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Howard the Duck
1986
Comedy, Sci-fi
1h 50m
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader. (imdb)
Directed by:
Willard HuyckHoward the Duck
1986
Comedy, Sci-fi
1h 50m
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Rated 11 Dec 2013
46
19th
Desperately in need of a Christopher Nolan re-imagining. The new version would be darker, grittier and sweatier with Howard depicted as an outcast, a loner, an anti-hero walking a fine line between justice and revenge. I call it "The Duck Knight Returns". You're welcome.
Rated 11 Dec 2013
Rated 09 Mar 2021
48
19th
This 80's duck out of water film is very much game and you should take a gander. It more than fits the bill but at a poultry 110 minutes it quickly heads south before running afowl of becoming lame. It took me three weeks to write this.
Rated 09 Mar 2021
Rated 10 Dec 2013
38
18th
I have no idea how to rate this, really. Is it meant for kids? Adults? People with brain damage? Duck enthusiasts? Budding psychopaths? Alien cultures?
Rated 10 Dec 2013
Rated 28 Feb 2015
40
19th
I found this surprisingly (disturbingly?) watchable.
Rated 28 Feb 2015
Rated 11 Dec 2008
5
1st
An abomination. Really everything about this movie is absolutely horrendous. The comic is an adult comedy that's actually quite clever, but this tries to cater to children (it's George Lucas, of course it caters to children) and loses its identity in the process. And that just makes the moments where it does try and shoot for an adult crowd that much more creepy and weird. Worst of all, it's not even remotely comical. Just an all-out failure of an adaptation.
Rated 11 Dec 2008
Rated 21 May 2007
18
0th
From duck breasts to bathhouses to humans hitting on ducks, this is one creepy "kids" film. Executive produced by George Lucas and constantly on loop in hell.
Rated 21 May 2007
Rated 08 Sep 2019
9
3rd
The only thing "saving" this (and it doesn't really save this) is pedophile principal Jeffrey Jones looking like Doctor Robotnik and shooting lasers out of his eyes. It feels like it comes from the same universe as Buckaroo Banzai, but something went horribly wrong.
Rated 08 Sep 2019
Rated 26 Apr 2019
10
0th
10 points bc young kids may enjoy it. However, being familiar with the source material (and the way the film makes Howard sexual) I know this was not intended for kids. While creator Gerber did lapse into Mad magazine-level parody at times, what made Howard popular was his cultural satire & bending superhero cliches into absurdity. This is all slapstick & very bad puns & as I FF'd, I spent a great deal of time marveling at Lucas' power to get this debacle made & feeling bad for Lea Thompson.
Rated 26 Apr 2019
Rated 30 Sep 2017
13
2nd
As bad as its reputation; a messy, ugly, unfunny slog, made with too little story, too little heart, and too much money. Or to put it another way: duck breasts. In a family film.
Rated 30 Sep 2017
Rated 18 Mar 2016
35
0th
What did I just watch? Objectively Howard the Duck is a terrible movie. Is it so bad that it is good? No, it's just bad. Is it so bad that you could enjoy it with friends, alcohol, drugs, or some combination therein? Perhaps. Thompson was pretty hot though. And we now know what Robbins sought redemption for in Shawshank.
Rated 18 Mar 2016
Rated 17 Jul 2010
20
5th
With nihilistic wit and introspection, Howard the Duck is at times an uncompromising vision, a flawed bestial romance and biting criticism of mankind's hubris. The film spans two worlds; a world of anthropomorphic ducks and one of anthropomorphized apes, with either world eerily familiar to our own. The world of evolved apes is portrayed as a bastion of misery punctuated only by occasional outbreaks of glam rock and police chases. The question: can the duck in any of us survive such a world?
Rated 17 Jul 2010
Rated 26 Jul 2021
30
12th
I really liked the theme song. I really didn't like seeing a duck's bare breasts.
Rated 26 Jul 2021
Rated 10 Sep 2019
15
2nd
Aggressively unlikable on every level, Howard the Duck has something that's offensive to everyone's sensibilities. Whether it's the strange touches of literally inhuman sexuality, the total lack of humor, or the cringe-worthy acting, this is a movie whose very existence is a puzzle. Altogether, just deeply unpleasant.
Rated 10 Sep 2019
Rated 10 Feb 2017
30
2nd
This is a terrible film. The idea to have almost a love scene between the female lead in an alien duck was an incredibly stupid one. The script is a giant mess and the actors can not save the crappy material. This film has to be seen to be believed.
