Todd Phillips' sequel, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, doesn't respect the musical genre — and it paid the price with critics and audiences alike.

Nevertheless, Folie à Deux ’s $121 million global haul has pushed Phoenix’s career box office past the $2.1 billion mark. Exactly half of that amount has come from the first Joker film, which became a box office sensation in 2019 with a lifetime haul of over $1 billion.

Not even Lady Gaga could save the anti-hero musical drama, which reportedly earned a bleak domestic opening of $40 million in domestic ticket sales