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Birds of prey harley quinn review1/1/2024 Even Todd Phillips’ risky R-rated origin myth “Joker,” starring Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix as a mentally ill chaos agent, turned into a $1 billion global home run.Īnd then there’s the film formerly known as “ Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” a title that distanced itself from the DC film that introduced Margot Robbie as Quinn, 2016 box-office smash “Suicide Squad” ($746 million worldwide, with its own James Gunn reboot in the works for 2021). "If you found yourself internally screaming for Ryan Reynolds to shut the hell up during Deadpool, then the relentless, zany narration of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn will likely send you gibbering and ruined towards the emergency exit after, oh, 23 seconds.Usually, when a studio greenlights a comic-book spin-off, it’s as close to sure-fire as you can get. But you can feel the feverish stress of the calculus it is constantly performing with regard to morality and, maybe more important, likability." The film is a hard R, mostly due to violence as well as language and the fact that Harley powers up for a fight by happily, if accidentally, indulging in some blow. "It never settles on how f**ked-up it wants its fucked-up protagonist to be. It’s just a terrible thing to inflict on audiences, who, after all, didn’t hurt anyone and just hoped to have a nice time." She certainly shouldn’t have starred in it. Margot Robbie shouldn’t have produced it. The screenplay should never have been filmed. Money should never have been raised for it. is a giddy treat of an R-rated comic-book movie, borrowing elements from inspirations as disparate as 9 to 5, Bugs Bunny and Modesty Blaise to create an adventure that tweaks its genre familiarity with delightful bursts of anarchy and wit. The film’s various elements work in wonderful concert to keep the momentum brisk but still grounded in a stylized version of human empathy." It’s nice to see a joker who doesn’t take herself too seriously." It works because we haven’t seen this story a thousand times before, and because it leaves behind the grim-dark posturing of Suicide Squad. Birds of Prey isn’t interested in hitting all the usual superhero movie beats. "lets her heroine’s mania guide her through a story that’s scrappy, weird and ultimately fun as hell. It’s all as tasty, chewy and disposable as bubble gum." "Birds of Prey light on psychology and devoid of prestige, it’s a slab of R-rated hard candy that refuses to take anything, least of all itself, too seriously. The movie also has a punky, washed-out look and harks back to a lot of long-gone pop culture: Harley looks like a No Doubt-era Gwen Stefani, and her run-down fun-house lair is a dead ringer for the villain’s hunting ground in The Man With the Golden Gun." really is the funniest comic book film since the first Deadpool from 2016. moves at a breakneck pace with a dry, totally unsentimental sense of humor, and it never gets caught up in cliched morals or weighty lessons. Yan's film is filled with fourth wall breaks, meta-voiceover from Harley, and ridiculous antics coupled with a pretty thin plot, which means it might not be for everyone. Rather than being outright raves, the positive reviews mostly fall down on the side of appreciating Birds of Prey for what it is: good, dirty fun. While Birds of Prey's 89% (as of the time of writing) score on Rotten Tomatoes suggests an uncontested win, the reviews are actually more mixed than the simple number suggests. Related: Birds Of Prey Debuted With Second-Highest DCEU Rotten Tomatoes Score
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