Rated 10 Feb 2017
Rated 29 Nov 2015
15
3rd
Absolutely abysmal. The screenplay is wonky, the story is stupid and doesn't get the point of the original comic, and Howard is just not funny at all. The movie as a whole is boring and surprisingly doesn't have a lot of riffing material. The only things worthwhile are Tim Robbins' and Jeffrey Jones' over the top performances and the makeup effects on Jones' character.
Rated 29 Nov 2015
Rated 04 Mar 2013
10
12th
It's hard to review this. It can't really be described in words. This is a film that needs to be experienced. Everything about it is so wrong and ill-conceived on so many levels.
Rated 04 Mar 2013
Rated 19 Dec 2010
20
3rd
If you find duck puns entertaining you are in for a cracker jack of a time. It will make you laugh a few times because of how ridiculous it is, but more often you'll just feel like you are legitimately wasting 2 hours of your sad pathetic life. You are better off watching the ridiculous scenes on youtube so you can say you saw them (i.e. duck breasts, Lea Thompson trying to seduce Howard).
Rated 19 Dec 2010
Rated 27 Jul 2008
5
6th
One crazy-ass film with duck breasts. OKKKKAAAAAAYYYYYYYY.
Rated 27 Jul 2008
Rated 14 Aug 2007
65
47th
Let me go against the grain here and say that I enjoy Howard the Duck. Before he went and lusted after children, Jeffrey Jones made any movie he was in better, and even besides him this movie has enough isolated laughs to warrant repeat viewings.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 25 Jul 2007
90
64th
Unfairly abused 80's classic. An allegory for how America treats it's foreigners, and people of different color (black), Howard the Duck is about an alien (Howard) who is an intelligent and productive being who is abused and mistreated by the American government and it's citizens. People who think this is the worst movie ever are whit and racist.
Rated 25 Jul 2007
Rated 13 Jul 2007
1
10th
Who is the target audience for this film? It's way too dirty to market as a kids or family film, and it's way too silly and immature to be marketed to adults. What gives?
Rated 13 Jul 2007
Rated 14 Sep 2019
60
20th
Top badass moment? Discovering Marvel should forget about films and stick to comics; it should be blindingly obvious to everyone that it’ll never amount to anything when it comes to movies. Like Babycham, this film isn’t as bad as its detractors like to make out but requires a very distinctive palliate to truly appreciate. Sadly, despite its unique weirdness, it fails for a very mundane reason; it’s old fashioned American humour's just not that funny. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 14 Sep 2019
Rated 10 Mar 2018
45
8th
What the duck (haha! Suprisingly not a quote from the film) was this? Who is supposed to be the target audience? Very strange...
Rated 10 Mar 2018
Rated 03 Mar 2015
25
15th
This could have been and decent campy comedy, but Howard isn't really funny or charming.
Rated 03 Mar 2015
Rated 18 Sep 2014
5
1st
So terrible....my bf and I watched it for shits and giggles and we could barely make it through
Rated 18 Sep 2014
Rated 21 Jul 2014
40
7th
The Dark overlord finale aside, it's difficult to see exactly where all the money went. Howard just looks like a midget in a duck suit. To say that it requires considerable suspension of disbelief to actually buy a scenario where humans confuse Howard for a real duck and get kind of frightened by him is a total understatement. Moreover, the 'jokes' are lame, full of corny duck and animal related puns and references, and the narrative is arbitrarily strung together. Not the worst but.....
Rated 21 Jul 2014
Rated 14 Jul 2014
25
9th
As a huge fan of the Evil Dead movies, I can tell you that I love 80's cheese. This however, is the wrong side of it. A horrible movie, proving that letting George Lucas do his own thing, is the wrong move. If you want to keep your sanity, do not watch it
Rated 14 Jul 2014
Rated 02 May 2014
0
1st
When this came out I wondered how George Lucas could be partly responsible for anything this dreadful. After Episodes I-III, I wonder how he could have ever been responsible for anything as good as American Graffiti and Episode IV: A New Hope...
Rated 02 May 2014
Rated 03 Mar 2014
3
0th
Quite possibly the worst thing in the history of the world.
Rated 03 Mar 2014
Rated 30 Nov 2013
20
3rd
The first half-hour or so of Howard.. is so staggeringly bad you're watching in open-jawed amazement that something like this could actually be made. Then the film actually picks up a smidge, but losing a lot of its so-bad-it's-good quality in the process, and becomes just a frightening example of what awful 'family' actioners the '80s was capable of spitting out. Memorable for that uncomfortable bedroom scene and a collection of some of the worst duck-based puns ever committed to celluloid.
