So...last night I was having a rough day with the kiddos before the wife came home. So she sent me to the movies. So, I watched this Joker Floppy a Deuce. With all of 5 people, including myself, in the auditorium for the screening.
I am judging this movie as a movie. Not how well it does or doesn't represent the DC character the Joker. As a movie, and a musical in particular....a good musical transitions between standard dialogue and the singing and bombastic sequences seamlessly. One example I will give is Hugh Jackman and Zac Effron go drinking discussing their lives and working together. Then in the middle of that conversation, Hugh gives his pitch to working for him and the song begins. Seamlessly. You're already invested in the scene and you don't even register the shift. Now....what if I told you instead of that, all the musical sequence would just stop the movie dead on its tracks and instead of singing like they're pros and doing good music, the actors have to sing like drunk people doing karaoke at a bar. Does that sound appealing? It's not. This was an abysmal disaster. Megalopolis levels of bad. Probably worse. If not for Borderlands, this would be the worst thing I saw all year.
1/5
Fans of Joker will hate it. Some fans may offer excuses like it's a masterpiece of trolling in the vein of Freddy Got Fingered or something. But for me, this is just bad cinema