In PEOPLE's review, critic Tom Gliatto wrote that Folie à Deux is "turgid with misery, it’s basically the jukebox musical from hell." On Rotten Tomatoes, the average among over

"Joker: Folie á Deux" flopped at the box office on opening weekend as the sequel took an approach that seemingly appealed to no one.

Folie a Deux" tallied just $40 million in domestic ticket sales during its opening weekend. It's predecessor, "Joker" earned $96.2 million during its domestic opening in 2019. While the first film had a modest budget of $65 million and topped $1 billion at the global box office,