The Penguin poster of Oz Cobb in the rain and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker with a white suit in the shadows in Folie a Deux
The Penguin shows just how to get a villain story right, which the other high-profile recent DC release, Joker: Folie à Deux, did not. The Batman has become one of the Dark Knight's best films. Due to the movie's success, director Matt Reeves received carte blanche to develop spinoffs and build out the world of his franchise. The Penguin's cast of characters is led by Colin Farrell's return as Oz Cobb, and the villain thrives as the protagonist for a change.
9 The Penguin Is As Interested In The World As It Is In The Story The Show's Gotham City Feels Alive Close Gotham City is integral to The Penguin. The HBO series does a great job of making the iconic comic book location feel like a character in its own right, which The Batman had also achieved before.
✕ Remove Ads 7 The Penguin Has Impactful Action Scenes Joker: Folie À Deux Offers Few Thrills Close Joker: Folie à Deux seemed like it was embarrassed to be a comic book movie, and reports about director Todd Phillips confirm that he was never interested in that label. After presenting the Joker's rise in the first film, the sequel delivered a more psychological story.
✕ Remove Ads Joker: Folie à Deux does the opposite. The first Joker film worked perfectly as a self-contained story. There was simply no need for a sequel other than to try to repeat the original's major box office. Joker's ending worked as the birth of the Batman villain, but in making a sequel, DC put out a flimsy story that failed to excite and ended up tearing down what the first film accomplished.
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