Joker 2: negative reviews and disappointing start at the box office

Joker 2: negative reviews and disappointing start at the box office



A difficult welcome for Joker: Folie a Deux

From this Wednesday, October 2nd, Arthur Fleckalways played by Joaquin Phoenix, he’s back in French cinemas. In Joker: Folie a Deuxthe character is this time accompanied by Harley Quinnfirst performed by Lady Gaga. Given the success of the first film, Joker: Folie a Deux it was one of the most anticipated feature films of the year. Unfortunately for him, Todd Phillips’ film has to deal with negative reviews.

ON Rotten tomatoescurrently only hasa very low score. The 166 journalists who expressed their opinion on the film gave it only a score of 39%. According to the opinion of more than 500 spectators, the situation is even worse, given that the soundtrack of the feature film is only 37% to date.

The film starts out much worse than its predecessor

As for the results of Joker 2 at the box office, they are also disappointing For now. In France, according to data shared by the X account @boxofficefr, the feature film “solo” 131,948 spectators for its first day in theaters. Todd Phillips’ film was therefore only performed the twelfth best start to the year. A disappointment if you take into account the anticipation that the film had aroused before its release. Above all, the comparison with its predecessor is unflattering. For its first day in theaters, Joker had attracted more than 291,000 spectators.

Not very encouraging data for the future

With a welcome like that, there is reason to worry For Joker: Folie a Deux. Critics won’t encourage viewers to go see it. And this isn’t just true in France. Even in this case the film could suffer comparison with its predecessor. Second Box office mojo, Joker he had reported everything more than 1 billion dollars in the world. We can think that the numbers for his sequel will be much lower. We may already have an indication when we know how much the film will have grossed at the end of next weekend in North America. The first one had collected more than 96 million on a weekend.

Source: Cine Serie

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