The Shape of Water

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

This is by far one of the most ridiculous, boring, presumptuous, film I have seen in a long time. Basically its like watching Amelie, set in a roger rabbit lab, with caricatures of characters. The film is patronizing, there are many political themes poorly transplanted into the main theme. The love affair is not believable but just plain creepy. To like this you must either lack critical sense or would need to be ignorant of the last 30 years of movie production, unless the motive in watching is to make a stereotypical dumbed down political statement about “progressive” ideas, which oddly feels misplaced even. The pace is terrible. The art direction and film score is a plain copy (but poorly executed) of Amelie. To my opinion, there may have been a good idea at the start, but it ends up being an overrated, grotesque movie, that tries to mix together tons of classics dressed up as an art avant-garde original film. It’s not original, but obviously Hollywood like to reward thievery and intellectual laziness.-Amazon Customer

Theater review. Possible spoilers. While watching this film in a sparsely populated multiplex theater, a few people began to walk out midway through the movie. I’ve seen this before and I always find myself guessing why. I mean what were they expecting? My guess with this film is that it is a tale of fantasy. One involving romance with a humanoid-like creature but clearly not human. I’m sure everyone knows of the numerous iterations of “Beauty and the Beast” but don’t get upset. Maybe the difference is that this film is pretty graphic, not only with the brutality of beast’s captivity but of the bold sexual context.-M. Oleson

My husband and I loved this. Perhaps the difference from some reviewers is that I enjoy reading the genre of romance and basically this is an amazing, romantic fairytale. It had all the elements I need to enjoy a great HEA. We have the sad and lonely heroine, the strong and supportive best friends (Octavia Spencer and Richard Jenkins), the tortured (in this case literally, tortured) hero, and the unrepentant villain. Michael Shannon made a fabulous bad guy, really embodying everything vile. He was a horrible, self-absorbed, arrogant, racist, chauvinistic jerk and it was enjoyable to watch him disintegrate (again literally and figuratively) as the movie progressed. I always like the bad guy to loose big in the end!-Helen

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg
Directors: Guillermo del Toro
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Dubbed: French, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: R-Restricted
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: March 13, 2018
Run Time: 123 minutes
ASIN: B07894WXX6