While the Birds of Prey, or rather a variant of them, are introduced, it isn’t their movie, nor their stories, which makes my issues with the title stand firm. ![]() While this works extremely well, keeping the scattered plot in line with one of the most notoriously manic characters in the DC canon, it also brings my only gripe with the film. Birds of Prey uses Harley as narrator to hold the story together, jumping from past to present, character to character, it’s her story. With Margot Robbie narrating, the opening scene served as a reclaiming of the character from the disastrous Suicide Squad variation. Opening up with an animated history of Harleen Quinzel, this movie started as the perfect primer for the character that has become a DC staple since stepping into the Joker’s shadow in Batman: The Animated Series. Her Ph.D., her trouble with love, and everything else were laid out in front of the audience in a quick and fun way that even though it was exposition, you didn’t lose attachment. Couple it in with a year of bad fight choreography for women in 2019 with Charlie’s Angelsand Captain Marvel, I was apprehensive when I sat down to watch Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. I’m going to be honest, while I love Harley Quinn in Bruce Timm’s work and most of the comics, I didn’t like Margot Robbie’s first live-action appearance.
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