Dressed like a demented cheerleader, she gets closure by driving an oil truck into the ACME Chemical refinery she and the Clown Prince of Crime first got together at, blowing it sky-high. Altering the famous history that creators Paul Dini and Bruce Timm carved out for the character in DC’s one-shot comic The Batman Adventures: Mad Love, Harley is dumped by Joker (who’s never seen here) after years of being stuck in an abusive relationship. The movie opens with a nifty animated sequence that re-caps her story so far (coz, God forbid anyone revisits Suicide Squad), reminding us that this crazed lunatic once had the smarts, earning a Ph.D. Taking its cues from Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool films, BoP is told non-linearly through voice-over by our fourth wall breaking lead Harleen Quinzel, who recounts the tale of her emancipation and the women who inadvertently helped her along the way. However, for a flick trying pretty darn hard to distance itself from Jared Leto’s Joker incarnation and the DCEU’s mangled Suicide Squad (2016), Birds of Prey winds up being fraught by most of the same problems. Directed by Cathy Yan, in her first studio project, Birds of Prey is at its best when it’s letting Margot Robbie’s tattooed anti-heroine Harley Quinn (who made her first appearance in Batman: The Animated Series in 1992) do her thing, essentially being set loose like a rouge firecracker to wreak havoc in Gotham City. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)īirds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a messy, anarchic, and uneven punk-y girl-power romp.
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