Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

When Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer Camp first started work on the short Marcel the Shell with Shoes On they were an item. By the time this feature-length fourth iteration of Marcel’s adventures arrived on the screens in 2021 they were not. Why the film has themes of break-up, heartbreak and the power of relationships is anyone’s guess – insert your own speculative gloss here. It doesn’t need a backstory of personal woe to make it in the harsh everyday world. It’s the perfectly charming, sweet, sad story of – borrowing Wikipedia’s unbeatable description – “an anthropomorphic seashell outfitted with a single googly eye and a pair of miniature shoes”. Slate voices one-inch-high … Read more