Birds of prey dc movie release date6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() There are flashbacks within flashbacks and comedy title-cards (“4 Minutes Ago”) but the time-shifting dissipates momentum in the middle stretch - you never get the sense that Yan, whose only previous feature is absurdist satire Dead Pigs, has a firm grip on the narrative. It’s so much fun when the group finally come together, it feels like a misstep not getting them together sooner. The film sets up the question of who is Harley without Mr J? The answer lies with a motley crew of diverse women. Quickly recapping the events of Suicide Squad in animated form, we quickly learn Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Joker have broken up - she publically updates her relationship status by driving a truck into Ace Chemicals, the plant where she pledged herself to the clown prince of crime - and the film frenetically establishes her trying to cope on her own buying a hyena she calls Bruce (after Wayne), roller derbying, her partying antics captured in one long shot like a coked-up 1917. It’s a moving-on-after-a-break-up movie, a Marriage Story with punch-ups. Perhaps the first rug-pull is that it isn’t strictly a Birds Of Prey flick at all. It doesn’t all work, but it’s a gaudy, muddled, mostly entertaining glitter-grenade celebration of just how women can fuck shit up. ![]() Because Birds Of Prey not only shares the DNA of a girl gang who can kick your sorry ass - Cathy Yan’s film also boasts some of the subversive and rockabilly spirit of QT’s ’94 classic. ![]() It’s a particularly apt part-time alias for Robbie’s passion project, the first big-screen outing for DC’s all-women superhero squad. For the uninitiated, ‘Fox Force Five’ is Mia Wallace’s ( Uma Thurman) never-aired TV pilot in Pulp Fiction concerning five female secret agents each with a distinct identity and skill - a knife thrower, a kung fu master, a demolition expert and a French girl whose “speciality was sex”. It remains to be seen if Birds of Prey will come close to earning the kind of critical and commercial receptions those other two movies did, but at least by coming out earlier in the year, it has a better chance of standing out.At the behest of star and producer Margot Robbie, the working title for (deep breath) Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn) was ‘Fox Force Five’. summer and November/December, as Deadpool and Black Panther showed us, people will come out in droves for the right kind of adventure starring costumed protagonists in February. While superhero movies are normally associated with traditional blockbuster released periods, i.e. ![]() It was first announced that Birds of Prey was in development in November 2016, but once Cathy Yan was hired to direct last April, then the project really started picking up steam. Birds of Prey is much better off enticing people into theaters a week earlier, as the only other major movies currently scheduled for that date is Peter Rabbit 2 and The Loud House. Bond 25 was recently moved from Novemto Februafter director Cary Fukunaga was hired to replace Danny Boyle, and the other competition that opening weekend includes an untitled live action Disney movie and Legally Blonde 3. Originally Warner Bros had the February 14 date of that year reserved, but now the studio is delivering Birds of Prey a week earlier, and that's probably for the best. Arriving just three months after Wonder Woman 1984, Birds of Prey will kick off the DCEU in 2020, per THR. ![]()
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