Fish loves woman, but where is the frog!?

Rating: 4/10 (5 March 2018)

Shape of Water gets a lot of praise and maybe some Oscars but for sure not because of inventive and creative storytelling or cinematography but because - it got a "good" message.
Objectively this movie is a total boring affair: the love story is forced and boring, the villains are boring, the heroes are boring, the pace of the story, the visuals - all just boring.
I don't mind a storytelling that gets my neurons exploding, but this one is really just some "p.c.-crap" in disguise. Del Toro once showed that he can do and tell us outstanding stuff (Pan's Labyrinth, of course), but in that movie he left the conclusions to the audience, now he is just screaming at us, what is good and what is bad. His characters are slapstick not real people.
Pacific Rim was imo one step into the direction of going into the lower planes of Hollywood blockbuster movie-making like Emmerich and the like. The Shape of Water is another. Hollywood spoiled another director.
The Shape is not a total disaster but - nothing really good or special.