]][[SarcasmMode a ha!]] No, but seriously, what happened to that mechanic? He was knocked unconscious and stuffed into a chest. He was never seen again.

Oh, and by the way, it's (almost) completely silent.

'''''Les Triplettes de Belleville''''', a.k.a. '''''The Triplets of Belleville''''' or '''''Belleville Rendez-vous''''', is a 2003 French animated film by animator and writer Sylvain Chomet. For all its quirky twists and turns, it ultimately becomes an introspective character study rather than simply a piece of popular entertainment. Basically, a cartoon for adults that ''doesn't'' rely on shock humor, pop culture references, or [[AuthorTract one-sided soapboxing disguised as sociopolitical satire]]. Also tied together by some truly fantastic jazz and period-inspired music by Benoît Charest.

Together, the motley crew must use their quick wits and bizarre skills to outfox the mob and rescue Champion. Oh, and by the way, it's (almost) completely silent.

* BlandNameProduct: One of the products sponsoring the Tour de France among others is called "La Valkyrie Fromage", which the winner takes a photo with its [[BrawnHilda mascots/models]]. And its logo is very reminiscent of the Laughing Cow Cheese, as it is the picture of a red-skinned Valkyrie, smiling.

'''''Les Triplettes de Belleville''''', a.k.a. '''''The Triplets of Belleville''''' or '''''Belleville Rendez-vous''''', is a 2003 French animated film by animator and writer Sylvain Chomet. For all its quirky twists and turns, it ultimately becomes an introspective character study rather than simply a piece of popular entertainment. Basically, a cartoon for adults. Also tied together by some truly fantastic jazz and period-inspired music by Benoît Charest.

* SilenceIsGolden: This film has a lively musical soundtrack but otherwise is essentially a silent film; there is almost no spoken dialogue.

* HandicappedBadass: The guitar player on the intro scat number is missing three of his left hand's fingers; this does not hinder him from playing harmoniously. When you think that it doesn't get better, he starts playing a solo with his left foot's toes replacing his hand, which is free now to remove the cigarette from his mouth.

* NationalStereotypes: The film pokes fun at various aspects of the French, such as frog eating (the Triplets dine on tadpole-seasoned frogs), their obsession with the Tour de France (or the Circuit de France as it's called in-world) and the French's infamous poor-quality [[TheAllegedCar cars]]; it also shows that the entire population of America is morbidly obese.