Mel Valentin
1 min readFeb 8, 2020

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Birds of Prey (and the Fantabalous Emancipation of Harley Quinn) Delivers Ultra-Violent Excess Along With an Anti-Patriarchy Message

Finally, the gang’s all here. Now let’s prey.

Little positive came out of 2016’s inexplicably popular Suicide Squad, Warner Bros./ DC’s dubious attempt to commercially exploit second-, third-, and fourth-tier no-name comic-book characters with the exception of Margot Robbie’s live-wire portrayal of co-creators Paul Dini and Bruce Timm’s singular peroxide-blonde, pig-tailed creation…