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Howard the Duck

More adventure than humanly possible.

1986 · 1h 50m · PG Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by Willard Huyck

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Overview

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...

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13%
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Rotten

In the absence of anything resembling structure, character, point of view or sense of purpose, there is no place else for this empty project to go.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Rotten

What can you say about a comedy in which the biggest laugh is in the end credits?

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

Reservations aside, it's hard to fault the tongue-in-bill high spirits of a movie like Howard the Duck.

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten

For all those who cottoned to the charm of the comic books, the duck stops here.

Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

The movie is too scuzzy to beguile children, too infantile to appeal to adults.

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

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