REVIEW: 'The Shape of Water'

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4.5 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘The Shape of Water’ (starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon and Richard Jenkins) is directed by Guillermo del Toro and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Hawkins), Best Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer), Best Supporting Actor (Jenkins), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and more.

Synopsis:

"Elisa is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever when she discovers the lab's classified secret -- a mysterious, scaled creature from South America that lives in a water tank. As Elisa develops a unique bond with her new friend, she soon learns that its fate and very survival lies in the hands of a hostile government agent and a marine biologist."

We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories:

Did we like it?
How did everyone look?
Will we steal stuff from it?
Is it problematic?

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0:00.0	Did we like it?
0:04.4	And how did everyone look?
0:08.7	Are we stealing stuff from it?
0:11.0	Is it problematic?
0:12.5	It's brunch.
0:13.5	Movie reviews.
0:15.1	The shape of water is about a fish thing with no voice trying to fuck someone on land.
0:24.4	Liked it better the first time when it was called Little Mermaid.
0:28.8	I just thought of that right now.
0:32.1	That's pretty good.
0:33.2	Yeah.
0:33.4	I liked it.
0:33.9	But that is like, that is exactly what it's about.
0:35.7	Oh yeah.
0:36.0	And no, it's, it's equally about a person on land trying to fuck a fish thing with no voice.
0:42.2	But a dick.
0:42.8	But a dick.
0:43.7	And there's a, there's a very, very tasteful dick revelation scene where it's kind of, where, so Sally Hawkins plays a mute who begins to smash a weird kind of fishman,
1:00.5	and we learn that mutes, you know the old adage about girls always talk and chop with their lady friends.
1:07.3	You know, they discuss everything.
1:09.0	Even the mutes.
1:10.2	Because first thing she's like, she signs to her, to Octavia Spencer, like, let me tell you about this dick. And then she like, she explains where, like, how the dick came about. How the dick was presented. I still really wasn't completely sure how that worked. She made it seem like. It seemed like it was like a bed like that goes up into the wall. Yes, exactly.
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