Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

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. Hearing about a film this special isn't enough. It demands to be seen, and it generously rewards those who, like Madame Souza, let nothing stand in their way.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

The year's most ingenious and original animated feature.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

The most joyously cinematic movie I've seen this year. Chomet's astonishing imagination conjures images you could swear you've seen in your dreams.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Children may enjoy it, aside from the youngest, who might find it too weird for comfort. Its main audience is adults, though. And not just any adults, but those in the mood for venturesome fare that's both surreal and hilarious.

Time by Richard Corliss

Triplettes is terrific…there's no competition for the fall's most imaginative delight. In that race, Triplettes can already take its victory lap.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

An insanely delicious animated feature.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Chomet's wacky tale is so crammed full of eye-popping images, it's impossible to forget afterward.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

This divinely eccentric movie feels as if it came straight to the screen from one man’s wild and wantonly free imagination.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

Both a nostalgic throwback to the silent-picture era and an ultra-modern animated tale, the slyly humorous Triplets of Belleville is artful, engrossing and oddly touching.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

All you really need to enjoy "Triplets" is a taste for the weird and the wonderful.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

May be the oddest movie of the year, by turns sweet and sinister, insouciant and grotesque, invitingly funny and forbiddingly dark. It may also be one of the best, a tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief and unlikely sublimity.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

It's comic, touching and a visual knockout.

Variety by Lisa Nesselson

Almost completely dialogue-free but graced with terrific sound design and a swell score.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

A highly satirical work, albeit without the "in your face" style of "South Park."

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

Such is the hazard of the cartoon: as a form, it thrives on elongation and excess, yet, within its vortices and crannies, who knows what moldy prejudice can breed? [1 December 2003, p. 118]