Official Trailer
Our Review
- Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Lady Gaga
- October 4th 2024
- 138
- Todd Phillips
Joaquin Phoenix returns as Arthur Fleck/Joker in Todd Phillips’s sequel to the 2019 box office smash.
Joker became the first R-rated movie to cross over the $1 billion mark back in 2019 so it was no surprise when a sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, was announced.
This time around, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital while he awaits trial for all those murders he committed in the first film.
His lawyer, Maryanne Stewart (Catherine Keener), mounts a defence in which she claims the Joker committed those crimes and Fleck did not, while assistant district attorney Harvey Dent (Harry Lawtey) argues that they are still the same person.
Before his trial, Fleck meets fellow Arkham inmate Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel (Lady Gaga) and they fall deeply in love.
The original Joker didn’t feel like it needed a sequel and it turns out there wasn’t enough substance to warrant one. Joker: Folie à Deux doesn’t have much of a new story outside of the romance plot – it simply rehashes the events of the previous film...
