Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Is a Poignant Summertime Surprise

One might approach Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, a feature-length adaptation (in limited release June 24) of a handful of popular videos and a subsequent book from over a decade ago, a bit warily. What worked so well in small format—Jenny Slate’s sweetly rasping voice as the titular stop-motion creature, surrounded by an olio of found objects put to inventive new use—could become cloying when stretched out to 90 minutes. And anyway, hasn’t Marcel’s era passed? Gone are the days when bits of whimsy were the bright side of the Internet’s main currency. Imagine something so quaint going viral… Read Full Article