One individual pressures another to pay for something with sexual favours. Sexual Content: An animated segment shows cartoon insemination. An entire family, including children, is massacred by gangsters. People are shot through the throat with arrows. An individual’s face is cut off in front of their family. Violence: People are beaten (both with fists and an assortment of other objects), hit by cars, shot, stabbed, and set on fire. Why is Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quin rated R? Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quin is rated R by the MPAA for strong violence and language throughout, and some sexual and drug material. Starring Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth-Winstead, and Ewan McGregor.īirds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quin Rating & Content Info But Birds of Prey just didn’t feel fantabulous to me. I’m sure there are people who would enjoy this movie more than I did, and they’ll be more than a little upset with me for missing the high spots. It could be that the movie is far funnier than I’m giving it credit for, and the jokes just missed me. Better yet, the cast is clearly having fun throughout. When it comes to narration, less is more.Īll that said, there is some chaotic fun to be had for adult viewers who aren’t offended by the content issues, and there are some solid “girl power” messages going on. Also slowing the film is Harley’s overly prevalent narration, which was so incessant I began tuning it out. The movie is oddly unbalanced, with a first act that gets shown twice from different perspectives, which makes for an interesting narrative device and a brutal case of second-act drag. While Margot Robbie is wonderful, swinging insanely between frighteningly deranged and delightfully creepy (she’s mastered this very deliberate way of blinking, which is highly unsettling), it isn’t quite enough. Viewers with photosensitivity or epilepsy should also be aware of a very intense strobe scene around the middle of the film. And while Deadpool found some humor in excessive violence, it’s hard to get a laugh out of a man’s face being cut off in front of his family. In this case, however, the sexual content is less focused on crude jokes (though those are still present) and more on dangerous male characters acting rape-y. Like Deadpool, Birds of Prey overdoses on profanity, violence, and sexual content. I’m just pointing out that this movie is going for a similar angle. I’m not faulting Birds of Prey for this, since basically all comic book adaptations sound alike when broken into their constituent components. If you boil this plot right down, it sounds a lot like Deadpool 2 - reluctant anti-hero protects tough street kid against her better judgement, is drawn into dangerous situation, and learns something about the value of friendship and teamwork. Unwilling to see the younger girl harmed, Harley will have to team up with some of the other femme fatales stalking Gotham’s streets. The thief? A teenage girl named Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco). To save her skin, she strikes a deal with one of the people trying to kill her, Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor), who agrees not to kill her if she recovers a diamond which was recently stolen from him. With him out of the picture, Harley is on the run from both criminals and law enforcement officers. She broke up with her boyfriend (a notorious crime lord), blew up a chemical factory, and learned that the only reason half of Gotham City wasn’t trying to kill her was the aforementioned boyfriend. Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) isn’t having a good week.
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