![]() ![]() ![]() Her association with the Joker keeps her protected from Gotham's worst, and she is unwilling to give up that protection, until one day she hears her roller derby friends mocking her fixation with the Clown Prince of Crime. Wallowing in misery and trying to find out who she is outside of her psychopathic lover, Harley sloppily engages in all the usual breakout rituals: cutting her hair, joining a roller derby team, going out partying at the local mob-owned dive, breaking thugs' legs - doing everything but telling people that she and the Joker are broken up. The beginning of Birds of Prey finds Harley Quinn broken up with the Joker and kicked out of his gang. Margot Robbie's breakout character from Suicide Squad finally gets a movie all to her own, and despite its title, Birds of Prey is very much Harley's movie. But mostly, it's having too much of a blast to notice. A pulpy, kaleidoscopic funhouse ride that feels simultaneously high-stakes and low-stakes all at once, Birds of Prey is as cheeky, irreverent, and erratic as its central character, Harley Quinn - to both its benefit and its detriment. Birds of Prey just wants to have fun, and damn to hell anyone who won't let it. ![]()
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