The Triplets of Belleville

Parents need to know that The Triplets of Belleville is a 2003 Oscar-nominated French animated comedy. While French is spoken in the movie, there is hardly any dialogue -- like a silent movie, the action is conveyed visually and through song. During a flashback to a vaudeville show from the 1930s, an African woman dances with her bare breasts exposed. A bicyclist, after passing out onto the floor from exhaustion, is shot and killed by a mobster. Mobsters are killed by a tossed bomb onto the balcony where they sit. Other mobsters are killed by moving trains, and by falling into a ship's smokestack. In the hallway of a seedy apartment, prostitutes stand around their pimp. In this same hallway is a bathroom with an unflushed toilet containing fecal matter. Cigarette and cigar smoking. Wine drinking. For those sensitive to cruelty to animals in any form, a woman catches frogs by tossing a bomb into a pond; when the bomb explodes, dead frogs plop onto rocks, and some frogs limp off injured, and even after they are cooked for soup, one frog is shown still clinging to life in the soup bowl. Also, mobsters pull guns on a dog. A large woman walks into a theater with her small husband wedged in between her buttocks. During a bicycle race, a little boy has his hand on the bikini bottom of the woman next to him.