From the people that brought you American Graffiti...Yes, the same people that brought you American Graffiti brought us Howard the Duck. Howard the Duck, that legendary bomb that caused George Lucas to sell a little company he owned called Pixar (yes THAT Pixar. Could you imagine his power if he still had it?). Between this, Superman III and IV, The Punisher (Dolph), and Captain America comic book adaptations were set back ten years.
Basic plot: Duck is sucked from his planet to Earth, meets Beverly (Lea Thompson), who leads Howard to a lab assistant (Oscar winner Tim Robbins- I bet he wished this never had a DVD release), who leads Howard to a real scientist (Jeffrey Jones) who ends up sucking a dark overlord who wants to take over the world. Yowza. Even the cop from CSI is in this. Not William Petersen.
Now I've seen worse movies.Not many, but I have seen worse. It's hard to attack plot holes, overacting, and such when you're dealing with a talking duck. It's a nice '80's time capsule, mainly for Lea Thompson's hair and the Thomas Dolby soundtrack. Holy shit, John Barry did the score for this! I thought it sounded like a recycled A View To A Kill soundtrack. No wonder.
Yeah, we can all bash Howard the Duck (and future generations will). It has to be done. When a monumental dud is released we all have to look at why. Of course with Howard the Duck we already have our answer to that now don't we.
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