Howard duck

The 27-year-old Howard Duck lives in Duck World, a planet similar to Earth but inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks that revolves around two moons. When he reads the last issue of Playduck magazine, his chair begins to shake violently and pushes him out of the house into outer space; Howard eventually lands on Earth in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon arrival, Howard meets a woman who is attacked by bandits. He defeats them using a unique martial arts style. After the robbers run away, the woman introduces herself as Beverly Switzler and decides to take Howard to her apartment and let him spend the night. The next day, Beverly introduces Howard to Phil Blumbert, a prospective scientist who, Beverly hopes, can help Howard return to his world. After Phil turned out to be just a janitor, Howard resigned himself to life on Earth and rejected Beverly’s help. Soon, he claims to be a janitor at a local romantic spa. Howard soon leaves and returns to Beverly, who plays in a band called Cherry Bomb. At the club where Cherry Bomb performs, Howard confronts their manager and confronts him when he offends the group. A fight breaks out in which Howard wins.

Howard returns to Beverly backstage after the band's performance and accompanies her back to the apartment, where Beverly convinces him to become the new manager of the group. They begin to flirt, but they are interrupted by Blumbert and two of his colleagues, who say that the laser spectroscope they invented was aimed at the Howard planet and delivered it to Earth when it was activated. They suggest that Howard can be sent back to his world by reversing the same process. Upon arrival at the laboratory, the laser spectroscope malfunctions, which increases the likelihood that something else can be delivered to Earth. At this point, Dr. Walter Jenning is obsessed with a life form from a distant space region. When they visit the diner, the creature presents itself as the “Dark Lord of the Universe” and demonstrates his mental abilities, destroying cutlery and seasonings. The fight begins when a group of truckers in a diner begins to insult Howard. Howard is captured and nearly killed by the diner cook, but Jenning / Dark Lord destroys the diner and escapes with Beverly.

Howard finds Phil arrested for his presence in the laboratory without permission from the security service. After they run away, they discover an ultralight aircraft that they use to search for the Dark Lord and Beverly. In the laboratory, the Dark Lord links Beverly and plans to transfer another of his creatures to her body using a measuring machine. Howard and Phil arrive and, apparently, destroy the Dark Lord with the help of the experimental “neutron disintegrator”. However, the creature was expelled only from Jenning's body. The Dark Lord reveals his true form at this moment. Howard launches a neutron disintegrator in a disgusting beast, destroying him. Then he destroys the laser spectroscope, preventing the arrival of new Dark Lords, as well as destroying the only chance to return to his planet. Howard then becomes Beverly’s manager, hires Phil as an employee on her tour, and plays guitar with Beverly on stage.

• Chip Zane - Duck Howard (voice)
• Jeffrey Jones - Dr. Jenning / Dark Lord in his body
• Leah Thompson - Beverly
• Tim Robbins - Phil
• Richard Keely - The Storyteller in Space

The film received a number of awards and nominations: ^[1]

Golden Raspberry Award ( 1987 ) :

• Awards

worst movie ( Gloria Katz )

worst case scenario ( Gloria Katz , Willard Hike )

worse visual effects ( Industrial Light & Magic )

Worst New Star - ( Duck Howard )

• Nominations

worst male supporting role ( Tim Robbins )

worst director ( Willard Hike )

worst song - “Howard the Duck” - authors: Thomas Dolby, Ellie Willis and George Clinton

worst movie of the decade (1990)

• Executive producer George Lucas spent $ 2 million on Howard's duck costume, and eight different actors worked in the costume.
• Leah Thompson independently performed all the songs, as well as the other actresses in the group. In an interview for the 2009 DVD edition, Thompson says that even during the shooting, the studio did not make the final decision as to whether to leave Thompson's original voice or duplicate it.
• Howard Duck was coined by Steve Gerber and Val Meyeric and first appeared in Adventure into Fear # 19 in 1973. ^[2]
• The Howard duck appears after the final credits of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie with Benicio Del Toro as a collector and Cosmo dog ^[3] .
• The film is one of the worst comic book films by Marvel Comics , along with the films Captain America , Fantastic Four , Leshy and Elektra , although the film itself was released much earlier than the above.

• August 1, 1986 - USA, 4,392,400 people.
• December 6, 1986 - Japan
• December 10, 1986 - France
• December 11, 1986 - Netherlands
• December 12, 1986 - Great Britain
• December 18, 1986 - Australia
• December 18, 1986 - Germany (Germany)
• December 19, 1986 - Austria
• December 19, 1986 - Portugal
• December 19, 1986 - Finland
• December 19, 1986 - Sweden
• December 22, 1986 - Spain
• December 25, 1986 - Brazil
• December 26, 1986 - Denmark
• December 26, 1986 - Norway
• January 2, 1987 - Ireland

In July 1986, Willard Hayk and Gloria Katz announced that they were interested in creating a sequel to the film ^[4] . However, after the film failed at the box office, talk of continuing continued.

• Howard the Duck on the Internet Movie Database