“I lost hope when I read ‘musical.'”
“Even worse, it’s a ‘Jukebox musical’, meaning almost all the songs were pre-existing songs by popular musicians rather than songs actually written for the movie. According to the soundtrack on Wikipedia, the only exception is a single song that Gaga wrote for the film. That’s just a terrible, horrible idea for a Joker movie.”
“There were so many things bad about Joker 2, but the musical aspect doesn’t make my top 50. (I actually enjoyed some of those segments.) I find it hard to look past the fact that the whole movie seemed to be saying, ‘Remember the first movie? Remember how things actually happened? Well, you should feel bad about liking it. Now here’s 10 more minutes of Joker feeling bad about what he did.’
I didn’t even particularly love Joker, but Joker 2 was so self-flagellating and intensely dull it kind of boggles the mind. Spoiler for those who care: no one dies in the movie (I guess until one brief moment toward the end). Joker doesn’t kill anyone. Nothing happens. Unreal.”