One day, as howard relaxes in his armchair, it begins to quake violently and propels him out of his apartment building and into outer. Released 30 years ago, howard the duck may still go down in history as one of the worst movies ever made. First is the cigar smoking drake howard from the ducks planet. The howard comic later spoofed the movie in a storyline featuring lea thompson herself howard the duck later made a cameo appearance in the first two guardians of the galaxy gmw films. Seemingly lacking in plot and direction, the film is essentially a mishmash of a duck outofwater story and an alien. The tone of this film is the most perplexing aspect. It was inspired by the marvel comics characters howard the duck and beverly switzler. The 12 adam sandler movies on netflix with the highest rotten tomatoes scores. Howard the duck is a 1986 american science fiction comedy film directed by willard huyck and starring lea thompson, jeffrey jones, and tim robbins. The film that killed lea thompsons career, made it apparent that george lucas is a quack no pun intended, and ruined feather boas for everyone, howard the duck is a movie that never should have been made. With a lowly 7 percent critics score and 16 percent audience score on rotten tomatoes. You may have heard about howard the ducks blinkandyoullmissit cameo in the film, and aitken told me just how long hes actually in the film and how howards presence. The film then degenerates into an extended chase, as howard and beverly are pursued by government agents who want to capture howard before he can be.
Lets just get this out of the way right from the start. Based on a relatively obscure marvel comics character, howard the duck is a 1986 liveaction movie about howard, an anthropomorphic duck who is accidentally zapped to earth during the testfiring of a laser during the course of the movie, howard must get used to his surroundings in the human world, while trying to find his way back home. As a matter of fact, this is one case when id actually recommend reading the novelisation over watching the movie. Howard the duck the character, not howard the duck the little person. In this scifi comedy from executive producer george lucas, howard the duck is an extraterrestrial fowl who is accidentally beamed to earth by physicist dr. Howard the duck 1986 one of the few marvel comics film adaptions of the 1980s, the liveaction retelling of an alien duck arriving on earth was not as popular as george lucas might have hoped.
The pair seem suitably chosen for howards anarchic take on comic book tropes. From george lucas comes the atrociously awful comic book film howard the duck. James gunn said howard the duck was his favorite marvel character since childhood, then he dislikes howard the duck film since it ever released most of the actors had trouble finding work because of this film. Seth rogens livetweeting of cats while pretty stoned. Back in 1986 george lucas produced howard the duck, based on the marvel character of the same name. This film is lowestrated marvel movie on rotten tomatoes, at 15%. The working title for this film was spring break in bosnia before being changed to the hunting party during postproduction. What went so wrong that a great comic became a terrible film. List of films with a zeropercent rating on rotten tomatoes what its about. Its not the first time the fowl hero has appeared on film, of course as much as many people would like to forget the existence of the 1986 flop howard the duck producer george lucas may. Howard the duck 1986 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. The screenplay was originally intended to be an animated film, but the film adaptation. Seemingly lacking in plot and direction, the film is essentially a mishmash of a duckoutofwater story and an alien.
I had the pleasure of meeting lea thompson and ed gale the man who played howard the duck at a convention. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But howard the duck is just one big empty birddropping, with obnoxious characters, tinny 1980s synthpop music, heavy drinkingpartying, death rays, monsters, repetitious and thrillfree carchase scenes, badtaste gags a few revolving around the potential of humanduck lovemaking, merciless avian puns maybe tim robbins got cast solely on. The real reason howard the duck was a total flop looper. It starred lea thompson, jeffrey jones, tim robbins and chip zien as the voice of howard. The hunting party is a 2007 american actionadventurethriller film with elements of political activism and dark satire starring richard gere, terrence howard, diane kruger, jesse eisenberg and ljubomir kerekes. The year of its release, it received 7 golden raspberries nominations and won 4.
A new breed of hero in europe is a 1986 liveaction film produced by lucasfilm and universal pictures, directed by willard huyck from a script by huyck and his wife gloria katz. With lea thompson, jeffrey jones, tim robbins, ed gale. Film website rotten tomatoes gives the film a score of. Howard the duck is the singleworst film based on a marvel comics character. As of the time of this writing, howard the duck has a 15% on rotten tomatoes, a score which has only risen recently, as it has become a cult favorite. Howard looks like a donald duckbranded sex toy, patently plastic beak moving creepily in time with his enthusiastic voice actors dulcet tones. February 10, 2008 was an american comic book writer best known for cocreating the satiric marvel comics character howard the duck and a characterdefining run. The screenplay was originally intended to be an animated film based on the marvel comic book of the same name, but the film adaptation became live action because of a contractual obligation. Patak howard je americka science fiction filmska komedija snimljena 1986.
Despite the recent shift in power as jeph loeb steps down from marvel tv and kevin feige starts to oversee. Howard the duck movie madness, wherein rotten tomatoes watches all of the significant marvel movies ever made. But as with almost all of howards solo outings, it will probably end. The film begins with howard the duck voiced by chip zien, who lives in a parallel universe inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks. Set during the events of 1991s animated masterpiece, beauty and the beast. While it has its moments, howard the duck suffers from an uneven tone and mediocre performances. So i went ahead and created a trailer for this sequel that will never really be. Sadly, there will never be a sequel made to howard the duck. Which you know, if you read last weeks column, in which we looked at wikipedias list of films with. Besides howard who was portrayed by an assortment of stunt actors in duck suits, the only character borrowed from the comic book was beverly.
Based on the marvel comic book of the same name, the film was produced by gloria katz and written by huyck and katz, with george lucas as executive producer. It was a tough call between this film, howard the duck, and batman and robin for the number 1 spot. If it can get out from under the shadow of the infamous howard the duck feature film, the irreverent humor baked into the premise should keep this around for a few seasons. Catwoman is my favorite female comic book character. The logic behind this eye raping of epic proportions is muddled, the material being based off a comic strip. A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to earth where he must stop a hellish alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a cute struggling female rock singer who fancies him. Ive loved howard the duck ever since i saw it as a kid back in the 80s when it came out on vhs. Howards exploits do nothing to combat this image either.
Howard the duck was the first theatrically released feature film. The poorly received alien movie was destroyed by the critics, with an embarrassing score of. Released 30 years ago, howard the duck may still go down in history as one of the worst movies ever. Howard spends his days smoking, drinking and reading the latest issue of playduck. Like the film itself, the soundtrack album has its own appreciative. Shortly after rogen and others completed their livetweet experiences, the writer of howard the duck jack waz shared an anecdote on twitter about a. The 5 best and 5 worst marvel movies, according to rotten. Marvel made a three issue comic based on the movie called howard the duck. The best way to describe the look and feel of it is, in a word, gross. The enchanted christmas retroactively hurts disneys classic. But i rarely let such things stop me from having a good time. I try to be spoiler free, but the older the movie, the less careful i am.