Movie #2184 ........................."Marcel the Shell with Shoes on" (Amazon Prime)

 Movie #2184 "Marcel the Shell with Shoes on"  (Amazon Prime)  This movie is nominated for an AA for full feature animation, and it was really cute -------but I felt it was long because  the cuteness for me ran out after a while.  Of course, time should be allotted to marvel at "how the heck is this being done? " and time to laugh at many of the scenes ---- but the theme is evident from the start (how we take the little things in life for granted?) and it moves from one situation to the next v-e-r-y-----s-l-o-w-l-y....... I'm not sure kids would have the stamina to follow it, but it would be interesting to know if they do.  Also, the sound was garbled  a bit --- not sure if on purpose or not --- Jenny Slate's voice as Marcel is taking on the sound of a very little object, so maybe that part was on purpose, but there were moments we wanted it to be clearer. The film  really is very clever, and I valued that a lot, but I just thought it would have been so much better if edited more and more compact in its presentation.  I'd give it 3.5 out of 5.

"MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON"        (amazon prime)   2021   PG    1 hr, 30 mins

Feature adaptation of the animated short film interviewing  a mollusk named Marcel.

P.S.  IMDB is saying here that it was a short film at the beginning --- hmmmm.

Director:  Dean Fleischer Camp

Writers:  Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley

Actors:  Jenny Slate (voice), Dean Fleischer Camp, Isabella Rossellini (voice)