Shock: “Joker 2” Draws Mixed Reviews In Venice as Musical “Slog” and “Impressively Odd,” “Bad On Purpose”

Todd Phillps’ “Joker 2: Folie a Deux” is getting blended critiques from its Venice Movie Competition debut.

The sequel to “Joker” is a musical starring Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga. Warner Bros. has downplayed the musical classification however in spite of everything, that is Girl Gaga concerned.

The critiques vary from good to terrible, so the screening definitely affected its first audiences.

Indie Wire says: Boring, flat, and such a felony waste of Girl Gaga that we must always demand a public listening to, “Folie à Deux” tries and fails to make some extent of our personal frustrations with it.

Joker, aka Arthur Fleck, meets Gaga’s Harley Quinn in jail. There’s singing and dancing. The Guardian writes: “the entire film lastly seems to be oppressively, claustrophobically and repetitively becalmed in that oddly unreal Gotham-universe jail with Phoenix and Gaga stored aside for lengthy intervals – and Phoenix’s personal efficiency is as single-note as earlier than, although definitely as forceful and his display screen presence is potent.”

Selection: “desperate-to-be-darkly-irreverent however truly reasonably clunky and earthbound musical sequel”

The Wrap — which oddly marked it as “Contemporary” on Rotten Tomatoes — : It’s a tragic, pensive, and impressively odd movement image that makes use of the theatricality of film musicals to undermine its hero’s ambitions as a substitute of elevating them. There’s no enterprise like present enterprise? It’s, like… no. It’s enterprise, you already know?

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.

It doesn’t matter what the critiques are from Venice, audiences will clamor to see this movie. I do know I’ll, and I actually need to hear the music from Girl Gaga.

SPOILER ALERT: from an interview Phillips did this morning, there’s a sign that Arthur Fleck doesn’t make it out of the film alive. When requested if he might make one other “Joker” movie, Phillips responded within the unfavourable. “Have you ever seen this movie?” he stated.

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