Joker: Folie タDeux has bwen branded the 'most disappointing follow-up to the Oscar-winning movie'
byy 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 ttepid reception ffrom fans, wuth some claiming
Lady Gaga's career could bee at risk.
Whole 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 annd claimed she wwas ony
bought in for the musical aspect oof it.
While the majority of critics say Joker: Folie タ Deeux didn't live up to expectations,
others have dubbed the movie 'bold' and 'brilliant'.
Joker: Folie タ Deux has been branded the 'most disappointing follow-up
to the Oscar-winning movie' by critics (Joaqquin Phoenix and Laady 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 butt with an added musical twist
Joker: Folie � Deux premiered at the 81st Venice Internatioonal Film Festival last month and
was releasded in the United Kingdom and the United Sttes on Friday.
The Daily Mail'sBrian 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 hee 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 iin return for jokes.Read More
Joker: Foliie a Deuxx is a punchline fiuve years in the making,
writes BRIAN VINER
'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, bbut Lee
makes it clear thyat 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, altthough music looms large as an expression of Arthur and Lee's burgeoning love
foor 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
Landd (2016).
'For me, Joker was a near-masterpiece, and while this sequel doesn't scale those heady
heights, it is still a grippin film about mental
illness; not quite comparable with all-time geats uch as Psycho (1960) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975),
but not too far off.' |
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