Here's the link for "Birds of Prey" at the Internet Movie Database -
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0312098
And here's what someone who saw the pilot said:
I just saw the pilot and this show is exactly why comic books get a bad rap by mainstream audiences. It's a godawful campy mess that seems more appropriate for some Saturday afternoon syndicated time slot than Wed. at 9 for the WB. The tone wildly jumps from lame jokes to melodrama. The three leads (Meyer, Scott, and Rachel something) have just as many good moments as bad, and might be fine with better writing, ditto Shemar Moore as the cop. But Sherilyn Fenn turns in her worst performance ever as Harley Quinn and Seinfeld's Mr. Pitt plays Alfred as if he were John Waters recovering from a stroke.
Also, since it is significantly different from the comic on which it's based, the title makes no sense anymore. Dinah is no longer Black Canary, so why are they referred to as Birds of Prey? None of them are birds or have bird names? And while changing it a lot from the comic, they actually made the series more entrenched in comic mythology than the actual comic is(Batman and Catwoman have a kid here, Harley Quinn being Joker's sidekick). That was a real smart move in adapting it for another medium.
This is just bad. Unfunny, bad CGI, lame dialogue, and the worst representations of Batman and Joker ever on screen. Just picture the Schumacher's Batman & Robin, Charmed, and All My Children thrown into a blender (and having none of the fun cheesy joys of Charmed or All My Children). Hopefully it will be canceled fast.
