The Shape of Water

2017

Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller

476
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 72%
IMDb Rating 7.3 10 427163

Plot summary



March 01, 2018 at 06:28 PM

Director

Guillermo del Toro

Top cast

Michael Shannon as Richard Strickland
Michael Stuhlbarg as Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Guillermo del Toro as Amphibian Man
Doug Jones as Amphibian Man
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
1.11 GB
1280*682
English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
P/S 2 / 29
2.06 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
P/S 10 / 71
1.11 GB
1280*688
English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
P/S 1 / 5
2.06 GB
1904*1024
English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
P/S 0 / 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by pjkblue-35926 1 / 10

JUST BAD

Guillermo del Toro has been unique in many of his films as a director or producer. He has a good feel for the weird, strange and horrific... BUT WTF was this???

Is it a spoof? Is it a black comedy? Are we supposed to take it as a sci-fi "B" movie? A two hour mess as I was waiting for del Toro to make this worthy.

Never happened.

The premise started off interesting, but when the "relationship" between the creature and Elisa was "jump started" and that's when I knew it was all downhill after that.

There wasn't a hint of mystery about the creature to begin with. Characters were in the scenes but in actuality, who cares about any of them? The "artist friend" Giles, is played absolutely dull and limp by Richard Jenkins and is a total drag and the tiny sub-plot of him losing a job is meaningless. I give Michael Shannon some credit for being such a nasty, evil character; Octavia Spencer was good as a supporting figure (seen her in better roles). The entire fantasy premise had zero sense of any believability. You can fill up an entire bathroom with water?? LOL!!

She finds him in the movie theater standing there watching the film? You knew he was going to kill/eat the cat; the espionage/cold war nonsense was foolish; and are those really tiny, fiber-optic lights on the creature? They look like the type you'd use on a Christmas tree. The entire nonsense with the diner scenes were not necessary at all.

Yes, I'm ranting. The movie was just bad...just plain bad.

If Elisa was supposed to be another "creature" somehow rescued, I could see that potential story used better. I can't go on anymore because there are so many discrepancies, just stupid scenes that have this movie becoming a junior-high farce.

With a budget of about 20-million dollars, I expect a helluva lot more from del Toro than this sewage.

Reviewed by siderite 6 / 10

The hype of water

The film starts with an interesting premise: during the Cold War era, a US government research center has captured a strange amphibious creature and the protagonist is a mute cleaning lady. From the beginning the story overflows with symbols if intolerance: towards women, towards handicapped people, black people, amphibious people, immigrants, gays, old people, and so on and so on. It's like it's trying to check all the boxes, see how many it gets in a single row. But while it does this, the story itself just stalls. This is a two hour long movie in which nothing much happens. It shows intolerance, but doesn't go anywhere with it. Yes, we know people are assholes and that during that era, they were slightly worse than now. It does nothing for the plot, which is predictable and boring.

The bad man is reminiscent of Pan's Labyrinth villain and the main character a girl with an active imagination, but it is way slower and more poorly executed than Pan's. It is clearly a worse movie than that was. To put it mildly, I am at a loss for why this film won Best Picture. It was visually interesting, but you couldn't take it seriously. It went from metaphor to reality with no regard to the previous context. A villain that seemed to not have a purpose other than being obtuse and evil, a woman who after learning that the creature has bit two fingers off a man's hand goes near it and offers it food from her own hand, a black best friend who's only role is to gossip about her irrelevant husband, some Russian spies that seem more interested in food than in spying, the list goes on and on. It's not like the actors didn't do a good job, it's not that the direction or the sets were faulty, but the story itself was nothing more than a long slow cliche.

Reviewed by grantss 6 / 10

Okay, but hardly Oscar-worthy

It is the mid-1960s. Elisa is mute, and a cleaner at a US government experiment facility. Her life is quite mundane and unfulfilled. Then the facility starts on a new project: the US government has captured a man-fish hybrid in South America and now they are seeing if the creature's unique physiology could have some uses for humans, especially for astronauts. Elisa becomes attached to the creature.

The winner of Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars, though difficult to see why. A pretty basic movie - a linear romantic drama with one-dimensional characters, cartoonish, badness-laid-on-so-thick-it's-laughable villains, conventional plot development and a fairly predictable ending. It's not that profound or original in its themes or development (unless the viewer has only seen a handful of movies in their life) - quite dumbed-down (though that might be more a reflection of modern audiences than anything else). If it wasn't for the excellent CGI, the sentimentality, the slickness of the plot development and some of the performances it would be just another B-grade creature feature.

