Peter Charney’s review published on Letterboxd:
Completing a feature-length stop-motion animated film is always a remarkable feat, one well worth the effort for the rigorously crafted quality and precise personal touch it brings to storytelling. Adam Elliot's Memoir of a Snail embodies this tactile authenticity, capturing a world-weary tone in a somber landscape of faded dreams, lost connections, and fleeting joys. His characters express emotion through the shape and molding of their forms, inhabiting a bleakly colored physical world filled with claustrophobic clutter and a pervading sense of confinement.
Narratively, the film is one of the more ponderous examples of the animated form, unfolding almost entirely through reflection—a spoken memoir paired with accompanying imagery. While this approach ultimately highlights the screenplay’s themes in hindsight, it occasionally renders the film inactive in its introspection. Nevertheless, Elliot’s quirky details and aphoristic dialogue feel well-earned, deepening the thoughtful, peculiar world he miraculously constructs.
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