Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey
TV-14 | 09 October 2002 (USA)

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    Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
    Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
    Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
    Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
    Smoreni Zmaj Years after Batman left Gotham, trio Birds of Prey takes over his role. They are Huntress - daughter of Batman and Catwoman, Oracle - former Batgirl put in wheelchair by Joker and Dinah - girl with telepathic abilities whose true identity and full potential are to be revealed later. There are also Alfred - Batman's old battler, Jesse - young inspector in love with Huntress, Harley Queen who tries to step in her old boyfriend's shoes and bunch of meta-humans. Show keeps Batman atmosphere while trying to distinguish itself from Batman story. It's not particularly original, but it's fun and holds attention. Acting is quite good and leading girls are beauties. Unfortunately, show is cancelled after first season, but it doesn't end with cliffhanger so I recommend it to DC fans who look for good entertainment.7/10
    JetBlast Just watched this. The best part of this show was Ashley Scott in her little Huntress get-up. The rest of it kinda sucked. I mean come on. This should be the handbook on what superheroes don't do. First no secret identity. Then don't make any friends (aka collateral damage/targets). The best part is the mantra repeated through the series "super heroes don't kill". First, sure they do, second let's review. No the superheroes (using the term loosely here) in this series didn't kill however through there actions the people they knew either suffered or were killed. Batgirl said people close to you dying is a hazard of the job. So what she's telling us is protecting the general public is more important than protecting the people closest to you. Yea OK. Batman was written as a very capable superhero. If Huntress is his daughter I want to see a paternity test because I just don't believe it!!! The characters were just written as too dumb to be good superheros. They simply were not good at their job. Not in protecting their identity and not in the choices they made. The show was written very poorly in my opinion. More like a soap opera, a badly done one at that.
    Clay-Pigeon This series really had a lot going for it. Too bad they couldn't hire better writers. If you saw the first episode then that's all you needed to see because every episode after it was exactly the same. They basically kept recycling the same script over and over again. Introduce lame villain-of-the-week (trust me, they were lame), one of the three girls develops a personal vendetta against the villain, against everyone's wishes she sets out to kill villain on her own, other girls swoop in and save the day, girl with personal vendetta learns her lesson (teamwork and justice not revenge and blah, blah, blah). Lesson learned until the next episode when the exact same thing happens all over again but with a new bad guy. It all got very tiring, very fast. Nothing new ever happened and character development was practically non-existent. Another flaw was that due to pressure from the teen-friendly WB network, the producers were forced to replace one of the characters from the comics with a new teenage character who was so full of angst that you wanted to smack her. She was also worthless. Think Dawn from "Buffy" only more annoying. Based on the premise alone, I really wanted to like this show but I was never given a good enough reason to like it. A wasted effort.
    Dingbat13 Birds of Prey is a wonderful fantasy show for those who wish to believe in superheroes or at least heroes without superpowers. As a child I grew up reading all of those comics-Batman, Batgirl, Superman and Supergirl. All those classic comics are nothing like the new ones except the current ones are more harsh looking with no soft lines. Thus when I saw the advertisement that Birds of Prey was coming on the show, I was elated since it is so rare to see a few super female heroes on TV. It has been mostly male heroes and still is nowadays. I still have the VHS tapes of Birds of Prey from most of the episodes. I missed a few thus I would love to buy a complete set of VHS/DVD of "Birds of Prey" for my collection. Amy