Current music:

I fought the law - Colin Farrell & Cillian Murphy

Animation is serious business!
Ahhhh IMDB you never fail to hit the spot with your population of pre-teen psychos and self-righteous morons, this wank falls in the latter category.

I remember hearing the catchy song to this movie at the Academy Awards last year. The movie just came on like 45 minutes ago. Me and my sister recognized the name. We didn't make it 3 minutes. First of all the drawings were all wierd and funny and gave me the creeps. The final straw for me was when the topless black woman in a banana bottom came out to dance. WHAT THE *beep* Do you find this *beep* funny?! This was some of the most insulting drivel I've ever seen!!!! It disgusts me!! I would like to punch the illustrator right in the face!!

She's not wrong the song is damn catchy but clearly she's a little clueless on culture, elnuino attempts to edumacate her;

Don't take it personal. It was an allusion to a famous dancer of the 20's, Josephine Baker. Just check this:
http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/cinerama/python/13/baker2.html

while bridgecross settles for enjoying their own superiority

I don't suppose you recognized any of the other characters in the intro? Your loss.

Galneon fans the flames

I hope your oversensitive and insecure being, whatever color you are, does not reside in my country. Grow some skin and quit whining.

Prompting more predictable indignation from Eqwana

Please explain to me how I'm insecure? And please excuse the he ll out of me for becoming offended at a gross caricature that depicts my entire race as a bunch of monkeys swinging in trees. As long as you're having fun right? You need to get your head examined if you can't see how I'd find that offensive. Or maybe you're just racist already. In that case, just say so and go on your way. I can live with racist people in the world. And by the way, I live in the USA.

Other people make more sensible comments about Josephine Baker but galneon proceeds to compete in the stupid olympics:

I make subconscious judgments regarding all ethnic groups (including my own) based on what I've read, heard and seen before, just like everyone else in the world. Your ridiculous tendency to get offended over nothing enters my memory, and I subconsciously recall that everytime I see someone of your race and judge them accordingly. It's not racism, but the way perception and the human mind works. You have yourself and others to blame for the way I view your ethnic group, just as you can blame me and my race, and of course other thin-skinned whiners like yourself, for the way you see white people. Thanks for contributing.

It's all good fun.

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	drworm 2005-06-17 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, and that's such a great movie too... sighs Ignorance burns. (Reply to this)

heddychaa
2005-06-17 11:03 pm UTC (link)

Belleville Rendez-vous?

well, whatever title works when marketed wherever, I suppose. I can't imagine them translating it into english, though. I watched it in French and I don't think there were any more than three spoken lines in the whole thing XD.

At any rate, that movie was freakin' hilarious. And the animation was fantastic. so unique and weird. I loved the character designs!

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	stardefiant 2005-06-17 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yeah, Belleville Rendez-vous was the UK release title. Not translated though, like you said that would have been kinda pointless! The animation does rock like a big rocking thing, I want Madame Souza to be my grandma! (Reply to this)(Parent)

redjackcash
2005-06-17 11:13 pm UTC (link)

In the US it was marketed as, "The Triplets of Belleville", and kept in the original French.

It's a shame that the poster couldn't get past the opening sequence, as the film becomes totally different. I always interpreted the first part as not only an illusion to times past in events, but in style - the Josephine Baker caricature is meant to be an allusion to cartoons of old...

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	mistressrenet 2005-06-17 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think the poster would have been able to figure out the movie if she couldn't get the allusion in that opening sequence. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	canisetlupus 2005-06-18 12:16 am UTC (link)
	The whole intro sequence is inspired by the Fleischer brothers. Not only the humor is more adult and absurd and takes place on a big city, but the characters are in perennial movement. Not even Disney did that: that kind of animation is really expensive. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)