Joker fans demand refunds after Folie à Deux premiere: "Joker 2 was awful. 0/10 imo"

Joker fans were left disappointed and asking for refunds after watching Folie à Deux in theaters.

There's an old saying that goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," which is advice that the team behind Joker 2, also known as Joker: Folie à Deux, should have considered before agreeing to make the sequel.

The 2019 Joker received widespread critical and commercial success, with Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix delving deep into the comic book villain and portraying the tortured soul of Arthur Fleck. It was a daring direction to take the character, and it paid off tremendously, with Phoenix even winning an Oscar for his performance.

However, the film was not left as a standalone masterpiece, and five years later, Joker: Folie à Deux was released.

To be fair, the movie has only just premiered in cinemas (4 October), but the early reactions are harsh.

As of now, Folie à Deux holds a low 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling it a "pathologically unnecessary movie" and "a sequel we didn't need."

Fans have been equally critical, with social media flooded with complaints.

"Why is joker 2 so bad, I’ve never wanted my money back from a film," one person wrote on X, while another commented, "What makes Joker 2 so bad is that it refuses to commit to ANYTHING. There’s no theme at all, the court scenes are boring and the shock value ending is worse than I expected. Even the musical elements feel tacked on and interrupt the pacing. A total waste of time, never cook again."

Many viewers were also disappointed by the decision to turn the movie into a musical, featuring the Joker and Lady Gaga's Harleen 'Lee' Quinzel breaking into song randomly.

"Joker 2 was awful. 0/10 imo. The storyline could’ve been better and the music was just irritating," a third person wrote.

However, not everyone has been entirely negative about the film, with some speculating that the fact Folie à Deux is disliked may actually be part of its intention.

"I thought Joker 2 was bad… but the fact that so many chuds who thought Arthur was their people’s champion in the first movie have to face that Joker 2 frames him as actually just a nobody loser with main character syndrome is a pretty funny silver lining tbh lol," one user noted on X.