A movie with a tenuous grasp on linear time. Narration that moves the story forwards, backwards, sideways. Like the Deadpool movies before it, Birds of Prey's creative team uses Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as a template. What's Birds of Prey like then? Good question. Harley without Joker, well, all those people she's pissed off over the years, they're coming for her. Harley with Joker is invincible, untouchable. After an hysterical animated exposition dump where we learn that Harley has dumped Joker, the movie begins with Harley keeping that little factoid a secret. What's Birds of Prey about? Well, it's about the fantabulous emancipation of one Harley Quinn. I can't think of another film as bad as Suicide Squad having a sequel as good as Birds of Prey. If Birds of Prey really is a follow-up to Suicide Squad it might be the single greatest sequel trick in over a hundred years of film history. Where Suicide Squad barely qualifies as a movie, Birds of Prey is everything that is good and fun about movies. But where Suicide Squad was everything that could be wrong about a movie, Birds of Prey is everything right.
Birds of Prey is a kind of, sort of follow-up to Suicide Squad. I really don't want to talk about Suicide Squad but I think I have to. This is the kind of movie that has a loveable pet hyena and the loveable pet hyena is one of the more sane decisions. The film starts at 11 and keeps it up right to the end, careening into corners and towards the edge with no brakes. Thompson's blood and dropping it on some celluloid and seeing what happens. It's the film equivalent of taking Lemmy quantities of speed. it's completely bonkers and deranged and psychotic and unhinged. It's almost as much fun as a dozen Golden Lab puppies. Let's get this out of the way upfront, first and foremost, and most importantly, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is dump trucks full of fun. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
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