I strongly suggest you don't waste your money on this
Joker: Folie à Deux
As a lifelong fan of musicals, I'll tell ya -
Joker: Folie à Deux isn't much of a musical. It isn't even much of a movie.
This time, the joke's on the audience. And it isn't even remotely funny.
This is one of those movies where the behind-the-scenes featurettes are guaranteed to be more entertaining than the movie itself.
It's a 2-1/2 hour compilation of mostly awful or pointless scenes adding up to... nothing, really.
The movie tries to provide a "shock" ending and, well, good luck avoiding spoilers for this one, because they're going to be out there and they're going to be hard to miss. And it is very unlikely, once word gets out, it will make people want to even watch the movie.
It's a real shame, because it's obvious that WB spared no expense in getting a first-rate supporting cast and a very good crew. The building materials to make a decent movie are all there - but there's just no story.
You could probably get a 5-year-old to come up with a better and more entertaining story than what passes for one here: it's basically Joker being put on trial for what he did in the first movie. That's it.
And then there's the absolutely worst thing about the film: what it does to the character of Harley Quinn (called "Lee" here). There have been some pretty good depictions of the character in other movies and animated series. But here, it isn't even much of a character: it's just an excuse to get Gaga in the movie, and use the character's actions for convenient plot turns.
The Joker sequel doesn't work as a musical, doesn't work as a courtroom drama, doesn't work as a psychological thriller, and frankly, it just doesn't work at all.
Even the use of IMAX format here is completely wasted - which is particularly maddening since this movie comes just a week after the greatest masterpiece of the year, Coppola's
Megalopolis, which made such excellent use of the format.
It is really very sad to see fine character actors like Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Steve Coogan and Zazie Beetz wasted in tripe like this.
Hands down, the leading candidate right now for worst movie of the year.