Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) is a tender animated comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Marcel is a one-inch seashell in tiny shoes, with a single googly eye and the wise, reedy voice of Jenny Slate.

He used to belong to a whole bustling community of shells. Now it's just Marcel and his grandmother Connie, voiced by Isabella Rossellini, rattling around an empty house that gets rented out on Airbnb. When a documentary filmmaker — director Dean Fleischer Camp, playing a version of himself — moves in and starts posting short videos about Marcel, the clips go viral. Sudden fame brings strangers, fresh dangers, and a real shot at tracking down the family Marcel lost.

Shot in stop-motion against live-action sets, in mockumentary style, it grew out of a beloved web series from the early 2010s. The Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature was no fluke. The film stays small and quiet while talking about loneliness, grief and nerve — gentle enough for kids, sharp enough for the adults watching with them. Stream Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) online on iFILM.