Joker: Folie a Deux scores an unwanted Rotten Tomatoes rating as critics blast ‘profoundly stupid’ sequel

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Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to the 2019 Joaquin Phoenix movie, has scored an undesirable Rotten Tomatoes rating as extra critics launch their opinions of the movie.

Preliminary responses to the premiere on the Venice Movie Competition in September have been blended, with some calling it “ingenious” or “beguiling” and others discovering it “uninteresting” and “laborious”.

Among the many critics who praised the movie was The Unbiased’s Geoffrey Macnab, who delivered a four-star verdict and wrote: “The darkness on the core of the movie is underlined by its very brutal ending, which rejects comedian ebook conventions in favour of psychological depth.

“Phoenix’s efficiency stays highly effective and stirring, too. The genius of it’s that we will’t assist however look after Arthur regardless of his neediness and derangement.”

The movie, which is a musical, additionally stars Woman Gaga because the Joker’s sidekick and love curiosity, Harley Quinn, had a modest early rating on Rotten Tomatoes on 61 per cent, as reported by Forbes, putting it as having the identical rating because the extensively derided Black Adam.

That has now dropped down to only 39 per cent as the vast majority of critics lay the boot into the story, songs and the a lot talked-about ending.

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The consensus evaluate on Rotten Tomatoes on the time of writing is: “Joaquin Phoenix’s eponymous Joker takes the stand in a sequel that dances round whereas the story stays nonetheless, though Woman Gaga’s wildcard power offers Folie á Deux some verve.”

New York Occasions critic Manohia Dargis writes: “The large non-news about Folie à Deux is that it’s a half-baked, half-hearted musical full with one star who can sing, Woman Gaga as Lee Quinzel aka Harley Quinn, and one other (Phoenix) who can’t or received’t.”

Audrey Fox for Looper stated: “Even followers of Joker are unlikely to seek out a lot to redeem this chaotic, profoundly silly mess.”

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Richard Roeper of the Chicago-Solar Occasions stated in his evaluate: “There’s at all times a joker, there’s at all times a clown — but when he doesn’t morph into one thing greater and bolder and extra horrible, it begins to really feel like we’ve seen this present earlier than, solely with out the musical numbers.”

Kevin Maher for The Occasions referred to as the movie “messy, lifeless, by-product and precisely what you’d anticipate from a movie that merely doesn’t need, or want, to exist”.

Extra beneficial opinions noticed Danny Leigh for The Monetary Occasions name it much less “dislikeable than its forebear” whereas Eire’s RTE stated: “The movie is effortlessly claustrophobic, dreamily undramatic and all the higher for it.”

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The movie is ready to be the final for Phoenix’s Joker. After the premiere, one journalist requested Phoenix about his weight reduction for the movie, which he stated was extra “difficult” than it had been with the 2019 authentic.

For the primary Joker, Phoenix misplaced 52 kilos to realize the lead character’s gaunt look and achieved this by consuming a eating regimen primarily consisting of steamed greens and lettuce.

Phoenix was hesitant to disclose particular particulars about his eating regimen this time round, telling reporters: “I’m not going to speak by means of specifics of the eating regimen.”

Nevertheless, he did say it “felt a bit extra difficult” shedding weight for the sequel “as there was a lot dance rehearsal that we have been doing, which I didn’t have final time”.