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I was expecting to love this film. It's.... okay. I mean, it's pretty good.

It really suffers from never giving the fish-man his own strong characterization. They do a good job bringing out everyone else and what drives them, but the fish-man never graduates out of being simply alien. He ends up the flattest part of the film. I wish they'd given him perhaps a bit of a sense of humor, or reticence, or something. Perhaps they pushed the prosthetics too far. Doug Jones as Abe Sapien was still able to emote quite well with his mouth, but in this one he was really limited to his hands, which had also been built up so much you didn't get his characteristic hand performance.