The follow-up to the Oscar-winning 2019 film, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck (Joker) and Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel (Harley Quinn), faced negative reviews from critics before its October 4 release and flopped at the box office.
Tim, 39, who played a guard at Arkham Asylum in the movie, said Todd Philips’s new film has "no plot" and admitted he knew it was "going to bomb" while filming. Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Tim said: "It's the worst film ever made. I think what happened, after the first Joker, there was a lot of talk like, 'Oh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism! All these think pieces. And then I think, 'What if we went the other way,' and now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it's insane."
He continued: "It has no plot. We would sit there, me and these other guys were all dressed in these security outfits because we're working at the Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of them and we would hear this crap and I would go, 'What the f*** is this?' And they would go, 'This is going to bomb, man.' I go, 'This is the worst thing I've ever seen.' We were talking about it at lunch, and we'd go, 'What is the plot? Is there a plot? I don't know, I think he falls in love with her in the prison?' It's not even hate-watchable. That's how terrible it is."
Despite the negative reviews a number of fans of the sequel took to social media after its release last month to defend the sequel to Todd Phillips' 2019 motion picture. The film debuted to a paltry $40 million at the domestic box office, good enough for the weekend's top spot, but less than projections, and half that of its predecessor. Amid the early returns, a number of fans took up for the movie and its cinematic depth, in breaking away from the cookie cutter nature of sequels to introduce a musical element not present in the first film, with Lady Gaga joining the franchise.
"Joker 2 was amazing," one user said, adding that it was "100% as divisive as people are making it out to be. I love that the film didn’t try to be a traditional sequel, and fully committed to the storytelling they presented. It never deviated to be a film full of Easter eggs or any other crowd pleasing aspects." Another user said, 'I kinda loved Joker 2. I loved how it was structured as a meta-exploration of the first film’s fandom and the musical elements were a lot of fun." (Daily Mail)
