Stereotypical, cliched and outrageous to a fault

Rating: 4/10 (5 March 2018)

The Shape of Water is, by all means, a beautiful film to look at. The set, art and photography are all award-worthy, but there's little else that is. I I feel like this film is throwing the political ideology of the liberal-left in my face and demanding that I too must believe that white, heterosexual men are all evil racist misogynistic homophobic a-holes...Ok, but other than the obvious political statement this film regurgitates distastefully, it is also supposed to be a love story, and I don't believe it, or feel any emotion other than empathy for our monster. I certainly don't understand why the sex with a monster was even written in the screenplay other than to try to say sex with different species of animals is groovy? The Shape of Water just came across as pushy, full of itself and a little weird, in a bad way. I guess this films not-to-subtile undertones skip hand-in-hand with Hollywood's modern mantra.