Joker 2 critiques – Joaquin Phoenix sequel branded ‘startlingly dull’ by critics | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Five years after the Oscar-winning crucial acclaim and billion-dollar field workplace success of Joker, and Joaquin Phoenix returns for a sequel.

This time across the DC Studios Batman spin-off co-stars Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn on this musical psychological thriller.

Following the world premiere on the Venice International Film Festival yesterday, the primary critiques are in and they’re decidedly blended for Joker 2.

Joker: Folie à Deux presently sits at 60 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, proper on the cusp of getting a inexperienced splat.

Check out the vary of reactions from the most effective to the worst under.

Empire
As candy and beguiling a musical romance because it’s potential to have between two murderous psychopaths. Its kooky strategy gained’t swimsuit all stripes of comic-book fan, however it finds an odd, tragic hopefulness all of its personal.

Hollywood Reporter
Gaga is a compelling live-wire presence, splitting the distinction between affinity and obsession, whereas endearingly giving Arthur a shot… Their musical numbers, each duets and solos, have a vitality that the extra usually dour movie desperately wants.

Daily Telegraph
Folie à Deux can’t fairly match its predecessor for dizzying affect. But it matches it for horrible tinderbox stress: it’s a movie you are feeling may burst into flames at any given second.

Time Out
We’re left with the tragedy of a damaged man in a world solely involved in sensationalism. It’s a giant swing for all concerned, however all the higher for it.

Independent
Overall Folie à Deux is simply as edgy and disturbing as its forerunner, replicating the concept of recent American cities as terrifying powder kegs perpetually on the cusp of explosion.

Financial Times
Joker nonetheless has a trick up its sleeve — even a severe subtext. The finest second comes late on in an incendiary scene…

The Guardian
Though it finally ends up as strident, laborious and infrequently flat-out tedious as the primary movie, there’s an enchancment.

BBC
Depending on the way you take a look at it, this demythologising train is both daring or it is irritatingly smug, however it’s positively not a lot enjoyable.

Vanity Fair
It’s startlingly uninteresting, a pointless procedural that appears to disdain its viewers.

Variety
Joker: Folie à Deux could also be bold and superficially outrageous, however in a fundamental means it’s an excessively cautious sequel.

London Evening Standard
Despite its fascinating and sophisticated foremost character, the movie is in the end uninteresting and plodding, taking us nowhere, slowly.

The Times
Phillips and co smashed again into the self-contained world, shook all of the contents out on to the carpet and… had one other go. The outcome? Messy, lifeless, by-product and precisely what you’d count on from a movie that merely doesn’t need, or want, to exist.

Joker: Madness for Two hits cinemas on October 4, 2024.