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I like musicals and still think it was pretty bad. It's a jukebox musical which are usually bad anyway.
Almost none of the songs move the story forward. Most of them are just we are in love numbers. You get one maybe two of those a musical.
Joaquin Phoenix is a good actor and a terrible singer. Lady Gaga is a good singer and terrible actor. So every scene with them both has one of them doing a bad job.
I liked that the songs marked the "imagined" sequences. There was no singing in the things that really happened.
I decided to skip Joker 2 once I heard it was a musical (and then I heard the reviews were bad).
You got me curious about Phoenix's singing so I looked up some clips on YouTube.
You were right, it's not good. Not good at all.