Reviews of Howard the Duck 1986
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What the duck!
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It's obvious Jeffrey Jones had a blast as the villain, and it's fun watching him crank his ham dial* to 11. But the movie itself is a profound disservice to the original material, and a misconceived, horrendous shlep through kid-friendly action movie excess. *edit* Flag-bearers of the movie may be viewing this through a lens of nostalgia, or maybe they're just able to see something I've always missed. But I think Howard the Duck as a film is pretty awful.
* That is NOT a euphemism. No. Bad reader!
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" No one laughs at a master of Quack Fu!" - Howard
Why, Just why? Tim Robbins...... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!? The extra half a star is for Lea Thompson but this film is just insanely bad.
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Certainly not as bad as it's reputation. I'll go further to say that there is a little bit of charm to it.
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Jeffrey Jones is a great actor. Too bad he's a criminal and a creep.
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Once upon a time I lent my doody a VHS copy of this crazy gem.
The next day, his mother was more than upset and gave me a sermon.
It was truly worth it. -
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Ah Howard, how I hate thee! Widely and rightly reviled as one of the biggest turkeys of all time, Howard the Duck is an almost brilliantly misconceived movie. It not only mangles the source material horribly but it also managed to be illogical and wrong head on every possible level.
So we have Steve Gerber's rude and obnoxious duck mellowed to make him family friendly, but then they take the watered down character and place him in a movie see your hero menaced by a lesbian biker gang, getting a job in a brothel and coming close to bestiality with Lea Thompson.
Simply fowl!
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A trainwreck of interdimensional proportions. When I originally saw this at the theater, during the scene where the policeman is searching Howard and says, "Lieutenant, there's no zipper," a woman in the audience stood up and yelled, "It's right there, you're not looking hard enough!" Sums up the film perfectly.
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So George Lucas made this and we are all surprised when he came up with Jar Jar? Saying that it is stupid and makes very little sense but still I found myself enjoying it.
What did strike me was the fact that there were two levels of effects in this, the practical effects which were good, yes Howard looks like a man in a suit but the effects on Jeffrey Jones and all of the sets look fantastic. Then there…
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