Marcel The Shell With Shoes On hits the road to find his family in the movie’s trailer
The feature film based on Jenny Slate's viral shorts arrives on June 24
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It feels like forever ago since the Marcel The Shell With Shoes On feature film was announced. Jenny Slate first announced in 2014 that she and Marcel The Shell co-creator Dean Fleischer-Camp were planning a movie based on the three-part shorts that went viral on YouTube. Eight years later, we finally have a trailer for it.
The A24 movie is filmed as a mockumentary, just like the YouTube shorts, and it re-introduces Marcel. In the trailer, Marcel (Slate) explains to Fleischer-Camp (who’s acting as “documentarian”) that it “takes at least 20 shells to have a community.” But he doesn’t have that; instead, he lives solitarily with his grandma, Nana Connie (Isabella Rossellini).
Marcel seems happy enough with the company of Nana Connie (they spend their days watching 60 Minutes) but he’s missing the other shells. “Sometimes I find my mind wandering… thinking, ‘What would my family think?’ Do you think they could be out there?,” he asks.
Marcel decides—with the encouragement of Nana Connie—that he’s embarking on an adventure in search of his family. But first he tries to look for help online, hosting a livestream asking if anyone has information on his lost loved ones. He eventually hits the road, and his quest manages to get the attention of 60 Minutes host Lesley Stahl, who ends up interviewing him.
Besides Slate, Fleishcher-Camp, and Rossellini, the movie also features supporting roles from Rosa Salazar and Thomas Mann. As seen in the trailer, Conan O’Brien and Brian Williams also make cameos.
The feature film was written by Slate, Fleishman-Camp, and Nick Paley, and is directed by Fleishman-Camp. It first premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2021 and was also screened recently at SXSW. Its theatrical release is coming up this summer on June 24.
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*yawn*
Wake up sleepyhead, the Marcel the shell with shoes on trailer just dropped
First of all, let me be the first to say … first.
The trailer carries the same comic but pensive tone as the shorts. I hope this is different than the usual ROAD TRIP! Hijinks.
There was once a time when I would just see about anything produced by A24 and it would always be brilliant. Now it seems like they produce pretty much anything.
jk this looks awesome
It feels like the whole thing started with someone mispronouncing “Marcel” as “Marshell” and just kept snowballing from there.I’m loving it.
Does it always look like a small squashed penis with shoes and an eye attached to its side, or is it just the header image?
I think it’s just…you
Jenny Slate? Phil Collins’ Take Me Home?! Lesley Stahl’s impeccable comic timing?!?! STOOOOPP!! It’s been such a looong wait.
*sing*
“Shoe, shoe, shoesfershells!”
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is pretty much the best thing that Jenny Slate has done in her career. I’m glad to see a full length film of it realized.
I wonder how much extra time it took in development to have two exes have to work on the project together.
Shells with shoes? Big deal.
This film is well, quite problematic in nature, you silly goose.