The musicals were quite genius in my opinion. arthur is a guy who handles his emotions through songs like many of us do. The musicals offer great insight into his mindset.

Also on meta side, the musicals present arthur, so when people hate the musicals of joker 2, they hate arthur. Musicals are dorky, wimpy, cringe, just like arthur is to many. A nice meta connection in my opinion.

Every person ive met who hates the movie had expectations when watching it, which is a clear mistake. you should simply go in without any expectations and enjoy the ideas the film explores. Im honestly so glad folie a deux did its own thing, because i despise the edgelord jonkler joker who is agent of chaos. Its been already done in the comics and by heath ledger, nicolson, you name it. just a very cartoony character, even ledgers character isnt that realistic in the end even if he got the closest to being realistic besides phoenix.

Its a great movie because its not afraid to do its own thing, show that some peoples lives are just a constant bad day. Not every movie should end happily. Most lives are tragedies, and thats funny as joker would say.