Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Directed by:
Dean Fleischer-CampComposer:
Rich VreelandCast:
Jenny Slate, Isabella Rossellini, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Thomas Mann, Rosa Salazar, Samuel Painter, Sarah ThyrePlots(1)
When struggling filmmaker Dean (Dean Fleischer Camp) moves into an Airbnb, he quickly discovers that he is not alone. Marcel (Jenny Slate), an adorable one-inch-tall shell, already lives there with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, Marcel and Connie live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. Taken with his unlikely new friend, Dean starts filming Marcel and his grandmother, igniting a meteoric rise to internet fame that changes their lives forever. But will Marcel’s newfound sense of possibility and a throng of superfans be enough to track down his long-lost family? (Universal Pictures UK)
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Tear-jerker of the year. The dubious nicecore category got its notional offshoot: the cutementary. This mix of fictional documentary, an endearing narrative about overcoming fear and a treatise on the absurdities and insignificance of online fame stands entirely on the shoulders of the original title character. Marcel, who’s a little shell with shoes, is given life and a soul by the brilliant stop-motion animation, executed with an almost obsessive focus on the bizarre details.
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