Children's Movie with unnecessary violence and sex scenes

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2018)

A classic kids fable - girl meets fish-monster, girl loves fish-monster, bad guy hates fish-monster and chains him up, girl rescues fish-monster, girl and fish-monster live happily ever (after after it turns out fish-monster can survive gun shots but not extended periods out of water), bad guy meets grizzly end. There I just saved you two hours!
Indeed I was thinking as I was watching it that were it not for the sex scenes and graphic violence it would easily be suitable for my 10 year old.
Sure, it's nicely shot and there's some good references to early 60's culture and music but it's a bit unbelievable to imagine that a cleaner would have un restricted access to a top secret area and then when the monster goes missing not at all be suspected for the crime.
Some of the scenes and dialogue is garbled and perhaps I was missing the point of the Cadillac scene and the pie shop. It just seemed like 'filler' to me but maybe I missed the artistic depth or something? And what the hell was the dance scene all about?
Weird that bestiality is condoned to such a degree - did we really need to know how the monster's penis works? Couldn't their love just be 'implied'?
Not a terrible film, just a very odd one which had it not been framed as an 'adult' movie could easily just have been a kids film. Doesn't deserve any of the plaudits that's it's received as it isn't either original or well conceived.