Customer Ratings & Reviews

One of the worst superhero adaptations ever. The DVD case was damaged as well.

Good show with strong female characters as the leads. Fans of Ashley Scott will enjoy her performance as Huntress. She is a kick butt hero that makes no excuses for how she does things. Dina Meyer as Batgirl/Oracle gives really good performances also. Its not just female characters though, you also have Shemar Moore playing a police detective and Shawn Christian as a school teacher. The box is also cool. All the discs are in one box that you open and flip through, instead of one or two discs per individual container like alot of DVD box sets. It takes up a lot less space on the shelf. All in all a really good buy.

Great show that aired on the WB back in 2002/2003. Unfortunately it wasn't given it's proper room to grow and ultimately the shows wings were clipped. As per usual with DVDs, most of the songs have been replaced such as the theme song and the "Finale Fight Song" which come as major disappointments to fans. Also, the episodes are presented in Letterbox format. It's 2008, not 1998. Though lasting only 13 episodes, this show was much beloved by fans. A great buy overall.

This was in the era of women adventure stars. So we had children of the Bat roaming the city and carrying on the tradition. Some early performance by some pretty good actresses. Ashley Scott and Dina Meyer are most notable. This is definitely a bit on the dark side. Not as Dark as the current hit film, but not comic Batman. And the unusual skills the young women have are interesting. If you caught the original series you'll want to have it. If you didn't you'll enjoy this peek into the past.

As a long-standing fan (since #1) of the DC series "Birds of Prey", I feel I need to voice my thoughts about the commercially-failed "Birds of Prey" TV show, which seems to be getting some traction in the DVD market. I'll break down my review in three sections: the characters, the acting and the stories. As far as characters go, the original idea was to group some Batman-related heroines under a bigger umbrella since they could not sustain self-titled series. The show keeps that promise, but save for Barbara Gordon, the rest of the cast has been "stylishly adapted to TV" at best. Huntress used to be the rightful, strong-willed daughter of an Italian mafia boss who sent herself on a rampage as (try to guess) her family was killed in front of her (yes, again!). Now she is the meta-human (what?) daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman. This is all wrong. In the show, she is strong, arrogant and scorching (all these from mom). But why meta-human? Her eyes go feline when she gets excited and she is super-fast and very resistant. Now, part of the charm of both Batman and Catwoman was both were perfectly human, and their achievements were coming from pain invested into training. Barbara G. is the most similar character to her DC pages' counterpart. But, Dinah, oh Dinah... what did they do to you? In comics, Dinah has arguably the strongest female personality of the DC Universe. She is mature (over 30), opinionated, very competent when it comes hand to hand (Barbara told her once that she would not be surprised if she could take Batman down), not intimidated by either guys or other gals, charming, and yes... meta-human. She can shriek and blow your eardrums out of your ears. And yes, she wears ridiculous fishnets that would never work in TV. Now enter the new Dinah Lance. She is a teenager! And the type who goes to a lonesome Gotham alley because some dude who she just met told her to! And moans all the time! And clingy! In summary, they butchered a worthwhile character just to appease a potential teenager fan-base. Anyway, I would be ready to overlook all these and enjoy this show as an What-If/ Elseworlds type if not for other major flaws (see below). Other characters include Alfred Pennyworth, who's adequately portrayed, and Dr. Harlene Quinzel (later Harley Quinn), a psychotic psychiatrist who treated the Joker and ended up as his girlfriend/aide. She is another train wreck. In comics, she was clingy and co-dependent of Mr. J., and utterly incapable of devising a grand scheme to dominate Gotham, especially because she would never be interested in something so pedestrian. Ashley Scott plays Helena Kyle (Huntress). Make up and character makes her a crossover between Rhona Mitra in Doomsday and Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider, which is not necessarily bad. (Did I mention she is scorching?) Her acting is okay and she does what she can with a flawed character. Dina Meyer is dead-on perfect; I would recast her as Barbara G. in a motion picture, should she be appearing in one. As for Rachel Skarsten (Dinah), well, it is not her fault, but on top of everything, she is pouty, cheeky and does not add anything to a horrible character. Mia Sara is intriguing as Harley Quinn, and the rest of the cast is okay. The show storylines are quite unappealing despite having very good starting material. Run of the mill villains and uninspired dialogues, overall. But they say the devil is in the details, and they are right. The show is marred by stupid continuity and logical mistakes. Just two examples from the pilot: Helena (Huntress), who works as a waitress in a nightclub (whatever!) and Barbara discuss openly about a case in front of 100+ people; In addition, she is not only barefaced (and her picture taken by the police already for reckless driving, but that's only an add-on), but breaks into places barehanded! Supposedly, Barbara trained with Batman and is all familiar with procedure (jeez!). But my favourite, Barbara sends Dinah on an Eastern egg hunt and provides her with infrared gear. Then she enters a tunnel, and what does she do? Turns on a flashlight! I am a bit sick of all these details going unnoticed and uncensored in movies and TV shows under the "low budget" excuse. It only takes people that think, but obviously this is no longer necessary to make movies. In summary, this show is rather disappointing, although sometimes fun to watch. Even accepting the major liberties taken with respect to the original DC comics, the stories are rather pedestrian and the attention to detail non-existent. What really ticks me is that I wanted to like this show, and what destroys its credibility was not all that hard to fix.

...Birds of Prey starred Dina Meyer as Oracle and Ashley Scott as Huntress, established partners in New Gotham. Meyer's Oracle was the paralyzed former Batgirl; Scott's Huntress was the daughter of Batman and a metahuman Catwoman, and as such exhibited feline powers. Joined in the pilot episode by a young psychic runaway named Dinah (played by Rachel Skarsten), the team spent 13 episodes stopping various metahuman threats such as Huntress' old high school friend Shiva and Darkstrike. Other main cast members included Shemar Moore as Huntress' love interest Detective Jesse Reese, and Mia Sara as the villainous Dr. Harleen Quinzel, M.D. (Harley Quinn). Lori Loughlin was a notable guest star, playing Dinah's metahuman mother, the Black Canary.

Birds o Prey was a short live tv show that i never saw when i was growing up because at the time i did not have the wb were i lived and i away wanted to wach it.The tv show start Ashley Scott as Huntress the daughter of Batman and Catwoman.The Huntress is the main part of the story not batman by any means.The tv show did have some of batman villian from the comic books like clayface,harly quinn,and other bad guys that make a serie like this worth a buy for some and a rental for others.The main bad thing about the show is they replace some of the song in the show.I hope they bring the serie to blueray and change the songs back to what there were

This show aired on the WB, which should tell you something and of course was cancelled in it's first season. It wasn't all bad though, Ashley Scott was very good in her role as The Huntress and Dina Meyer does a good job as Oracle. The best acting part goes to Mia Sara as Dr. Harleen Quinzel. The show should have had a chance to wrap up some plot lines and go a little further. The DVD set would play great for a lazy weekend watching.

I can't believe it took so long for this DVD set to come out, this was a sweet tv show and i have no idea why they cancelled it. There was even an online petition entitled "Save the Birds" created in which thousands of people signed to keep the show alive but they still never did. If you havent seen this, you got to....and if you did, well i don't need to tell you to buy this on day one.

All 13 episodes were 4:3 letterboxed instead of 16:9 except for the unaired pilot everything else ok

Birds of Prey is a great remix of batman. Birds of Prey takes the best of batman and x-men combined. it is a great show wish there where more then the 13 episodes. if you like any of the batman movies then you will like this show