A beautifully crafted and indescribably cute live action, stop-motion animated mockumentary about family and community with a poignant dose of existentialism. As an introvert, I feel so seen!
The combination of stop-motion and live action worked very well in this film, giving it both a sense of surreality and groundedness that helped to anchor the magical realism of the story and allowed the audience to accept the premise and integrate the artificiality of stop-motion into real life.
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, and co-written by Camp, Jenny Slate (who also voiced our titular Marcel) and Nick Paley, the film was a surprisingly moving depiction of life, death and community. It was also a great comedy, largely courtesy of Slate’s voice acting when Marcel delivered his wry commentaries about Camp’s life and simple, nonchalant - but incisively accurate - insights into life.
At a tight 90 minutes, Camp et al had effectively expanded their viral shorts into a beautiful and moving cinematic experience that may be more movingly affective for adults than children who may just be moved by the superficial primary story of community, and be amused by the cuteness of the animation. However, the deeper layers of existentialism, introversion, may allude them.
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