Joker: Folie à Deux has officially fallen farther than any other comic book movie in at least one noteworthy metric. The hype surrounding the once-highly anticipated sequel to 2019’s Joker has been on a steady decline ever since the initial,

Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” is finally in theaters to turn that frown upside down, only to turn it upside down again. The sequel, which self-destructs not only itself but also the original 2019 film as a casualty, works better as an idea than in execution as a movie.

So far, audiences have been ripping the sequel apart on Rotten Tomatoes, and critics aren't high the Joker follow-up either. On top of all that, Todd Phillips’ musical movie is heading for a very disappointing showing at the box office.

Joker: Folie a Deux is a massive miss of a sequel, a black mark for DC and what is likely to be a box office failure with an inexplicably bloated budget. But now? It’s set a full-on record. A bad one.