Rotten Tomatoes Reviews For Birds of Prey Are In

Birds of Prey is soaring to new heights.

Just before its release this Friday, director Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is earning rave reviews from critics, whose responses have been officially recorded on Rotten Tomatoes - and it's become clear that critics truly enjoyed their time with Harley Quinn and her gang of misfits. As of Thursday, February 6, Birds of Prey holds an excellent 89 percent approval rating on the review aggregator site.

With Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie leading Birds of Prey as Harley, the role she first played in 2016's Suicide Squad, the film puts the colorful criminal's narrative firmly in her own hands, telling the story of Harley's alliance with several other powerful women to save a young girl named Cassandra Cain from the wicked Black Mask and his psychotic sidekick Victor Zsasz. Joining Harley to form the Birds of Prey gang are Huntress, Renee Montoya, and Black Canary.

As one of the most anticipated films of the first half of 2020 and another entry into the female superhero canon, Birds of Prey is seemingly set to follow in the footsteps of critical successes like fellow DCEU flick Wonder Woman and the MCU's Captain Marvel – which is certainly encouraging as comic book studios start to create more diverse stories for all types of fans. And, according to Rotten Tomatoes, those fans are over the moon. The general critical consensus on Birds of Prey so far seems to be that above all else, the movie is just plain ol' fun.

Over at Time Out, Helen O'Hara opened her review by saying the, quote, "story [is] scrappy, weird, and ultimately fun as hell." She went on to conclude:

"Birds of Prey isn't interested in hitting all the usual superhero movie beats. It works because we haven't seen this story a thousand times before, and because it leaves behind the grim-dark posturing of Suicide Squad. It's nice to see a joker who doesn't take herself too seriously."

Meanwhile, Culture Whisper's Ella Kemp wrote:

"Birds of Prey fizzes with madness, violence, and blistering fun. Harley Quinn has always been an agent of chaos - which is why her and the Joker were so well-suited - and her standalone film lets this madness run wild from the off."

Owen Gleiberman of Variety praised director Cathy Yan for her keen eye and good taste in music. He wrote:

"Directing her first studio feature, Cathy Yan keeps it all hurtling along with impeccable ferocity. Her action scenes have a deftly detonating visual spaciousness, capped by crowd-pleasing moments like the one where Harley, brandishing a baseball bat, ricochets it off the ground with perfect slow-mo timing. And Yan sprinkles just the right songs [...] through what feels like a music-video comic-book jamboree, one that effectively taps into timely undercurrents of feminine rage." Keep watching the video to see that Rotten Tomatoes Reviews For Birds of Prey Are In.

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