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Joker: Folie à Deux can barely hold a tune
Joker: Folie à Deux drops the show on Gotham’s clown prince.
Despite its lack of a Batman, the public’s exhaustion with comic book movies, and a story that often felt overly imitative of Martin Scorsese’s work, Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker was a certified hit whose box office success(and two Oscar wins) all but ensured that there would be a sequel. After Joker and its framing of Arthur as a murderous folk hero, Folie à Deux feels like Phillips stepping back to present him as a man grappling with what it really means to have given birth to a burgeoning movement built on ideas he doesn’t necessarily embody. Everyone saw Arthur, in clown makeup, shoot a late night talk show host on national television — a key moment from Joker cleverly recounted in Folie à Deux ’s opening animated short set to “Me and My Shadow.”
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