Head scratcher of a film is glacially paced, odd musical numbers and rambles around seeming not having a direction. The story follows Arthur Fleck as he goes on trial while hooking up with a woman who becomes his Harley and ... I don't know.
Points for trying something different but minus many more for failing to make it interesting. If the original film was a shift away from typical superhero films into something more real and grounded, this is an outright rejection of even that. I may have not liked the first film but I at least knew why it existed, this on the other hand has no point.
That Warners kept this turkey alive when all the others were cheaper and would have turned a profit together is a sign of their derangement at the top (probably thought it was to expensive to kill- or thought it would actually make some money - made about a quarter of its cost not including promotion). This film is so calculatingly bad that I'm not even certain it' anything other than a an F-U to the studio
Nothing here works. The Sylvain Chomet animated opening seems out of place. The songs are so oddly performed as to make you wonder why they did it this way since they are more distancing then engaging. Yes the performances are fine but the characters aren't given enough to do to fill the two hours twenty minutes. Its sturm and drang and "where is the remote" or "I can't believe I paid to see this".
While not bad enough to go on my worst of the year list, it would go on my least needed films of the year.
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