Joker 2 will go down in comic book movie history as one of its biggest – and most surprising – flops.
With the original having grossed over $1 billion dollars at the box office, Joaquin Phoenix's Clown Prince of Crime returned for a sequel that sidestepped much of the angsty grittiness that proved so popular and, in its place, turned into a prison-set musical starring Lady Gaga that rejected the very notion of the Joker persona.
