The People's Joker

The DC Extended Universe should take notes. This legally challenged DIY parody is, hands down, the most innovative superhero film of the decade.

Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker is a multihyphenate masterpiece.

The best satire splits the difference between affection and contempt, and the debut of Vera Drew, the comedy writer turned DIY dynamo, is no different.

Original, daring, and definitely not for everyone.

Shot over five days, this very indie movie stars writer-director Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin and borrows liberally from the Batman universe to tell a story of personal discovery.

Savage and sweet – Drew attacks every target from a place of appreciation and experience.

The People’s Joker is a weird one to sit through, but it’ll grow on you like a fungus.

Drew’s radical approach to their coming-of-age trans story is dazzlingly self-assured. It’s a warts-and-all depiction laced with biting humour, sincerity, absurd silliness and rampant DIY creativity from all involved.

Vera Drew uses comic book tropes and characters in a joyous allegory for LGBTQ+ disruption of heteronormative, corporatised societal structures.

This madcap comedy is finally being released, two years after it was made, just in time for some comic relief from the dark direction the world is headed. Amazingly, this crazy, funny movie was released, despite legal problems. I am sure glad it was.