The first opinions on Joker 2: Folie à Deux are in! A redemption for the DC Universe after the excellent The Batman? According to the press reports, not really.
Joker 2: Folie à Deux will be released in France on October 2, 2024 and is already highly anticipated. After The Batman and especially the success of the previous film, Warner Bros. Pictures has been able to repeat its feat and raise hundreds of millions of dollars. The addition of Lady Gaga to the cast alone could even be a real engine to surpass the revenue of the first feature film, which was around a billion US dollars. Will this be the case? That’s another story, because the reviews that have just come out could do this sequel no favors.
The first reviews of “Joker 2” are in, but there is disagreement
Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Philips travelled to the 2024 Venice Film Festival to present Joker 2: Folie à Deux. When the lights came back on, the teams were rewarded with a (very) long 12-minute standing ovation. A polite or convinced audience? Maybe a bit of both. At the same time, the first opinions came in and there was a cold shower. At the time of publication of this article, the Rotten Tomatoes score is 61% from 44 reviews from the trade press. In comparison, the first film is certainly not much higher, but with 601 press reviews.
For Vanity Fair, Joker 2 could be seen as a middle finger. “Todd Phillips’ dark sequel, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, is a middle finger to those who wanted to tell something important in the saga.”. “Depending on your point of view, this myth-busting exercise is either daring or irritatingly complacent, but it’s certainly not much fun.” takes into account the BBC, which is very disappointed and even judges the film ” useless “.
According to Variety, “Joker 2 Folie à Deux” is a sequel that takes too few risks. “Joker 2 may be ambitious and superficially extravagant, but at its core it is a sequel that takes few risks.”. In the negative reviews, the musical part seems to be controversial. Among all the opinions, we still find positive ones like TheWrap. “Folie à Deux the most interesting film about Arthur Fleck”.
Source: Rotten tomatoes.
