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I Am Disappointed & Heartbroken

 



If you remember in 2019, the movie Joker was released to mixed critical reception but great audience reception and was a massive box-office success. It's sequel, Folie à Deux on the other hand is a totally different story. To be honest the movie itself is basically a recap of everything that happened in the first movie, but in the form of a court drama musical and Harley Quinn enters the picture.

The movie being bad is an overstatement. Disappointing on the other hand is the correct way to describe it. The writing wasn't the greatest and the musical numbers just didn't work. I understand what the movie was going for, but it was executed very poorly. Not that I'm a fan, but Harley Quinn was completely wasted in this movie. I know she was basically known as Joker's ride or die, but she was more than willing to get her hands dirty. I thought that would be the case here, but she barely did anything in this movie aside from supporting Joker throughout his trial and putting stupid ideas in his head. The entire relationship of Joker and Harley never got gritty as all. It was just them singing songs the entire time and a bunch of stupid dream sequences. No one wants to see that, they want to see them kill! It most likely wouldn't be much of a problem if the movie was more action and the music came at the side. But the movie was less action, more court drama. Joker himself had some mischaracterization, mainly involving the ending (which itself was rather stupid).  Again, I understand where the movie was coming from in terms of being a musical, but the songs came in at some of the most random and ridiculous times to the point where it became extremely cringy. Also, Harvey Dent was kinda useless too.   

The movie did have some good elements. Phoenix and Gaga did a very good job, their acting was fantastic and their chemistry was on point. Visually, the movie looks gorgeous. And lastly, there was also a court scene involving Gary that was easily the best scene in the movie.

As someone who highly approves of the first one, I am disappointed and heartbroken by this movie. They should've left it at the original😔. Thanks for reading.

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