Joker 2 Rotten Tomatoes Score Is In: Another Billion Dollar Sleeper?

The Joker 2 Rotten Tomatoes Score is now in as the film made its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and is said to have received a 12-minute standing ovation.

The film gets released next month and sees Joaquin Phoenix return as Arthur Fleck, the titular character, with Lady Gaga playing a version of Harley Quinn.

What is the Joker 2 Rotten Tomatoes Score?

With the first forty-three reviews accounted for, the Joker 2 Rotten Tomatoes Score is currently at 60%.

While the score may seem low, fear not, as the critics gave the first Joker a 68% Rotten Tomatoes Score which went on to bring in over a billion dollars at the box office.

The Joker 2 Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score won’t be available until next month. The review aggregator site recently did away with its Audience Score in favor of a new “verified” ratings system where ratings from fans proven to have bought tickets will count.

What are the critics saying about Joker 2?

Here is a selection of the Top Critics reviews:

Fresh: We’re left with the tragedy of a broken man in a world only interested in sensationalism. It’s a big swing for all involved, but all the better for it. – Time Out

Rotten: It begs the question, why is Phillips so reluctant to embrace that the film is a musical? Why not add a little more colour, some flourish to the production design? – Little White Lies

Fresh: As sweet and beguiling a musical romance as it’s possible to have between two murderous psychopaths. Its kooky approach won’t suit all stripes of comic-book fan, but it finds a strange, tragic hopefulness all of its own. – Empire Magazine

Rotten: Where the original Joker remains a stunning exception — that rare blockbuster with emotional shading, grownup themes and a genuine sense of grandeur — this sequel fails to stay on the beat. – Screen International

Fresh: Folie à Deux can’t quite match its predecessor for dizzying impact. But it matches it for horrible tinderbox tension: it’s a film you feel might burst into flames at any given moment. – Daily Telegraph

Rotten: It’s startlingly dull, a pointless procedural that seems to disdain its audience. – Vanity Fair

Fresh: Joker still has a trick up its sleeve — even a serious subtext. The best moment comes late on in an incendiary scene… – Financial Times

Rotten: Folie à Deux simply tap dances in place for the majority of its listless runtime, stringing together a series of underwhelming musical numbers that are either too on the nose… or too vaguely related to its characters to express anything at all. – IndieWire

Fresh: Gaga is a compelling live-wire presence, splitting the difference between affinity and obsession, while endearingly giving Arthur a shot… Their musical numbers, both duets and solos, have a vitality that the more often dour film desperately needs. – THR

Rotten: Phillips and co smashed back into the self-contained world, shook all the contents out on to the carpet and… had another go. The result? Messy, lifeless, derivative and exactly what you’d expect from a film that simply doesn’t want, or need, to exist. – Times UK