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 combined evaluations from its Venice Movie Pageant debut.

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

The evaluations 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 should always demand a public listening to, “Folie à Deux” tries and fails to make a degree 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 saved aside for lengthy durations – 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 really 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 an alternative of elevating them. There’s no enterprise like present enterprise? It’s, like… no. It’s enterprise, ?

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 evaluations 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 may make one other “Joker” movie, Phillips responded within the destructive. “Have you ever seen this movie?” he stated.

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