Lady Gaga & Joaquin Phoenix's awkward reaction to Joker: Folie à Deux

A video of Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix's awkward reaction after they were asked to share their thoughts on Joker: Folie à Deux has gone viral amid the immense backlash that the film is facing.

The highly anticipated Joker sequel hit theaters on Friday, but immediately, it was fiercely panned by viewers and critics alike.

Amid the scrutiny, a clip of Lady Gaga and Joaquin discussing the film has taken over the web.

While chatting with Good Morning Britain last week, the two stars were asked if the movie turned out to be 'everything they expected.'

Immediately, they both turned to look at one another and smiled. 

For a few seconds, the two stars sat in silence as they both waited for the other to answer the question.

'Tell them how you feel, Joaquin,' Lady Gaga, 38, said to her costar as she held out a fake microphone in front of him.

'It's so hard to talk about but I think we feel like we achieved what we set out to do,' Joaquin, 49, simply stated. 

Someone on X, formerly Twitter, posted the moment online last week and it went viral, gaining more then 437,000 views in a matter of days - and many users took their initial silence as proof that they 'didn't like' the film.

The internet has been flooded with negative posts about the flick ever since it premiered, with one user branding it as a 'bore' and another claiming it had 'no plot.'

Many social media users have also slammed the movie's final scene, which saw main character Arthur Fleck (portrayed by Joaquin) brutally stabbed to death by a fellow inmate.

This meant that the man that audiences had been watching over the course of the two movies was never the Joker at all, but in fact, the infamous villain from the Batman series was really just the random inmate who killed Arthur in the last moments of the film.

The shocking twist left numerous viewers unsatisfied, and they took to social media to share their frustration.

'The ending made the movie a complete waste,' one outraged user wrote. 

'The ending was pathetic,' scathed someone else. 'WTF you mean no Joker?' 

'The ending made no sense,' added another person. 

'That ending? It's so bad that not only it ruins Joker 2 but also the first Joker for the audience,' read a fourth tweet.

'The Joker had so much potential but that f**king ending ruined everything,' a fifth said. 

The Todd Phillips-directed musical serves as a follow-up to the 2019 box office hit, which was simply titled Joker. 

The first film grossed over $1 billion and at the time was the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. It received 11 Oscar nominations - two of which it won. 

The sequel, however, has already been much less successful. It had a lackluster $40 million debut at the box office in its first weekend, and has a low rating of 33 percent and 31 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

'Undoing much of the goodwill from its predecessor, the sequel convolutes what could have been a unique character study into a bloated encore that goes out with a whimper,' reads one review. 

Another critic wrote, 'This movie is a disjointed mess and a waste of time. It's just tired, not particularly interesting, but it does look good from a production design standpoint.'