Not since the original “Toy Story” has a movie found such magic in the mundane as Dean Fleischer Camp’s “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.” This feature-length adaptation of the popular YouTube short series is more than just storytelling – it’s a new way of experiencing the world around us. The film discovers compassion and caring hidden amidst the clutter of everyday life rather than just chaos. “I don’t do the clock the way you guys do the clock,” humbly observes Marcel, and the film invests the time to train its audience to reset their understanding of time and space to mirror its protagonist’s.

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Eons ago, back in 2010, Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp‘s stop-motion short “Marcel The Shell With Shoes On” launched Slate’s showbiz career. The short won awards at AFI FEST 2010, was an official selection at Sundance 2011, and, well, the rest is history. Slate And Fleischer-Camp moved to LA, got married, and Slate’s career took off.

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Given that the cute three-minute video was the couple’s catapult to success, one would think that a full-length “Marcel” movie would have occurred almost a decade ago.

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