Luckily, Harley gets over him just about as quickly as we do, blowing up the Ace Chemicals plant, dusting herself off, and trying to start a new life as a bounty hunter/mercenary/thug for hire. Good, great, we hated Leto’s version of the Clown Prince of Crime anyway, get rid of him. ![]() Now, with Birds of Prey, Robbie’s Quinn is given a vehicle worthy of her talents, a manically gleeful girl-power anthem that’s just as energetic and irreverent as she is.Īs Birds of Prey (sorry, Birds of Prey: or the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) begins, the Joker’s broken up with Harley. The one bright spot though? Margot Robbie‘s semi-Gothic-Lolita reinterpretation of the Joker’s moll Harleen Quinzel (aka Harley Quinn), a brash, madcap figure imbued with scene-stealing energy by one of the greatest actors of her generation. To be fair, David Ayer’s overstuffed, underlit supervillain team-up came right at the wrong time: the product of post- Avengers superhero mania, but amidst the polarizing reactions to DCEU’s so-called ‘dark, gritty’ approach to superheroes, it was the victim of a compromised vision of what was undoubtedly a bad idea in the first place - reshoots, changes in tone, a final cut engineered by the house that did the trailers, etc. ![]() If you’d have told me two years ago that not only would I be looking forward to a sequel (such as it is) to 2015’s murky, execrable Suicide Squad, but I’d end up really enjoying it, I’d have banished you to the darkest cell in Arkham Asylum. ![]() The DCEU embraces its inner Bugs Bunny, and is all the better for it.
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