I'm writing this post because it's getting very low ratings. From the reviews that I read, many people say it doesn't meet their expectations of what a superhero movie should be.
I'm not a capeshit enjoyer. I chose to see Joker 2 because Joker 1 had vague themes of "defunding welfare programs is bad". In the first movie, Joker loses access to his mental illness medication because the politicians defund the welfare programs and that leads Joker to start doing crimes.
What I liked about Joker 2 is that everyone around him wants to make him miserable, but instead he chooses to be happy. In my opinion, it is the most pure example of absurdity. The whole world wants to make Joker miserable and he is powerless to change other people, but he can deny giving the world what they want so he chooses to laugh. I find that to be entertaining.
The movie was about 60% musical. Whenever Joker starts to hallucinate, everyone starts singing. I think it was okay, but other people did not like that. You probably won't like the movie if you are expecting it to follow the superhero movie formula.
Fuck sweaty nerds who wanted yet another "le epic clown man does crimes I can live vicariously through since IRL the joker would probably shoot me". What made the first movie good was exactly that, that it wasn't epic clown man doing crime, until the last minutes of the film. It was a pretty honest take on what it's like to be poor and neurodiverse in the imperial core.
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, wasn't most of that just a delusion? They went pretty ham-fisted with the "unreliable narrator" trope at the end.
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The new one clarifies that he did kill his chud coworker, the wallstreet bros, the cop and his mom in additional to