The year was 1986 and little-known George Lucas had been scraping by with writing, directing and producing a number of small scale, dead-end films about archaeology (fictional Time-Team) and fisticuffs in space, or something. Finally, his big beak/break had arrived with the Sci-Fi comedy production that would deliver him from obscurity and define his career.
Plot: Our hero is Howard, an anthropomorphic duck that lives on a planet where his kind are the civilised species (whether this planet contains naked humans, wading through ponds & eating discarded bread, is never explored). When Earth's scientists fire up an experimental extra-dimensional laser, our web-footed friend is sent hurtling through space, to Cleveland and into the arms of Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), a rocker that takes to the idea of bestiality all too quickly (what would Marty McFly think?!). So, it's down to Howard to save the day from the dark Overlords of the universe, one of which takes the form of Jeffrey Jones (Beetlejuice).
Some of the more unsavoury content includes; duck boobs, duck prophylactics and the plight of forced duck labour in the brothel/hot tub industry.
Line of the film: "Hostility is like a psychic boomerang".
Budget: $35,000,000
Gross: $37,962,774
Fun Fact: Howard the Duck is a Marvel Comics character. When the film tanked, LucasFilms was forced to sell off their CGI division. Lucas sold it to his mate, Steve Jobs and it later became the Pixar Animation Studio. The Apple co-founder bought it for $5 mil in '86, Disney bought it for $7.4 BILLION in 2006. Well Duck me!!
review by Callum Stockdale.
Plot: Our hero is Howard, an anthropomorphic duck that lives on a planet where his kind are the civilised species (whether this planet contains naked humans, wading through ponds & eating discarded bread, is never explored). When Earth's scientists fire up an experimental extra-dimensional laser, our web-footed friend is sent hurtling through space, to Cleveland and into the arms of Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), a rocker that takes to the idea of bestiality all too quickly (what would Marty McFly think?!). So, it's down to Howard to save the day from the dark Overlords of the universe, one of which takes the form of Jeffrey Jones (Beetlejuice).
Some of the more unsavoury content includes; duck boobs, duck prophylactics and the plight of forced duck labour in the brothel/hot tub industry.
Line of the film: "Hostility is like a psychic boomerang".
Budget: $35,000,000
Gross: $37,962,774
Fun Fact: Howard the Duck is a Marvel Comics character. When the film tanked, LucasFilms was forced to sell off their CGI division. Lucas sold it to his mate, Steve Jobs and it later became the Pixar Animation Studio. The Apple co-founder bought it for $5 mil in '86, Disney bought it for $7.4 BILLION in 2006. Well Duck me!!
review by Callum Stockdale.
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