Joker: Folie à Deux” is the No. 1 movie at the box office, but it might not be destined for a happy ending. In a turn of events that only Arthur Fleck would find funny, the follow-up to Todd Phillips’ 2019 origin story about the Batman villain opened in theaters nationwide this weekend to a muted $40 million,

"Joker: Folie á Deux" flopped at the box office on opening weekend as the sequel took an approach that seemingly appealed to no one.

In PEOPLE's review, critic Tom Gliatto wrote that Folie à Deux is "turgid with misery, it’s basically the jukebox musical from hell." On Rotten Tomatoes, the average among over