Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
February 5, 2020 in theaters
Freshly separated from the Joker and newly vulnerable, Harley Quinn forms an unlikely alliance with Huntress, Black Canary, and a police detective to protect a young pickpocket who has swallowed evidence a powerful crime boss needs recovered. The film expands the Gotham underworld introduced in Suicide Squad around an ensemble of DC's female characters.
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QUOTE
"The thing about being Harley Quinn is... everybody wants a piece of ya."
-- Harley Quinn
DID YOU KNOW?
Margot Robbie was both star and producer, shepherding the project from concept through release.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
Birds of Prey is the DCEU's most formally playful film — a fractured, self-aware narrative that uses Harley Quinn's unreliable perspective to justify structural choices the franchise had never attempted. Margot Robbie's performance is looser and more specifically funny than her earlier appearances allowed, and the ensemble of women assembled around her is distinctive and well-cast. The action choreography in the final act is among the DCEU's most inventive, and the film's refusal to take itself seriously is precisely calibrated. Its commercial underperformance relative to its quality remains one of the more puzzling outcomes in recent franchise history.
PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
Where this fits in the larger story
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) sits within the modern DC connected-film era, where heroes, antiheroes, and government forces begin reshaping the public world. It connects individual character arcs with the larger consequences of metahumans becoming visible across the planet. Its placement helps viewers follow the DCEU-era continuity while recognizing how each title adds a different corner to DC's screen mythology.
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