The stop motion film that almost snatched the Oscar from Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ is already on Movistar+, and it has the most adorable character you can imagine

The stop motion film that almost snatched the Oscar from Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ is already on Movistar+, and it has the most adorable character you can imagine

Meet Marcel, the most huggable and tender character who almost gave a surprise at the Oscars.

    Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ won the 2023 Oscar for Best Animated Film at the last Academy Awards gala fighting against Pixar (‘Red’), Dreamworks (‘Puss in Boots; The Last Wish’) and Netflix (‘The Sea Monster’) but, in addition to all of them, Among the best animated films of the year, a false budget documentary distributed by A24 slipped in, which has taken more than a year to reach our country and which you can now enjoy on Movistar+. She has arrived later than expected, but the wait has been worth it.

    ‘Marcel, the shell with shoes’, stop-motion for the whole family

    Marcel (Jenny Slate) is a shell in shoes. So how it sounds. The title doesn’t lie. He is one inch tall (2.5 cm), has one eye and a childish voice.. And he’s the subject of Dean’s (Dean Fleischer-Camp, the director of the upcoming live-action remake of ‘Lilo and Stitch’) home documentary, which turns his life story into a viral internet phenomenon.

    For Marcel, the house he lives in is all he knows. A vast landscape that offers him everything he needs, but is also fraught with danger and adventure. His life was happy, living in a bustling shell community, but after the other shells are accidentally driven away from the house, Marcel is left alone with Nana Connie (Isabella Rossellini).an old snail who likes gardening, the television program ’60 Minutos’ (a kind of American version of the mythical ‘Who knows where’ by Paco Lobatón) and insects.

    The house turns out to be an Airbnb rented by Dean, who upon noticing the presence of the talking shells decides to make a documentary about Marcel and help him in the search to find his family.

    Marcel the shell with shoes

    The film is, therefore, in documentary format and shows us Marcel’s day-to-day life. We are going to reveal a little more about his plot, but we are going to dwell on his protagonist and highlight why Marcel is the most adorable and authentic character to ever hit our screens in the last times.

    Everything that ‘Marcel, the shell with shoes’ teaches us about life

    Marcel may be a tiny shell who has never left home, but we have a lot to learn from him (or her?).

    His childish innocence and curiosity is complemented by his lack of filters and his overwhelming sincerity. Marcel isn’t afraid to come off naturalto learn new things by asking about everything that surprises you, no matter how obvious it may seem and to share your feelings with the people around you.

    His vision of the world shows that many of our most pressing problems are actually bullshitas well as our social behavior (very revealing the scene in which he lashes out at the messages of “peace and love” of his followers on social networks without offering any real help. “Peace? Do they really have to make it clear that they are in favor of peace?“).

    Marcel the shell with shoes

    Marcel has lost his entire family, but his optimism and courage have made him move forward and has found ways to continue with his life adapting, together with his Nana, his routine. She is not afraid to say what she thinks and to justify her feelings with logic and dialogue, and she is capable of putting the health and well-being of others before her own dreams. And also sing.

    ‘Marcel, the shell with shoes’ deals, like ‘Pinocchio’, with themes such as death, the loss of loved ones, the feeling of belonging to a family, loneliness and the empty temptations of the modern world and entertainment. But unlike the darker, more adult tone of the Guillermo del Toro film, ‘Marcel’ is all love, optimism and generosity. Everything we need today. And that’s why you can’t miss it.

    Source: Fotogramas

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