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Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn - Movie Review

Live vs Animated

I so wish Warner Brothers and DC would reboot the entire DCU live action movies. They need to get the writers and producers from animated movies to do the live action movies. I recently watched Superman: Red Son which was a far better movie than Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. WB/DC produce the best animated movies but their live action movies with the exceptions of Wonder Woman and Aquaman have been okay at best. A few are almost good when you watch their extended versions. Birds of Prey did not have an extended version,

Review

The story line looked good from the trailer but that is where it ended. The female cast were great. The story and dialog ruined the whole movie with the exception of two scenes that equaled about 10-15 minutes of the movie. These two scenes and the cast could not save this movie from being possibly the worse DCU movie to date. 

Ewan McGregor's character and dialog were horrible. I believe it was meant so that you would dislike the character but it did far worse. I am not saying Ewan did a bad job. I am saying the writers gave him crap to work with. I stepped out for a minute while the movie was playing and did not feel the need to pause or rewind to see what I missed so there could be possibly a few minutes more from an additional scene that might be good. I may never know as I have no desire to see what I missed.

I neglected to mention this appears to be DC's attempt to duplicate Marvel's Deadpool style movie. The movie might have been better as a PG-13 language movie then the writers might have had to come up with good dialogue for the characters,

Rating

I give this a low SD movie. If you have any desire to watch this movie, I recommend renting it. I ended up getting my HD copy from UltraCloudHD for $11.

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