Rated 30 Nov 2013
Rated 27 Aug 2013
13
3rd
How the hell did this get made? I can't even say anything about it. It has no sense of pacing, tonally it's all over the place, and the art direction is just fucking horrifying. Get it away! Get it away! Now! Has to be seen to be believed - and to think some people enjoy this?
Rated 27 Aug 2013
Rated 04 Jul 2012
40
9th
this movie cant decide what it wants to be. Before it starts playing it says its PG but the dvd case says 14a. and that is basically what this movie struggles with all the way through. It seems like its all made for children, the crappy sappy acting and lack of profanity, but then it throughs in curve balls like a cocaine reference, a sexy bent over back shot of a chick in her underwear, annnnnnnnd i cant remember but i know there were more times where i thought it wasnt made for kids or adults.
Rated 04 Jul 2012
Rated 18 May 2011
0
0th
Many box office bombs don't really deserve their laughingstock reputation but, guess what? This one does -- and then some! Gerber's acerbic comic strip character becomes another big-screen animatronic waste of space. Jones adds a few mildly funny moments but this George Lucas-produced drek is still one of the worst -- if not *the* worst -- big-studio Hollywood production of the 1980s.
Rated 18 May 2011
Rated 16 Nov 2010
12
6th
Absolutely butchers the original comics and takes away everything I liked about them. Gone are the goofy villains and bizarre scenarios, gone are Howard's cynical and aloof personality. Instead, we get a trite story whose main punchline is based around duck puns.
Rated 16 Nov 2010
Rated 23 Oct 2010
17
7th
...there are... good props? ...Jeffrey Jones is fun as always? ...it definitely manages in its goal of being weird? ...aaaaaaa
Rated 23 Oct 2010
Rated 25 Sep 2010
16
5th
I saw this in the theater, when I was 10 years old. A mistake on so many levels.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
Rated 13 Mar 2010
40
4th
Yes this is a shitty film but it is also campy and infinitely quotable because of its wretchedness. This is another film that has 80's B-movie charm. This was produced by none other than George Lucas and should have served as an advance foreshadowing of the direction of his future films.
Rated 13 Mar 2010
Rated 08 Jan 2010
11
0th
The worst movie I've ever seen. Amazingly bad;
Rated 08 Jan 2010
Rated 13 Nov 2009
0
0th
Inept on just about every level. And Jeffrey Jones is unsettling in the worst way. Not even fun to laugh at, just an oppressive experience.
Rated 13 Nov 2009
Rated 08 Nov 2009
0
0th
Unbearable, seriously. Everyone should avoid this movie at all costs
Rated 08 Nov 2009
Rated 30 Dec 2008
55
36th
This movie starts out funny and neat and then just goes on and on and on...
Rated 30 Dec 2008
Rated 06 Oct 2008
78
38th
Sort of funny when I was 8 years old. But it really didn't stand the test of time, did it.
Rated 06 Oct 2008
Rated 09 Mar 2008
2
2nd
How high must they have been to think that choosing Howard the Duck over a whole host of other Marvel licenses would be a good idea? It's a kids film gone mad, sporting all kinds duck-suits seemingly designed only to be creepy, with questionable human-duck relations and even humanoid ducks in the nude it is one sick film. What they failed to realise is that although the series was always utterly ridiculous, in a comic book none of that matters. Geting a live production out is an impossibility.
Rated 09 Mar 2008
Rated 11 Feb 2008
10
6th
Come on. holy crap.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
Rated 18 Jan 2008
30
19th
In the 80s was pretty good. Oh, boy. What a fuck is this?
Rated 18 Jan 2008
Rated 17 Dec 2007
20
3rd
I used to love this when I was tiny. WHY?!
Rated 17 Dec 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
40
17th
A wacky childhood fave that has utterly failed to stand the test of time. The scene where Lea Thompson tease seduces Howard was the grist for many sexy pre-teen dreams, though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 12 Jul 2007
40
2nd
As a silly underground comic, it sort of works. Trying to make it into a feature film was a really bad idea.
Rated 12 Jul 2007
Rated 06 Jul 2007
25
22nd
Not as bad as critics complained at the time (it's hardly "the worst movie ever made") -- but still a terrible disappointment for fan's of Steve Gerber's cartoon duck trapped in a world he never made. A big, big part of the problem is simply the awfulness of the duck suit, which was a "fowl" effect even in its day.
