Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Shape of Water is one of the greatest movie this decade. This movie was shot in 1.81:1, expect minor black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. The picture quality is excellent showing details and color almost flawlessly. The audio track is also great with a few minor issues.

This film is another reminder about how skilled Del Toro is as a filmmaker. The beautiful blu-ray allows the viewer to get lost in the blacks and the wide range of the color green. He explores the ideas of tolerance within the fantasy genre. He's truly one of my favorite filmakers.

I loved this movie when I first saw it. A wonderful story and visually incredible. Once I watched extras, learned the reason why del Toro fashioned it the way he did, and his passion behind telling the story, it made it even richer. It has moved into one of my top 5 favorite movies.

I was blown away by this movie because I normally do not by a movie for my collection before I have seen it. This movie struck my wife and I to buy it unseen and it was the best movie we have seen in years. Really great acting A+ and we would recommend it to all.

If you like the unusual with a creature twist then this is the love story for you. Some scenes in this movie I felt were not suitable for young children i.e. our female touching herself in the bathtub. I will leave it at that. But the Creature from The Black Lagoon finds a girlfriend theme here is pretty cool.

There is a reason this won an Oscar for Best Picture. Classified as Science Fiction, Benicio Del Toro has used that genre to create a moving heartwarming drama set amidst the background of the early sixties Cold War. This one will not disappoint.

I will admit that I purchased this movie on a whim, as it was in 4K and I had very few titles and that format. Director gear Mo del Toro as odd sensibilities in my opinion, But a great Imagination for off the wall entertainment. Over all I am not disappointed in this purchase ... It looked great in this format.

This is like "Creature from the Black Lagoon" in many ways; a love story, beauty and the beast. Outstanding acting, great setting, the music is period correct and lovely. Singles and Couples alike will be touched by this enjoyable but tragic movie.

Yes, this film has Twisted spins and lots of Love story Uniqueness... Any Movie buff who enjoys the unusual as well as the WELL DONE film works will so enjoy this well written and produced film... Get your popcorn ready boys and Girls !!!

War-era America circa 1962. A government laboratory where lonely Elisa works. Her life changes when she discovers a secret classified experiment. It will keep you rooting for the underdog. Embracing a unexpected romance. And wanting more.

Really like this movie. Off-beat and something out of the ordinary. Reminded me of the Creature Feature movies I watched growing up so some real good Nostalgic feelings. They captured the era of early 1960"s well. I was pleasantly surprised when it won the Oscar for Best Picture too!

The Shape of Water, the most recent film from Guillermo Del Toros is a richly and visually evocative film that is a variation on The Creature of the Black Lagoon (if the Creature actually got the girl willingly). Well worth it.

Guillermo del Toro finally did it, he made a movie that blew me away. I've enjoyed most of his other films (though not his Hellboy movies or Crimson Peak), and The Devil's Backbone is a near masterpiece in horror (and maybe it is, need to see it again), but The Shape of Water is the first of his I absolutely "love." Sure, it's deeply nostalgic to the style of old school Hollywood, harping back to the studio era of filmmaking. So in that way it is already directly speaking to me and holding my interest. Del Toro's film geek leanings are on full display here, and yet he's able to make a - mostly - mainstream sort of movie with it. Every area of craft in the movie is excellent; acting, directing, writing, score, art direction, cinematography, etc. Sally Hawkins is great in her mostly mute performance, she would have done well in silent pictures. I love Richard Jenkins in this, what a wonderful character as well. Octavia Spencer is always good and here her scene with Michael Shannon is electric. Michael Shannon, is, well, Michael Shannoning himself a lot in this, lol. Not to deride his performance, because no ones plays unhinged and angry better than him. Michael Stuhlbarg gives a surprising depth to such an usually stock type of character, he needs to be given more larger roles. The Shape of Water is a movie about outsiders, like many of del Toro's movies, and it feels very socially relevant and inclusive for our times. I'm happy - and surprised - it won Best Picture, the first time in awhile that my favorite film of the year won Best Picture (probably since LOTR: Return of the King).

This movie is one of my favorites of Director Guillermo Del Toro. This movie and the way it goes from fantasy to reality, from humorous to gut wrenching is amazing. I cant recommend it enough. I love it. Highest recommendation!

One of the best movies of all time. I have seen it 4 times in the theater and 5 times on TV but this 4k UHD version is beyond all of the others in color and brightness and detail. The sound is like water-its all around you.

Guillermo del Toro is today’s master of fantasy, having been a childhood lover of monsters growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, before making some of the finest films of recent years -- from the ghostly horror of “The Devil’s Backbone” in 2001 to his gothic horror/romance, “Crimson Peak” in 2015. Indubitably, however, his greatest film is “Pan’s Labyrinth”, the 2006 film many of us consider the finest fantasy film ever made. Now he’s broken new ground with “The Shape of Water”, one of 2017’s most beautiful films. Set in Baltimore in the year 1962 at the height of the Cold War, the plot follows a mute janitor at a secret government laboratory who forms a bond with a captured amphibian of the “Creature of the Black Lagoon” variety. Her name is Elisa, and Sally Hawkins plays her with an artistry that seems to reach back to the silent days of Chaplin and Keaton. Michael Shannon, with devoted viciousness, plays the right-wing Colonel Strickland, someone more interested in dissecting the creature for exploitation purposes than he is concerned over the space race with the Soviets. There are also elements of religious allegory (“We’re created in the Lord’s image. You don’t think that’s what the Lord looks like, do you?”). Del Toro saw “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” on TV at 7 years old and it changed his life. Wishing a different ending for it in which the Gill Man and co-star Julie Adams would consummate their romance and live ‘happily ever after’, he wrote various scripts of a remake through the years that Universal studio executives wound up rejecting. “The Shape of Water” is the result of del Toro’s dream, and now today, with more permissive filmmaking allowable, he’s able to deal with the previously verboten issue between fish and human. The resulting film is a worthy accomplishment not only for its production design (embodying various shades of green) and its special effects, but also for attaining the level of a genuine adult fairy tale that deals with issues of trust, tolerance, and love in the human condition -- but most of all what it’s like to be an outsider (whether a lonely mute woman, gay man, overweight black woman, or an amphibious sea creature). “This is a healing movie for me,” del Toro states; one likes to think it would be for viewers as well.

This is a nice-looking and well-acted film but if you’re gonna try to sell me a romance between a human woman and a slimy fish monster (who must smell AWFUL, by the way) then can you possibly set up that romance in a believable way? There’s not even any buildup! She’s making goo-goo eyes at this affront to God’s creation the second she sees it! Also, maybe give the fish creature a personality or even, I dunno, a name? Perhaps “Charlie” after the tuna can mascot would do. Anything would suffice! And don’t get me started on the scene where the creature, hiding out in Stephen Jenkins’s character’s apartment, outright murders one of Jenkins’s cats for simply being a good, loyal pet and defending its territory from this monster. The nerve of this film!

One of the finest looking 4Ks I’ve checked out. Definitely pick this up.

Didn’t know what to expect in this unusual story. Fantastic visuals, a great story and throughly enjoyable movie. Nice to watch a movie you can just loose yourself in and switch oif the rest of the world for a bit.

I THINK DIRECTOR del Toro's BEST FILM, WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE A LOVE SCENE BETWEEN A WATER CREATURE & A HUMAN AND STILL BE ABLE TO BELIEVE THAT IT'S NEEDED TO HAPPEN IN THIS GREAT LOVE STORY !!!!!!!!!!!