Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel is a small shell who lives with his grandmother Connie in a house they share with a pet ball of lint named Alan. The two are the only survivors of a community of shells that disappeared under circumstances they never learned. When a documentary filmmaker staying in the house notices them, he begins filming their daily life, and the short video he posts online turns Marcel into an unlikely internet celebrity. The attention brings both new opportunities and new pressures, and with it a reason to search for the family he lost.

The film is a stop-motion and live-action hybrid directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, who wrote the screenplay with Jenny Slate and Nick Paley. Slate voices Marcel, Isabella Rossellini voices Connie, and Camp appears as the filmmaker. It was Camp's first feature, followed later by Lilo & Stitch.

Made on a modest budget, the film returned only slightly more at the worldwide box office, though it found a wide audience afterward. On IMDb it holds a 7.6 rating from roughly 34,000 votes, and on TMDB a matching 7.6 from a much smaller number of votes, while critics rated it noticeably higher at 8.3 across nearly 200 reviews.