Guillermo del Toro is a cool director. I loved Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Blade II. I'm glad he won his Oscar but like the Academy always does; they give it to the wrong movie and the wrong person. The movie is beautiful to look at and the music from Alexandre Desplat is one of the most enchanting musical scores I've ever heard since Alan Menken's Beauty and the Beast. But the premise is basic and rips off an obvious movie, Splash. Does this sound familiar? A human being falls in love with a fish creature, they run away from government and at the end, they kiss and the human is able to breath underwater. Guess James Cameron is not the only director accused of plagiarism. I can see why the film got so many lawsuits. The film's not wholly original but it doesn't take away that Guillermo del Toro is an imaginative director. Though he doesn't deserve his Oscars for this and Pinocchio. Especially when he won over better films that have become modern classics; Get Out and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. I respect the Academy giving awards to other races and add diversity but could have they given the award to more deserving people like Jordan Peele? I still don't think Chloe Zhao deserves her award for the snoozefest, Nomadland, In conclusion, The Shape of Water is pretty to look at but the story borrows from better movies and has too many nauseating and gruesome scenes. It's not as good as Guillermo's other movies like Pan's Labyrinth.
Review of The Shape of Water
