What's Missing?

Rating: 7/10 (26 December 2018)

I've watched the movie twice. I bought it because I love Guillermo del Toro. I was born in the 1960s and grew up on Frankenstein, "Young Frankenstien" and Creature Double Feature. I wanted to love this movie, I really did, but I only liked it. It just felt the whole time that it was missing something but you can't tell what. It was more cartooney than campy, the relationships seem two dimensional and there's not enough intensity. I don't know, maybe Hellboy and Pan's Labrynth just set the bar too high.