Last Updated on 05/09/2024 by Arun jain
Fans are excited for the sequel Joaquin PhoenixOscar winner of Joker Obviously, to be disappointed. Joker: Folly a DeuxA movie title that’s incredibly annoying to type into Google Docs, premiered Wednesday Venice Film Festival For disappointing reviews. It doesn’t even make that out Lady Gaga The musical has enough to draw a Joker-esque smile on critics’ faces.
Although the trailers tease the sequel as a movie-musical epic, IGN’s Siddhant Adlakha wrote that the film is “really a courtroom drama, and not very interesting.”
vulture’s head It is that the film “commits the cardinal sin of spoiling Lady Gaga.” Alison Wilmore wrote, “She’s not Lee Arthur’s equal partner but another accessory to his grand tragedy—taking on a supercharged, scary-eyed serial-killer gang.”
IndieWire Director Todd Phillips’ musical sequel “feels like it’s bad on purpose.” David Ehrlich wrote That the film is “boring, flat and such a criminal waste of Lady Gaga that we should demand a public hearing. He said, “The film tries and fails to make an issue of our own frustration with it.”
Worst line of Ehrlich’s review: He said the film was “blockbuster filmmaking as a form of collective punishment.”
Anyone who thought first Joker Film polarization was not won by this sequel. The GuardianPeter Bradshaw called him “Hard, grueling and often downright boring as a first film
Even the musical numbers are not enough to make the film worthwhile. “These song-and-dance numbers are a welcome chance to hear Gaga cover some of the most romantic standards in the American songbook, and a less welcome chance to hear Phoenix do her own crokier renditions,” The The BBC’s Nicholas Barber wrote. “And instead of moving the story along as songs in musicals should, they slow it down. You’re left with the feeling that Phillips doesn’t have enough plot to fill another two hours without him.”
The news is not all bad. There were some reviewers who were positive about the film. Independentof Geoffrey McNab said Folly a Deux was “as unmistakable and daring as the original”. Wrap this upNo William Bibiani called The film is “effectively a freak sequel”.
“Unlike the original, which finds a perverse heroism in Arthur Flack’s failures, Folly a Deux Doubling down on how pathetic he is and always has been,” Bibiani wrote. “It’s a sad, brooding and impressively quirky motion picture that uses the theatrics of movie musicals to undermine its hero’s ambitions rather than elevate them.”
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