MatinÃ©e worthy, not date worthy

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2016)

I really wanted to like this movie because I'm a fan of the "summer blockbuster" genre. Never having read the comics, I was aware of the characters simply because of their impact on pop culture but not the minute details that a fan of the comics would be. I guess I'm the target audience age wise, being in my early 40s and having grown up with Harley Quinn/Mr. J/Batman animated series. The plot is good in concept but junky in execution. It jumps and never really seems to become a cohesive story-line. So many characters are there that it's hard to really latch onto them as individual pieces and you just have to accept they are there. Grossly underdeveloped and becoming caricatures of even themselves, the movie never really draws you in ... most glaring example of this is Harley Quinn. She is less "free spirit" and more "doll with her strings cut". All in all, it was worth the price of popcorn but I don't know that it would be a group or a date movie. It never really draws you in, never holds your attention and plunks along for 2.5 hours. Wait for it to stream somewhere ...