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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