The Shape of Water is the Shape of Whatever You Put it in

The Shape of Water (2017)

Well, The Shape of Water is the best movie I have seen in 2018. (I realize I made this joke at the beginning of 2017 and 2016, but I will continue until it doesn't make me chuckle). It was very weird. Weirder than any of Guillermo del Toro's other works, which is saying something. I certainly wasn't bad, but it was ... weird. There isn't really any other way to describe it. It was very well acted on all parts, but especially Michael Shannon. He is fantastic is everything I see him in, even awful movies like Jonah Hex. I am captivated whenever he is onscreen, especially when he plays the villain, like in The Shape of Water. Everyone else was excellent as well, and made for an entertaining movie, but it was still so weird. Also, way more sex than I expected. Three minutes into the movie, Sally Hawkins is jilling off in her bathtub, which made seeing this with my mom very awkward. But, seriously, don't bring your kids. It was like if Belle in Beauty and the Beast kidnapped the beast and kept banging him. Again, weird. It was still good, so I give it three out of five uncomfortable moments with your mom.