 Then we're checking out this review video for the shape of water Yeah, this is a movie that's been huge in in the You know media at the moment everyone's all about it because of the Academy Awards That's been nominated for and the fact that it only got a very limited release in just a few theaters And now all of a sudden because of all the Academy Award nominations. It's getting Pretty widespread release at this point. So anyway the shape of water This is no spoilers by the way whenever I do these movie reviews There will be no spoilers really And I am gonna give it like a star rating at the at the end that I do out of five which includes halves Anyway, so my feelings on the shape of water. First of all, I'm a fan of Guillermo del Toro always have been pretty much he tends to do Have like a certain gothic feel to his directing in the cinematography that he usually has for his films And I'm a fan of that. I like that kind of look that feel So I'm always kind of drawn to his films But also he usually has at least solid films one of the problems with Guillermo del Toro films in my opinion Has always been that they get overhyped people see them They don't expect anything out of the film because he's not like this blockbuster name He's not like a Spielberg or he's not like a you know a Christopher Nolan or anything like that He's Guillermo del Toro like people know his name and they know he's been around But if you ask your common person, how many Guillermo del Toro films have you seen a lot of them will be like Oh, I don't even know like they don't even necessarily know everything. He's done So that's one of the issues so people will see it no expectations and then be like, oh wow That was that was really good So that said do I think that the shape of water fell into the same situation where it got way overhyped Yes, I do it got way overhyped. Is it still a really a quite good film? I don't say really good, but it is still a quite good film. I did enjoy it I liked it quite a bit and that happens with a lot of his films Other ones I can think of that I felt the very same about a pans labyrinth that one got way overhyped was also a very good film as well as Crimson peak that was another one and even when Guillermo del Toro isn't like knocking it out of the park He's at least making films that are like good, you know, like the hellboy movies. They're not like phenomenal or anything But they're a good films and the one thing that's a constant throughout his stuff is his directing his directing is outstanding the cinematography is almost always outstanding and The music used in the films like I've never known anything to like mismatch or just you know, you hear it and you're just like so He does a solid solid job So that said for the shape of water itself The biggest strengths for this film are the cinematography the directing the music the acting the script itself is Not the strongest point of the film the script is Good the script is not great and I will say that if you take this exact same script You give it to a different director who will handle it in a different way It could be a bad film, honestly So I think all the other things with the film fell into place Well didn't really fall into place. They were intentionally put into place in order to make it a quite good film So that's you know, that's Guillermo del Toro He can take a just a good script and make the outcome of the film be more than the script is And I think that's what happened with the shape of water because when you look at the actual script There's not too much new stuff here. It's it is very much like, you know film like Beauty and the Beast You know, it's a love story. It's You know, that's not a spoiler like everyone knows that based off the trailer. So Yeah, so it's nothing like crazy new but with everything else that he does he makes it new in a way One of the interesting things about the film is it has a bit of a French film feel to it Which if people are familiar with French films, you'll know what I mean when you see the film Sally Hawkins, who's the leading lady in the film does a phenomenal job, especially because of the fact that she plays a character who cannot speak and It is much harder to act when you can't say anything because you need to be very good with your Expressions your hand gestures everything like that and she does a phenomenal job with that with that so She did an outstanding job all the other acting and it was really good as well Michael Shannon plays a very menacing individual. He's very good at that type of stuff and No Jenkins. Why am I blanking on his on his name right now? I actually have it right here. I had pulled it up on IMDB because I don't want to forget people's names And I forgot his name Richard Jenkins Richard Jenkins did a very good job as Sally Hawkins characters confidant like her only like real friend who kind of understands her and She's the only friend that really understands him at that point too. So The way he played his character He's always been a good direct or a good actor very solid good actor But he's never gotten an opportunity like this film to really shine and showcase himself as an actor And I'm happy to see that he finally got that so maybe he'll get like a little more due that he's Ben owed in my opinion so The creature itself I know people have seen like portions of the creature through the trailer I will say that in my opinion it it doesn't surprise me what it looks like because it's a very Guillermo del Toro type creature it looks like a cross between Abe sapien from the Hellboy movies and The creature from the Black Lagoon which doesn't really surprise me all that much because obviously Guillermo del Toro did Hellboy and was involved in the design of Abe sapien and then on the other hand he is a huge Universal monsters fan and like the old horror films. So he is a fan of creature from the Black Lagoon So you can see where his influences come from and that leaves me do another thing that I really really love about Guillermo del Toro Is he's very very committed to using practical effects and films for me when there's a lot of CGI Things don't look right in certain situations if you're using CGI and like quick shots Where people don't have to the can't like take the time to like affix their eyes on whatever is in front of them Then usually it'll be pretty fine But when you're doing it for an extended period of time sometimes the CGI can just look weird and just not that good but he gets around this obviously by Taking the harder road, which is doing practical effects so his dedication to practical effects always amazes me and his ability to be involved with the creature design in a lot of stuff that he does like in the Hellboy films He does a lot of creature design They look great like he comes up with some very awesome things in his brain And I know I think he does like sketches to like this is what I'm interested in so yeah, so that but overall Like I was saying like the story the story is not the strongest part of it Everything else is strong super super strong actually and that's the reason that it it comes out to be a real You know quite good film like I said so that said out of five stars I would give this a four star rating that is nice. Obviously. It's well above half 2.5 being half But I just don't feel like it's quite at that point where he'd get the four and a half or get the five star And like I said, I do feel like it's a little bit overhyped at this point Actually, maybe a little bit more than a little bit overhyped I feel like it's kind of a film that people who don't usually watch Smaller budget films or more indie films or more like independent films like happen to see it and be like oh my gosh Oh, that's amazing. I didn't know that there were films with original ideas out there Which actually it's not even like super original, but there there's some real original stuff in there including what Guillermo del Toro likes to do which is set a lot of His films in the settings of like conflict times like this one's kind of done in the United States during the Cold War He likes to do those types of settings Which always is interesting for me. So at any rate, that's kind of my review of this Let me know if there's anything that you think I missed on it. You can you know put some comments down there I'd like to interact about the film whatever everyone else thought of it Maybe out of people out there thought it totally sucked and I'd be totally Open to hearing what you have to say about it or maybe people out there were like no you're wrong It was like unbelievable one of the best movies ever You know say that as well, but if you could also give me likes, you know subscribe would be awesome And if this this video does well enough I may consider doing more of these movie reviews and going out to the theater and intentionally just going to see Movies just to do reviews on so for that reason people could also make requests and I could see if I can make that happen in that case But yeah, I want to keep these videos like You know under 10 minutes if possible maybe even shorter if possible in the future But anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out I do recommend the shape of water go ahead and see it because you can see it at the moment and until next time Keep it brutal