Rated 06 Jul 2007
Rated 12 Dec 2006
55
9th
So terrible, yet kind of amusing in its absurdity.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
Rated 13 Nov 2024
10
4th
They must have looked for the most singularly uncreative people in the world to write this.
Rated 13 Nov 2024
Rated 24 Sep 2024
2
21st
I can't bomb it, cause I fondly remember watching this one back in the day. But I was an age where I really didn't comprehend what I was viewing, FWIW.
Rated 24 Sep 2024
Rated 09 May 2023
40
7th
Like everyone else, I struggle to see who this is for. It isn't funny but it has a cute duck with sarcastic wit...so kids? Everything Jeffrey Jones is doing is great and I love the practical effects, but all of that isn't enough.
Rated 09 May 2023
Rated 24 May 2022
30
1st
I forgot how terrible this movie is. I never grew up with the movie so I have zero nostalgia for it. I'll start with the good things about the movie. Lea Thompson is super cute and I believe her as the female lead. Jeffrey Jones is perfect in everything so I enjoyed his performance. Actually, the movie was somewhat redeemed by his performance after his turn. Now, the bad points; everything else. The script was so bad. The whole setup for the movie and the character were boring. Never again.
Rated 24 May 2022
Rated 01 May 2021
2
5th
People greatly over-exaggerate the travesty of this film, but I certainly can't recommend it. There are some genuinely good effects and makeup, but the direction given to the actors only emphasizes the lameness of the script.
Rated 01 May 2021
Rated 09 Feb 2021
58
19th
Lmaosentthroughcosmos+beaute+lookslikemacaulaylol+demonaliencametoo+win-pretendsdemonlol+hernewbandmanager-themesonglol
Rated 09 Feb 2021
Rated 18 Dec 2020
72
51st
This movie indeed has some very serious shortcoming. Not least of all having a major identity crisis, never knowing what it wants to be, who it's target audience is, and neither who Howard the Duck is, a grumpy middle-aged man, uhh duck, or a twentysomething in a quarterlife crisis. But still that all didn't keep me from enjoying the hell out of this, cause it is such a complete mismash.
Rated 18 Dec 2020
Rated 14 Mar 2020
1
0th
Seen: ?. My six year old brain ate this up once upon a time, renting it again and again from the local video store. Life was simpler beak then.
Rated 14 Mar 2020
Rated 19 Jan 2020
20
12th
I hoped it would be at least funny or charming, but it isn't
Rated 19 Jan 2020
Rated 17 Jul 2018
65
21st
SO. MANY. DUCK. PUNS.
Rated 17 Jul 2018
Rated 12 Nov 2016
10
7th
D-
Rated 12 Nov 2016
Rated 01 Aug 2016
4
12th
This movie is one of the most aggressively sexual movies I've ever seen. It's seriously on a Foodfight! level of uncomfortable shit.
Rated 01 Aug 2016
Rated 04 Jan 2016
21
6th
I feel like a went to hell
Rated 04 Jan 2016
Rated 05 Jul 2015
62
41st
The cinematic equivalent of finding a stash of years-old Halloween candy in the back of a closet. Colorful, a bit gross, and a relic of days gone by. I found myself sincerely loving this film about 1/3 of the time.
Rated 05 Jul 2015
Rated 07 Dec 2014
60
28th
IT'S SO FUCKING LONG!
But Leah Thompson is pretty good in it. As far as I can tell from the German dub.
Rated 07 Dec 2014
Rated 16 Aug 2014
44
18th
one of the most all-over-the-place movies ever. story is just plain stupid. this writing team seemed to have no idea what they wanted to do. still there's charm in what the actors made of it, and the design of the monster at the end and the effects were pretty cool.
Rated 16 Aug 2014
Rated 28 Jul 2014
67
20th
Terrible, but the very best kind of terrible, a silly, cheesy joy. Plus, I flipping love ducks, and they're vastly underrepresented on the big screen.
Rated 28 Jul 2014
Rated 22 Jul 2014
40
17th
I seen this movie when I was a kid. I liked it then, but I'm sure it's one of those movies only a kid could love.
Rated 22 Jul 2014
Rated 25 Dec 2013
15
4th
While it has its moments, Howard the Duck suffers from an uneven tone and mediocre performances.
Rated 25 Dec 2013
Rated 26 Nov 2013
35
6th
I guess this shows that not everything George Lucas touches turn into gold. The first third moves at a quick pace and throws one awkward/WTF scene after another. So, at least it's entertaining in a so-bad-it's-good way. After that it's just plain bad.
