i don't get it

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 2018)

I watched this movie recently and i don't get why so many film critics went mad about it. it wasn't anything special. i thought the movie was pretty mediocre. i get what del toro was going for: movie was suppose to be magic and absorbing with great characters and to tell that people are often monsters and monsters can be hot. all that is nice and swell but the movie isn't anyting smashing. at moments, del toro's attempts to make more out of his characters look stupid. after seeing all of his movies i don't think he has the strenght, or skill to make something truly great.
and sally hawkins, sally hawkins had a dozens of great and awarded performances but none of those were in multi-million hollywood productions instead they were in british cinema, so i guess that most of critics raving about her saw her for the first time so they went 'oooooooh-aaaaaaaaah'. sally hawkins is a great actress, and you noticed that just now?
i hope that this film doesn't rob dunkirk of it's well deserved awards. just because something is selling sugar doesn't mean it's better that the thing that doesn't.
in fact, i just came here to say that i think i now how del toro got idea for this film. i think he got it from la la land, and that this is, in fact, his version of that film. del toro, being self-proclaimed fan of monsters and monster films mashed this with la la land and scored with critics. only problem is, while la la land was a film really well made, this isn't.