Joker: Folie À Deux has been branded the 'most disappointing follow-up to
the Oscar-winning movie' by critics, as they cast doubt on Lady Gaga's 'thin' role in the film following its release on Friday.
The 'bleak' sequel, has also received a tepid reception from fans, with some claiming Lady
Gaga's career could be at risk.
While the same director Todd Phillips was back in the hot
seat, critics have said the sequel is just a 'repeat' of the first hit
but with an added musical twist.
Most critics have said Todd failed to use Gaga correctly in the movie and claimed she was only
bought in for the musical aspect of it.
While the majority of critics say Joker: Folie À
Deux didn't live up to expectations, others have dubbed the movie
'bold' and 'brilliant'.
Joker: Folie À Deux has been branded the 'most disappointing follow-up to the Oscar-winning movie' by
critics (Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga pictured in the movie)
While the same director Todd Phillips was back in the hot seat, critics have said the sequel is just a 'repeat' of the
first hit but with an added musical twist
Joker: Folie à Deux premiered at the 81st Venice International
Film Festival last month and was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on Friday.
The Daily Mail's Brian Viner commended the move as 'bold' and 'brilliant' but said it lacked any thrill.
Giving the sequel a four star rating, he wrote: 'This film is audaciously different in style from the original, not as electrifying,
but bold and brilliant all the same.
'Arthur is now behind bars, waiting to see whether he will be judged
sane enough to stand trial for murder, and in the meantime enjoying his celebrity status with
fellow prisoners and even the warders, one of whom, a sadistic Irishman played by Brendan Gleeson, feeds him cigarettes in return for jokes.
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'Lady Gaga plays Lee, a fellow inmate on her way, we suppose,
to becoming Joker's girlfriend Harley Quinn. The pair hit it off at a music therapy class, and are soon mutually smitten, but Lee makes
it clear that she loves the dangerously charismatic Joker, 'clown prince of crime',
not the gloomily introspective Arthur.
'Which is more real: the psychopath wearing the mask or the vulnerable
fellow behind it? Either way, identity confusion is the theme of this film, which keeps being billed as a musical.
'It's not, really, although music looms large as an expression of Arthur and Lee's burgeoning love for one another.
And there are a couple of swooning dance routines that make them look like psychotic versions of
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land (2016).
'For me, Joker was a near-masterpiece, and while this sequel doesn't scale
those heady heights, it is still a gripping film about mental
illness; not quite comparable with all-time greats
such as Psycho (1960) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), but not too far off.'
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