About 20 minutes into Guillermo del Toro’s "Frankenstein," we find ourselves in what seems to be an underground cistern, with the larger-than-life and chained Creature playing innocently with the water and looking lost. I have a flashback: in my head, I search the archive of moving images and land upon "The Shape of Water" and belatedly remember that it was again del Toro who wanted us to sympathize with an oversized male baby. And then, when the stunningly dressed Mia Goth as Elizabeth approaches him with nothing short of undying love, "the woman in love with ugly thing" theme from "The Shape of Water" is, to my dismay, complete. I feel it my duty to disabuse men of the notion that women like ugly men. The hard truth is women actually like beautiful men, though del Toro seems to have devoted his career to making you believe this is not so.
However, the "women love ugly men" theme is the least of my worries about this production. From the beginning of the film del Toro cannot put a foot right.
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