Folie À Deux because the sequel's Rotten Tomatoes score has dipped again and its current Audience Score is even worse. You can find more details after the

Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel bringing back Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck under Phillips' direction, isn't even out in theaters yet, but its Rotten Tomatoes score keeps dropping. After its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival,

Joker: Folie à Deux divided critics once more in the first reviews out of the Venice Film Festival last month, but it seems now that more people are leaning hard into the negative, as – following its debut at 60% – Joker: Folie à Deux now has a rotten rating of 39% on review aggregate site, Rotten Tomatoes.

Joker: Folie à Deux has received a soft Rotten Tomatoes rating ahead of its release. The highly anticipated sequel to Todd Phillips' huge 2019 hit releases this week, and from all the critic reviews aggregated by the site, only 54% of them are positive.

As it arrives in theaters this week, the Rotten Tomatoes score for Joker: Folie à Deux has significantly plummeted in comparison to the first film.

Furthermore, while it does continue the story of Arthur Fleck following the events of the first movie, Todd Phillips doesn’t see Joker: Folie à Deux as a sequel. Audience member Brian B. says he was distracted by the music, and he’s not buying any of the conjecture that it’s not a musical, writing:

Joker: Folie à Deux is a movie horrified by its predecessor, horrified by its success, its maddening cowardice to pick a lane, its public misinterpretation forged into perverse celebration of a lunatic with a bone to pick.