A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam…
The story begins when Howard, a sarcastic humanoid duck from outer space, is somehow pulled from his home world to Cleveland where he meets and quickly befriends with Beverly Switzler, a lead singer where they must stop an alien invader known as the Dark Overlord at all costs.
Saw the movie in '86 in San Francisco, $15 dollar premiere benefit performance for the Berkeley Film Archives. Champagne, pate, free t-shirt. Lucas was a no-show. Are you surprised? Let's just say that "Howard" was the most expensive piece o' crap attended by either myself or Howard "the Hughes" Lucas. And written by Katz & Huyck, who co-wrote "American Graffiti"! Sadness. At least I got a shirt out of the deal. Paging Jar Jar Binks! Lucas, my friends, is Way, Way Out of Touch with you & I.
This (also known as Howard: A New Breed of Hero) is talked about a lot as being one of the worst films ever made, and I knew that George Lucas produced it, having seen one or two clips I was up for challenging myself to see what I would think. Basically in a world of anthropomorphic ducks, Howard T. Duck (voiced by Chip Zien, portrayed by Ed Gale, Tim Rose, Steve Sleap, Peter Baird, Mary Wells, Lisa Sturz and Jordan Prentice) is a twenty seven year old who lives on Duckworld, and one night while looking through Playduck Magazine his armchair starts quaking, and then all the sudden while sat in it he propels backwards, being pulled into outer space. He eventually lands on the planet Earth in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, and after being thrown out of a club he ends up in a trash can in an alley, he sees club singer Beverly Switzler (Back to the Future's Lea Thompson) being assaulted and confronts the thugs with his own brand of Chinese Martial Arts, or "Quack Fu", she lets him stay the night at her place. The next day Beverly takes Howard to supposed scientist Phil Blumburtt (Razzie nominated Tim Robbins) in the hope of helping him return to his own planet, but Phil is only a lab assistant, so Howards shuns Beverly's help, accepting he may have to stay on Earth he tries to get a job, this also fails so he goes to make up with Beverly, she sings in the band Cherry Bomb, and he confronts their sleazy manager to release them from their contract. Beverly suggests Howard becomes Cherry Bomb's new manager, they are interrupted while flirting by Phil who has brought along his colleagues Dr. Walter Jenning (Beetlejuice's Jeffrey Jones) and Carter (Miles Chapin), Jenning explains that Howard came to Earth because scientists were experimenting with a dimensional-jumping device that happened to be aimed at Howard's universe, he was sucked to Earth by mistake. They think there is a way to reverse the process and send him home, but arriving at the lab the laser is they find it is malfunctioning, and it causes Jenning to be taken over by an alien from "the Nexus of Sominus", this creature in the doctor's body introduces himself as "the Dark Overlord of the Universe" and displays supernatural powers, and he kidnaps Beverly, and Howard goes to find Phil to help him rescue her. Back at the lab the Dark Overlord has tied Beverly onto a desk under the laser, Howard and Phil race to the lab in an ultralight aircraft, and elsewhere in the lab they find a "neutron disintegrator", they shoot this military tested weapon at Jenning and force the alien out of his body, the Dark Overlord turns into a large and hideous scorpion like creature. Howard fires the neutron disintegrator again destroy the Dark Overlord, but more Dark Overlords are approaching Earth, he must destroy the laser and stop them, but in doing so he will not be able to go home, he chooses to do this and banish the monsters back to their dimension, Howard becomes the manager for Beverly and her band, and Phil is a crew member for their tour. Also starring Paul Guilfoyle as Lieutenant Welker, Liz Sagal as Ronette, Dominique Davalos as Cal, Holly Robinson Peete as K.C., Tommy Swerdlow as Ginger Moss and Richard Edson as Ritchie. I had no idea that this was based on a Marvel comics creation, that maybe explains why it was made in the first place, some sarcastic lines from the lead character, pop culture references and good special effects towards the end are not enough, some of the music is cheesy, the story is predictable and unengaging most of the time, and the acting and dialogue is terrible, there was a tiny part of me engaged, but maybe that's because it was so ridiculous, a silly comedy fantasy. It won the Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst New Star for the six guys and gals in the duck suit and Worst Visual Effects, and it was nominated for Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Director for Willard Huyck, Worst Original Song for the title song "Howard the Duck" and Worst Picture of the Decade. Pretty poor!
Howard T Duck, of Marvel Comics, might well have a beef against Lucasfilm for transforming his magnetic comic strip personality into a zipperless polyester duck-suit (filled interchangeably by eight different actors, each apparently under four feet in height) in this aimless movie.
Two scenes had to be cut to get a PG rating for the theatrical release of the movie (condom in Howard's wallet / tentacle tongue in the cigarette lighter socket). This version was then released by CIC Video in 1987 on VHS with the same rating. The later PG DVD release by Metrodome was cut more heavily. All scenes with sexual content were removed, among others. But an uncut DVD with a BBFC 12 rating was also released in the UK.
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