And now, the feature distributed by A24, which has turned out wonderfully and, like Marcel, is just the right size.When newcomers learn that Marcel and his movie are “sweet” — that’s the adjective I heard spoken most frequently, on the way out of a recent preview screening — it’ll likely mean more customers for “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” has the misfortune to compete against in theaters. So be it.
Marcel sleeps in his “breadroom,” which is a bedroom with a bed made out of two slices of bread. Nana Connie tends a huge garden, pops popcorn kernels with a magnifying glass and, as the narrative proceeds, copes with forgetfulness and Alzheimer’s-like symptoms. That description makes the movie sound right next door, in story terms, to “Finding Nemo” or “Finding Dory.” A24′s uncharacteristically hard-sell a pushier, grabbier experience than Fleischer-Camp and Slate are after. The tone and texture of the film itself are light, deft and deadpan. There’s also a plaintive emotional pull to Marcel’s circumstances, marked as they are by the loss he has experienced and the loss he’s afraid of enduring with his ailing grandmother.
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