My only compliment is visually it looked good at times but that's it. Really hard to get into the story and no characters to really cheer for. Including Elisa. I'd argue it's a ridiculous story to enjoy. To moronic to genuinely get into.

Now I have to admit I have a bias against Del Toro as I feel he ranks as one of the more overrated directors out there. Pacific Rim has the dumbest dialogue but looks great, Pan's Labrynth wasn't near as compelling as people wanted it to be but did have some cool set design, but I do like the Hellboy movies but mostly because they are visually sweet (picking up a theme here?).

But The Shape of Water doesn't fly as Academy material as it's mostly going through absurd motions. It was hard to care about what happened next. Not sure how\when I was supposed to get invested in it.

And if you didn't see how it was going to end for Elisa a mile away, you might too dumb to be able to offer a genuine analysis of this movie. Or any other probably.