So, basically, I’m obsessed with Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
I’ve been watching him every morning with breakfast, and then usually once or twice throughout the day. This hasn’t happened since I was 7 and got a VHS copy of The Little Mermaid for my birthday.
It’s not that Marcel is visually cute. Marcel is not cute. Marcel, if anything, is weird-looking. It’s not that his mouth disappears when he’s not talking or that he hang glides on a Dorito. No. The beauty of Marcel is the tiny, little voice; so expressive and vulnerable, yet so self-possessed.
“I like myself and I have a lot of other great qualities, as well,” says Marcel the shell.
This little stop motion video by Dean Fleischer-Camp is proof that you don’t need a big budget to make something creative and absolutely hilarious.
Screengrab via Vimeo.