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- 1986
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1986
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Summary A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.
Written By: Willard Huyck, Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik
- 1986
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1986
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Howard the Duck
28
4.8
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Summary A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.
Written By: Willard Huyck, Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
28
5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
29% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
67% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
28
5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
29% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
67% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
There's good stuff around the edges of the film -- all that word play and all those visual gags demand that you pay attention lest you miss something even in the slow scenes. But at the center, no magic. [01 Aug 1986, p.D1]
Howard the Duck manages to be two or three types of fun: as a crazy comedy, it has some good risque/sick jokes to go along with its messy slapstick and bland rock music; as a monster movie, it has an outstanding performance from Jeffrey Jones as a scientist-cum-monster and an astonishingly repulsive Dark Overlord of the Universe shows up for the exciting climax.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 User Ratings
4.8
27% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
36% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
37% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 User Ratings
4.8
27% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
36% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
37% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
I enjoyed this movie when it first hit theaters as a kid and still find it entertaining to this day. It has more in common with the Howard the Duck magazines than the comicbook and while there's a few changes to it, I still think it's great. The soundtrack is good too.
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When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll.
The story has no center; the duck is not likable, and the costly, overwrought, laser-filled special effects that conclude the movie are less impressive than a sparkler on a birthday cake.
Howard The Duck has several jokes, really, they're all just desperately unfunny.
The first half concerns our hero's satirical misadventures on earth, except that director Huyck has the comic finesse of Hulk Hogan. The second half is an overproduced orgy of car crashes and monsters, in which Howard must save the world from the Dark Overlords of the universe. George Lucas was the executive producer. The Force was not with him. [25 Aug 1986, p.63]
Howard the Duck, the movie, is as bad as you've heard. Actually, it's worse. But its failings as a film have overshadowed the frequently brilliant 1970s comic book that inspired it. Using only the most superficial elements of its source material while discarding most of what made the comic interesting, the film serves as a textbook example of how to turn something into nothing.
Greatest film of all time!!! An extraordinary, life-changing, enlightening, movie. MARVEL´s best movie yet. It is impossible to top. Everything about this movie is magnificent. The cast, the script, the special effects, the pacing, the tone, and the plot are GOD tier quality. It just makes sense.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Howard The Duck is an entertaining at first half then became a boring dumb bad movie, with a dumb story and a dumb horrible performances by all the cast.
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Almost as bad as Batman and Robin and is one of the worst comic book movies.
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Awards
Razzie Awards
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination