I expected much, much more

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2018)

The movie isn't bad, that's for sure. I thoroughly enjoyed this period piece, the costumes, the energy of the 20th century, the music (although, I have to say, music kind of reminded me more of some French art movie, something like Amelie or even Ratatouille, rather than anything set in America).
I watched it after it was awarded the best picture this year, and I have to say, my expectations were high, really high considering it rocked this year's Academy Awards. I love Del Toro, I will always love him, but was this movie Oscar-worthy? I can't tell. Maybe not..
Richard Jenkins shines, as always. He is slowly becoming one of my favorite actors in Hollywood. Can't remember a role he's played in the last five years in which he wasn't brilliant. Even in Cabin in the Woods.
I don't know, I can't really put my finger on what it exactly was about this movie that I found repelling and not entirely satisfactory. I guess I wish there hasn't been a human-fish sexual encounter, it made it a bit awkward. But the scene when they do it, and Elisa fills the whole bathroom with water to the point of leaking is mesmerizing. I always wanted to do that. Fill my bathroom up with water, not have sex with a humanoid fish-god.