Part of the problem is that director Guillermo del Toro tries to steer a path between fairy tale and gritty drama, and thus ends up with something that is tonally jarring and inconsistent. The movie from the start has a light, airy feel, the ideal set up for a sweet, all-ages drama. There's even some funny moments to help this along. Yet, interspersed with the lightness are several adult-orientated scenes. Even as the movie becomes darker, bloodier and grittier, del Toro still tries to cling to the fairy tale side.

Made as a plain fairy tale-like drama, suitable for all ages, this would have worked a whole lot better.

Not that it's that bad though. The movie moves at a decent pace and is quite entertaining. There is a decent level of intrigue and tension and Sally Hawkins puts in a great performance as Elisa.

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90 Comments

Jonatan93 profile
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Jonatan93 October 07, 2022 at 08:13 pm

4K Blu-ray...

SahibDM profile
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SahibDM September 16, 2022 at 06:42 pm

Awesome movie. I love this beautiful actress Lauren Lee Smith.

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ykavitama April 29, 2022 at 02:23 am

1080 is completely empty, no video !

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JenniferMacahia18 March 03, 2021 at 01:52 pm

where is subtitle?

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ask2mark January 25, 2021 at 05:46 pm

where's the subtitle?

jywn profile
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jywn August 02, 2020 at 09:04 pm

note to self, never a good idea to read comments

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supermangoestor February 14, 2020 at 03:49 pm

Overrated

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Omer95 September 01, 2019 at 02:05 am

i was looking at my tablet. Everything is fine, thank you yts

sanaf profile
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sanaf August 14, 2019 at 12:02 pm

Beautiful film..a cinemastic masterpiece from del toro..

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KaReeMdk1998 July 29, 2019 at 05:22 am

Good

sumonsarker profile
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sumonsarker July 09, 2019 at 07:40 pm

not very good

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aterciopelado March 05, 2019 at 04:15 pm

gracias por la película, simplemente increible. Buenas actuaciones, montaje y la historia muy hermosa.

unspoken profile
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unspoken October 18, 2018 at 09:32 pm

Blah and yuck. Punctuated [ !!!!!!!!!!! ] the myriad reasons I loathe and deeply distrust pro 'critics' and only moderately trust general public opinions. What a wretched waste of bloody time this was!!! I am, however, grateful as always that YTS provides!!! You're the best!

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shekar4evr October 16, 2018 at 08:40 pm

Thank you

intouchable profile
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intouchable August 18, 2018 at 05:02 pm

people just over-rated this movie. In my point of view his movie is not worth it. I was expecting something better.

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steveGotJobs July 28, 2018 at 04:35 pm

Thanks a lot for the movies Freeman. Can I ask that you add age restriction indicators. There are WAY TOO MANY movies here that show adultery or genitalia. You've gotta keep the little ones in mind. Regardless, thanks for everything YTS. You guys are the best. HANDS DOWN!

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Mr_Synyster July 25, 2018 at 10:35 pm

cus ùine a tha daoine ag iarraidh gum bi stiùiriche a 'cumail ri cruth a tha iad gan cleachdadh gus seo a dhèanamh airson stagnation, agus filmichean a tha sin fàs ro fhurasta airson aithneachadh le. Dh'atharraich GDT e leis an fhear seo. Mar sin, airson faicinn mar "Lady F's Fish" chan eil e cho mòr air sgàth cho math 'sa tha e beachd pearsanta, cumaibh e mar sin.

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rafaelsanchez28 June 08, 2018 at 11:10 pm

spanish subtitles please please

kitsune profile
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kitsune May 17, 2018 at 11:00 pm

We have "The Shape of the Voice" (anime movie) We have "The Shape of You" (Ed Sheeran) Now This... LOL but this movie is good though

takumie profile
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takumie April 23, 2018 at 01:32 pm

where is the torrent link?

luxxy profile
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luxxy March 27, 2018 at 02:53 am

Overrated movie... Just good and a bit boring. Thanks anyway YTS!

argidotakias profile
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argidotakias March 24, 2018 at 05:47 pm

THANKS

dieginho997 profile
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dieginho997 March 09, 2018 at 03:02 am

spanish subtitles

stupidrandomguy profile
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stupidrandomguy March 08, 2018 at 08:29 pm

thx you're my hero

ovic_volg profile
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ovic_volg March 06, 2018 at 01:49 pm

a shitty movie

vixovixie profile
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vixovixie March 06, 2018 at 11:00 am

why people having troubles with subtitles?? you can easy find subtitle in yify subtitle site or subscene.

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jarod_xg March 06, 2018 at 07:54 am

the 720p.WEB and 1080p.WEB are better the the BluRay because it already has hardcoded english subs for sign language and russian. very good!

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amadorandrade March 06, 2018 at 06:19 am

spanish subtitles PLEASE!!!!!

melome profile
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melome March 06, 2018 at 04:32 am

Thanks!

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salchichon March 06, 2018 at 01:33 am

what happened to the subtitles