It’s not generally nice to make fun of people, but in terms of a parody of Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do by Harley Quinn, you can’t help but laugh. It helps to think of it not so much as making fun of Taylor Swift but really more of a good laugh at Batman and the Joker via Harley Quinn. It’s also a chance for adolescent boys and grown men to drool since the female cosplayer is rather good-looking and, um, in very good shape. As far as the singing goes she’s got it down just about perfect, and as for the Joker he really doesn’t have to do anything but stand there and look nutty.
So how much do people love Harley Quinn? She seems to pop up randomly now that Suicide Squad’s been kind of relegated to another less than stellar attempt by the DCEU to revive the brand and make it something that can top Marvel. Honestly I kind of liked the movie but there a few false starts in it that didn’t really help develop the story or really take it in an interesting direction. Mostly it had to do with the strange fantasy shots, the flashbacks that kept coming and going, and the strange way that each character was eventually developed right before the fight scenes came on and got going in full.
Harley Quinn was, for all accounts, the dangerously crazy sex object that she’s been in the comics for so long, and the Joker was, well, way more over the top than he’s ever been which is probably why people had such an issue with him. Jared Leto might be a great actor but there are some roles he kind of just goes a little too far. When you can make someone playing Harley Quinn seem sane by comparison then yeah, your mind has gone far away from any known map. As a pair though the two of them are still something special to watch, even if you only get to see them together for a short amount of time.
They’re like the power couple of the DCEU. No one else can even come close to them in how effective they’ve been together, or how destructive. There’s no one that can really top them for their over the moon psycho vibes, and despite not having any superpowers of their own they’ve held up quite nicely against heroes and other villains that are easily their match or greater. They’re so unpredictable that trying to pin them down is like trying to hold smoke. Even when a hero does get them down it’s only temporary, and all because the heroes typically won’t pull the trigger and end something that they know will continue. Well, there was that one time that Superman put his fist through the Joker’s chest though….
Anyway, the parody of Taylor Swift isn’t the nuttiest thing these two have ever done but it’s certainly fun to watch. The kind of mayhem they represent is usually pretty disturbing to think about but kind of fun to watch.
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