Howard the Duck
1986  PG  SCIENCE FICTION  1h 41min
CAST— Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Paul Guilfoyle, Holly Robinson, Miles Chapin, Virginia Capers, David Paymer, Thomas Dolby
MUSIC— John Barry  DIRECTOR— William Huyck  BASED ON— Characters appearing in Marvel Comics

     George (Star Wars) Lucas presents a massive bomb in this total misfire that tries to blend cynical humor, evil forces and a punker attitude. Sounds like a winner, huh? A total loser from the beginning introduces the cinematic world to Howard the Duck, a beer-drinking, cigar-smoking reader of Playduck magazine. He suddenly gets sucked out of his comfy apartment and blasted down to Earth by an unknown force. He happens upon a punk rocker with a heart of gold with whom he finds shelter. Her ditsy friend introduces them to a brilliant mind who says that he has a laser beam that will send Howard back home. But during an initial test of the laser something goes horribly awry; instead of an object being sent back into space interdimentional monsters begin to invade Earth. And there’s only one bold enough to take on this new menace: a wisecracking, 3’ 2” quack-fu master named Howard. That pretty much does it for this one; if you still wanna take a look you must either be stalking George Lucas or you’re one sick Marvel fanboy.
OUR RATING— *