"Welcome to Marwen" is about a grown man who plays with toys. That's what it looks like Mark Hogancamp is doing, anyway. Or maybe Jessica Rabbit is a better reference, since this is a movie by Robert Zemeckis, who puts some of his longstanding preoccupations on vivid, sometimes baffling.
Welcome To Marwen movie reviews & Metacritic score: When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) and wipes away all memories, no one expe. But Welcome to Marwen is such a puzzling experience that all evidence points to the contrary. I wanted to see the Welcome to Marwen advertised by the second trailer.
Instead I saw the kind of movie Michael Scott would write if he wanted to write a feel-good story. Welcome to Marwen, the semi-fictionalized, Hollywood-driven retelling of the tale from filmmaker Robert Instead, it's a major missed opportunity. Welcome to Marwen isn't hack work; there are ideas buried beneath its high-gloss surface and relentless uplift. Welcome to Marwen Review: Zemeckis Gets Lost in the Uncanny Valley Again. Welcome to Marwen is an ambitious, but miscalculated and otherwise misguided attempt to blend effects-driven filmmaking with grounded storytelling. In "Welcome to Marwen," the filmmakers let the fictional Hogancamp have his coffin nails too, but you never see Carell inhale.
Trailer Welcome to Marwen
That's emblematic of the entirety of this sentimental movie. As for those special effects, they are vivid, colorful, convincing. They aren't quite so good that you don't notice the WWII.
Read Common Sense Media's Welcome to Marwen review, age rating, and parents guide. The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Welcome to Marwen Is a Totally Confounding Movie. That movie would tell us more about the artist, sure, but it would also perhaps have a chance to be about more than Mark Hogancamp's specific circumstance — about the violence and hang-ups and trauma of the world that. "Welcome to Marwen" is a misjudgment only a first-rate filmmaker could make.