The news is bad. The world feels too hot or too cold. And maybe the midterm elections didn't go your way.
It's going to be OK. "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" is the tonic we all need.
"Sweet" makes it sound too simple; there's a genuine positive vibe to the animated feature, but it also treats its tiny, tiny stop-motion subjects — "shells," not snails, by the way — with tender sincerity. There's a story in the fake documentary (director and co-writer Dean Fleischer Camp tellingly dislikes the term "mockumentary") but the film isn't plot-driven. There's plenty of struggle for the titular, striving shell, but there's no antagonist.
