Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: If Marcel the Shell With Shoes On doesn’t leave you with a lovely smile as you walk out of the after, something must be wrong with your soul because it’s one of those films that makes you appreciate the smallest moments of life.
- [New] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A heartwarming, hilarious, poignant, and life-affirming story about a mystical shell.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Marcel’s remembrance of Mrs. Kim alone is worth the price of admission, a single sentence that would have had me blowing milk out of my nose had I been drinking any at the time.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The chronicle evokes a precious mood. Observations sprinkled throughout the film are like powdered sugar on a stack of pancakes covered in syrup.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s an utterly charming, (mostly) stop-motion adventure of the soul with genuine laugh-out-loud moments and heartwarming drama to keep us invested in moments big and small.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ will invariably enchant audiences, regardless of whether they are already familiar with the one-inch talking shell or not. Director Dean Fleischer-Camp and co-writer Jenny Slate have created an animated delight with heart-on-its-sleeve pathos and plenty of deeply-felt laughs.
- Josh Thayer (formerly Taylor) @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: It’s the eye that got me. That tiny googly eye that sits in the hole on his right side – our left – is impossibly expressive. It telegraphs an enormous amount of emotional information despite its size.