Rated 26 Nov 2013
Rated 05 Jul 2013
40
6th
I actually like the movie, for the first half. Once the alien came, it just got to be too crazy and over-the-top. It's pure '80s cheese for sure.
Rated 05 Jul 2013
Rated 19 Oct 2012
70
0th
This is terrible, but I'm not going to deny that every once in awhile I go back and watch it again. It's terrible, but it's ridiculous and silly.
Rated 19 Oct 2012
Rated 10 Jul 2012
29
6th
White it has its moments, Howard the Duck suffers from an uneven tone and mediocre performances.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
Rated 15 Jun 2012
65
27th
Too bad Jeffrey Jones is a terrible person because he's an incredible actor
Rated 15 Jun 2012
Rated 07 May 2012
20
1st
I can't figure out how it took so many talented people to make this awful movie. Stay for the post credits scene where a young Nick Fury shows up.
Rated 07 May 2012
Rated 03 Feb 2012
100
99th
Never thought I'd give a movie a cool 100, but now I am. I've never seen a movie that went so far ahead in terms of what a single movie should discuss, how...decentralized it could be, or how long it could run. I love everyone involved in this project, even Tim Robbins. In many senses, this movie is an extract of what 80s cinema had to offer, and 10 minutes into the thing you'll realize that no movies like this were made before, and none will be after, the most maligned decade in movie history.
Rated 03 Feb 2012
Rated 16 Dec 2011
97
30th
Howard (voiced by Chip Zien) lives on Duckworld, a planet just like Earth but inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks. One night, as he reads the latest issue of Playduck Magazine, his armchair begins to quake violently and propels him out of his apartment building and into outer space, where he eventually lands up on Earth, in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon arriving, Howard encounters a girl being attacked by thugs and decides to help her out with his unique brand of "Quack Fu". After the thugs scamper, the
Rated 16 Dec 2011
Rated 05 Aug 2011
35
20th
Yeah, so, the execution is, uh, less perfect than I remember from my childhood, but it is hard not to find just a tiny wee bit of love for an idea so quack - whack!
Rated 05 Aug 2011
Rated 21 Jul 2011
47
3rd
Good God somebody spent a hell of a lot of money on this shit. That said, the special effects are pretty awesome.
Rated 21 Jul 2011
Rated 09 Apr 2010
65
15th
mostly rubbish...but i always thought the 'dark overlords of the universe' were cool...
Rated 09 Apr 2010
Rated 07 Apr 2010
48
29th
Atrocious first half, but the second half, while still thoroughly rooted in "bad", is good fun for the most part. Still, I probably shouldn't have sat through it again--I'd really enjoyed it as a kid. Have to wait a while until I watch Jacob's Ladder again after seeing Tim Robbins in this role; on the other hand, I kind of want to watch Caroline in the City now... 2024 August rewatch: yeah, it's bad. But it kinda rules. The dark lord guy really goes for it. Upping from 23 to an undeserved 48.
Rated 07 Apr 2010
Rated 10 Feb 2010
50
38th
LOL - just because u have to see it to believe it.
Rated 10 Feb 2010
Rated 31 Dec 2009
8
0th
Brilliant. When you think there's absolutely no way this could get worse, a giant insect comes out of the floor. I mean, this has to be the worst flick I've ever seen, but it's so bad it's close to the best one I've ever seen.
Rated 31 Dec 2009
Rated 29 Nov 2009
60
30th
Not a 'good' movie but it's fun and campy as duck
Rated 29 Nov 2009
Rated 08 Oct 2009
40
32nd
I had such hopes for this movie. Even Lea Thompson couldn't save this one, though.
Rated 08 Oct 2009
Rated 09 Apr 2009
0
15th
Toned down from an adult comic strip, this peculiar film has nowhere to go because it's too sexy for kids and too stupid for adults.
Rated 09 Apr 2009
Rated 24 Mar 2009
50
9th
An honest score for probably what is, controversially albeit, the best of the worst movies ever made. This truly is a guilty pleasure and is a movie every one loves to hate, but at least this film is somewhat coherent and doesn't try to be anything more than based on a goofy comic from Marvel. The DVD is top notch, and so are the special features. A good cast makes this clunker tolerable, and Lea Thompson parades around in her undies, YAY! She's hot in this. The 50 is justified in this case.
Rated 24 Mar 2009
Rated 19 Feb 2009
62
10th
One of those movies that is almost "so bad it's good". The concept is ridiculous but just accept it for what it is.
Rated 19 Feb 2009
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