Indeed, Marcel — you know, the Shell, With Shoes On — may act all innocent and adorable, but there's pain there too. Most of the film involves him appreciating the small pleasures in life ...

It’s called Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been, and we couldn’t be more excited to flip through it when it hits the shelves Oct. 21.

In the end, the marriage of Marcel's creators didn't survive. But their collaboration opens in theaters on Friday: a movie about a bald, armless, one-eyed shell on a quest to find his family.

A reopened Marcel’s reminds me that fine dining, especially now, is about more than food November 6, 2020 More than 4 years ago ...

When director Dean Fleischer Camp and star Jenny Slate wrote and produced their viral 2010 short film “ Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” they created the title character (voiced by Slate) as ...

Marcel’s smallness and cuteness don’t define him, in other words. If anything, the narrative hinges on his tendency to deliver tidy conclusions, a quality he thinks of as a strength.

To that end, Lepore and the animation crew first had to create a puppet of Marcel suitable to make multiple copies of. For the short films, Camp used an actual shell, but since carapaces vary in ...

Marcel first appeared in the viral short film of the same name that Slate and Camp wrote and produced in 2010, when they were a couple. (The pair divorced in 2016 — uncannily, not until after ...

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” builds on its predecessors to intermittently productive effect. Once again, Marcel is pulling on lint, making a bed of bread and living in a human house, a wee ...

The film is based on the character of Marcel, who was created by Slate and director Dean Fleischer Camp for a digital short back in 2010. Slate said she had no idea Marcel would garner this much ...

When the director Dean Fleischer Camp and his co-writer and star Jenny Slate made their first short of “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” in 2010, they couldn’t have imagined its impact: more ...

How ‘Marcel the Shell’ went from viral sensation to 2022’s most adorable movie star Dean Fleischer Camp, director for “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” holds Marcel in his hands.