Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought of Joker 2

Theere’ve been a batch of superhero movies that’ve released successful the past decade, but Joker was 1 of the biggest question marks of 2019. With nary a Batman oregon Harley Quinn successful sight, Joaquin Phoenix took halfway signifier arsenic the aboriginal clown prince Arthur Fleck successful Todd Phillips’ 1980s rendition of Gotham City that courted immoderate pre-release controversy. That didn’t halt it from becoming a large hit: not lone did it gross over $1 billion and reaffirm that R-rated superheroes had a spot successful theaters, it besides took location some Academy Awards.

Suffice to say, nine (which we unrecorded in) definite was feeling Joker five years ago. It’s nary astonishment Phillips and Phoenix returned for a sequel, and brought successful Lady Gaga to play his erstwhile gal pal successful this weekend’s Joker: Folie à Deux. What mightiness beryllium a astonishment is that it doesn’t look to beryllium hitting quite the same arsenic the archetypal movie. Reviews for the sequel—which, spoiler alert, is a musical nary substance however overmuch they tried skirting astir it—don’t truly enactment it successful the champion light. While there’s praise to spell astir for Phoenix and Gaga’s Joker/Harley treble act, that mightiness beryllium the lone accordant agleam spot: everything else, from the philharmonic sequences to the question it raises astir Fleck and its ending, person gotten immoderate tomatoes to the face.

Given however the archetypal Joker was a spot of a game-changer for WB—which did (and might still) request much superhero-related wins nether its belt—the little than stellar reviews for this 1 are a unsmooth archetypal step. But different movies person been successful akin spots and managed to travel retired connected to. Time volition archer whether Folie à Deux is capable to resonate with viewers careless of its mixed reception, and if WB is consenting to springiness it the legs needed to effort and find that audience. But for now, we privation to cognize what you thought of the joketastic sequel. Loved it, hated it, confused by what it was trying to do? Let america cognize down successful the comments below.

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