Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck

If you concentrate on the fact that Howard the Duck was a notorious box office dud (still brought up today) and considered one of the worst films of the '80s, it's entirely possible to enjoy this special effects piffle. Howard, played by a special effect puppet, lives on a planet where ducks evolved instead of apes, but one day he's sucked into a vortex and deposited on Earth. There he befriends Beverly Switzler (Lea Thompson), lead singer for the Cherry Bombs, becomes their manager, and, oh yeah, saves the Earth from the Dark Overlords. Jeffrey Jones is the villain and Tim Robbins (!) is there for comic relief. And who can resist the culmination of synthesizer pop, the Howard the Duck theme song, as realized by the Cherry Bombs? A midnight movie that your kids might watch more than you. --Keith Simanton

Production: Universal Pictures
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.6
Metacritic:
28
Rotten Tomatoes:
15%
PG
Year:
1986
110
3,230 Views
You will believe that a duck can talk.
Trapped in a world he never made.
A new breed of hero.
More adventure than humanly possible.

Phil Blumburtt:
[attempting to analyze Howard]...This is amazing. Man's oldest fantasy! [imitating the SUPERMAN narrator] From across a sea of stars...Look! Up in the sky! It's...The Duck Who Fell to Earth!

Beverly Switzer:
Phil, you've got to help us. Seriously, what are we gonna do here?

Phil:
Nice Ducky. [squawking like Donald Duck] Me, Phil. You, Howard. We can be friends. Klaatu Barada Nikto!

Howard T. Duck:
[annoyed and confused] Undoubtedly one of Earth's greatest minds here.

Beverly:
Hey, Phil. Don't talk to him like that; he's just as smart as you are.

Howard:
Oh, now I'm really depressed.

Phil:
[into his microphone] Highly intelligent, perhaps even...Wait, that's it! We're about to see if the subject has any capabilities we don't normally find on Earth...Any "Superpowers", as it were? Howard! [he produces a steel bar and holds it out to Howard] Can you bend this?

Howard:
What are you, crazy or something? [The bar clatters to the floor]

Phil:
[produces a 2X4 and holds it in front of Howard's face] Howard, can you burn a hole through this with some kind of eye-laser?

Howard:
Hey, you wanna see powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal ducks? What say I bite your nose off with my super-bill!

Phil:
Howard, quit holding out! I want you to concentrate and read my mind!

Howard:
Right. You're thinking..."They know I'm a phony. They know I'm a yo-yo." Tell me if I'm warm on any of these, Phil. [Beverly giggles]

Phil:
Next, I want you to look into the future and tell me what you see!

Howard:
I see...Myself, walking out that door! [He departs, with Beverly in tow]


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