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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 1, 1986 |
Starring:
Jeffrey Jones, Lea Thompson
Summary:
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.
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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]
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]
Feb 17, 2018
The best Marvel movie ever made! Very advanced for it's time pushing the bounds of human duck relations. Great film, must watch. It's going to be hard for Marvel to ever improve on this formula. They sure don't make them like this anymore.
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Feb 5, 2019
Howard the Duck. Cool film about a duck in a jacket. The plot of the film itself is not an intricate duck that falls into our world and wants to return home, but it turns out to be not so easy to do. For 1986, it was a completely watchful film with more or less normal special effects.
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