Marcel The Shell With Shoes On(2021)
We dare you NOT to love Marcel. It is just impossible not to fall at the Chaplin-esque feet of this incredibly sweet one-inch-tall seashell. The funnily naive Marcel is a creation that dates back to 2010, when comedian Jenny Slate and her friend-director Dean Fleischer Camp invented him out of sheer boredom at a wedding. They uploaded a three-minute short on Youtube, which was met with millions of heartwarming reactions. Now, more than a decade, two more shorts and a bestselling book later, Marcel stars in his own feature stop-motion mockumentary.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On(2021)
Voiced by Jenny Slate, Marcel lives with his grandmother Connie (a larger shell with life experience to die for and voiced by the great Isabella Rossellini) in an L.A. house, abandoned by a fighting couple who have converted it into an Airbnb. Marcel is an admirable optimist who tackles practical issues shell-first, climbing the walls by attaching honey to his shoes, making music with a piece of pasta or making his way around in a hollow tennis ball. Yet, beneath his friendly and smiley manners lies a big grief. He and Connie were once part of a larger community which went missing after the couple moved out. When a filmmaker (Dean Fleischer Camp himself) rents the Airbnb, he decides to make a documentary on the duo and their odd lives, helping them in the process of reaching out to possible community members.
Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate have succeeded in the most difficult of tasks: translating a couple of shorts into a feature film without compromising on any of the ingredients that turned Marcel into a viral sensation. Better even, the film cleverly comments on Marcel's fame and how it influences his life. With a perceptive eye for the minutiae and the poetics of daily live, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a poignant animated therapy session for humans and shells alike. By the end of this 90-minute mollusc portrait, you will be cracking your voice when talking about shells. Whether he likes it or not: with Marcel, a star is born.
What did you think of this film? 4/5 - (2 votes) Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family. A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about finding connection in the smallest corners.
Slate reprises her role as Marcel, an inch-tall, talking seashell with shoes, living in a human house with his grandmother (Isabella Rossellini). With the aid of a human documentarian (Fleischer Camp), he sets out on a journey to find other talking shells like himself.
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colourful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family.
Dean Fleischer-Camp plays a director (also called Dean) who moves into an AirBnB and finds Marcel, the titular shell and yes, he does indeed have shoes on. Inspired, Dean begins to film Marcel and his Nana Connie as they go about their daily lives.
Marcel tells the story of the titular shell (voiced by Slate), an adorable one-inch-tall being who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and their pet lint, Alan.
As the title suggests, Marcel (voiced by Slate) is a shell with shoes who was left behind with his Aunt Connie (voiced by Isabella Rossellini) when his shell family left their home. With the help of a new tenant in the house ( Fleischer-Camp), Marcel goes searching for his family.
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family. A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about finding connection in the smallest corners. Featuring the voice of Jenny Slate as Marcel, co-starring Isabella Rossellini, Lesley Stahl, Rosa Salazar and Thomas Mann. An A24 release. (Dir. by Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2021, USA, 89 mins., Rated PG)
If you were poking around YouTube about a decade ago, you might have been witness to the viral introduction of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. The tiny shell with insightful observations, and questions, about our everyday existence evolved into a trio of stop-motion animated shorts created by director Dean Fleischer-Camp and writer Jenny Slate (who also voices Marcel). It took more than a decade for the pair, along with co-writers Nick Paley and Elisabeth Holm, to come up with a broader story that would bring their bitty big thinker onto the big screen for a worthy continuation of his adventures. What they came up with connects loneliness, grief, hope and Lesley Stahl.
Violence: A shell is injured off-screen and seen with a cracked shell. A shell dies off-screen and is buried. Sexual Content: None.Profanity: There are occasional uses of terms of deity.Alcohol / Drug Use: There is a brief reference to marijuana in an internet comment. 041b061a72