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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy, DVD Movie, Blu-ray Movie, Comedy |
Format | Subtitled, Widescreen, AC-3, Color, NTSC, Dolby, Multiple Formats, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Special Edition See more |
Contributor | Steve Sleap, Lisa Sturz, Ed Gale, Jordan Prentice, Tim Robbins, Gloria Katz, George Lucas, Tim Rose, Lea Thompson, Chip Zien, Mary Wells, Willard Huyck, Peter Baird, Jeffrey Jones, Paul Guilfoyle See more |
Language | French, Spanish, English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 51 minutes |
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One of the most talked-about movies of all time, Howard the Duck, lands on DVD for the first time ever in an all-new Special Edition! From executive producer George Lucas and the pages of Marvel Comics comes this unbelievably funny comedy about a fast-talking, cigar-chomping, beer-loving duck from a parallel universe who crashes to Earth. Featuring brand-new bonus features, a digitally remastered picture and new 5.1 surround sound, Howard the Duck Special Edition is a hidden treasure the whole family can enjoy.
Bonus Content:
- A Look Back at Howard the Duck
- Releasing the Duck
- News Featurette
- The Stunts of Howard the Duck
- The Special Effects of Howard the Duck
- The Music of Howard the Duck
- Teaser Trailers
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If you concentrate on the fact that Howard the Duck was a notorious box office dud (still brought up today) and considered one of the worst films of the '80s, it's entirely possible to enjoy this special effects piffle. Howard, played by a special effect puppet, lives on a planet where ducks evolved instead of apes, but one day he's sucked into a vortex and deposited on Earth. There he befriends Beverly Switzler (Lea Thompson), lead singer for the Cherry Bombs, becomes their manager, and, oh yeah, saves the Earth from the Dark Overlords. Jeffrey Jones is the villain and Tim Robbins (!) is there for comic relief. And who can resist the culmination of synthesizer pop, the Howard the Duck theme song, as realized by the Cherry Bombs? A midnight movie that your kids might watch more than you. --Keith Simanton
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 2.88 ounces
- Item model number : 1106119
- Director : Willard Huyck
- Media Format : Subtitled, Widescreen, AC-3, Color, NTSC, Dolby, Multiple Formats, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Special Edition
- Run time : 1 hour and 51 minutes
- Release date : March 10, 2009
- Actors : Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English
- Producers : Gloria Katz, George Lucas
- Language : Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Universal Studios
- ASIN : B001MWUWU8
- Writers : Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #17,041 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #10,081 in DVD
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For 30 years it has been called 'the biggest flop of all time' and other such terrible labels. Well, it cost $30 million dollars (nothing compared to today's budgets, inflation or no inflation) and took $37 million worldwide and that's not even counting the higher-than-you-think rental revenue. Add it altogether and HTD is most definitely NOT the flop it is accused of being. But since it was a rather eccentric (and occasionally raunchy) family comedy (an easy target) and one of the first films to significantly under-perform at the domestic box office (George Lucas expected the returns to be astronomical) it became a scapegoat for bad studio spending and taste.
I guess that the world needs something or someone to blame when pop culture goes wrong and the jackass critics I mentioned already seized upon Howard's failings to make a name for themselves. Derogatory soundbites are easy to come up with and everyone who hated the film used some kind of duck-themed insult to put it down and make themselves feel clever. But, when you think about it, these are basically the same people who will deliberately give a bad film a great review just to see their own name on the poster. You ever see a recent M. Night Shyamalan movie with quotations on the poster? They exist.
The film also suffered a further bad rep when George Lucas publicly disowned the film. It's under-performance forced him to sell off a part of his company which went on to become Pixar (think of how much he could have earned if he didn't) and it really made him quite angry. Wouldn't you be? But I consider this a good thing as Lucas owning Pixar would have been disasterous. Howard's failure stopped Lucas from having too much power and I am happy with that.
I am a huge fan of the late Steve Gerber's comic-books. HTD was basically the first BIG comic-book movie and came surprisingly soon after he found success in his own series. Howard first appeared in an issue of Man-Thing and starred in a few other issues of Conan and even Spider-Man before Marvel gave him his own wings in the late 70s. The comic-book stories are the most surreal, archaic and satirical I have ever read and it's a shame that they had to tone it down for the movie, but that's to be expected.
As an ordinary duck working for an advertising company on his home planet of Duckworld, Howard is blasted across the universe right out of his living room by an experimental laser developed by Dr. Jenning (Jeffrey Jones). He lands in Cleveland, where he meets Beverly Switzler (a super-duper cute Lea Thompson) a rock singer who takes him under her wing...I mean arm. Now trapped in a world he never made the one attempt at sending him back home unleashes the forces of the Dark Overlord of the Universe on Earth through the possession of Dr. Jenning and he intends to bring more of his demons through the portal. Yeah, that sounds pretty heavy. (Weight has nothing to do with it)
I'm actually a sucker for duck-related stuff. I don't know why. Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Duckman etc. The list goes on and on. What I particularly like about the HTD movie is how most people seem to be completely at ease at talking to a humanoid bird and Howard himself is A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E.
Some of the fairer critics claimed that the film might have been a bigger hit if they had used CGI or traditional animation to bring Howard to life, but I must disagree. Part of the appeal of Howard is the fact that he is actually physically there and not some ghost who has been photo-shopped in afterwards. I love the duck suit, to me it is completely convincing and Chip Zien's voice work is perfect. I'd totally love to have Howard as a pal. The special effects are also a perfect mix of genuine stuntwork, optical fireworks from ILM, and outlandish stop-motion creatures courtesy of Phil Tippett.
No joke, this film has a unfairly notorious history and a totally wrong perception by the general public or those who turned their noses and beaks up when it came out in 1986. Clear your head of any preconceptions that you might have and enjoy it on its own level. Though we really could have done without that silly narration over the opening title.
The Blu-ray looks great in 1.85:1 1080p with DTS HD-MA 5.1 sound and a lot of good extras. Totally worth buying.
One of the really funny and interesting outcomes of this movie is that in the years after its release, it became a kind of cult hit, and images of Howard the Duck started popping up in all kinds of cutting-edge visionary art around the world, including in lots of pieces of graffiti art on walls in cities. This has been going on for over 30 years now, and nowhere in the world is Howard the Duck more evident, and plentiful, than in the graffiti art to be found on the walls and other surfaces in the Lower East Side (LES) of New York City.
For an example, although I live in the rural Appalachian mountains, I travel to NYC a lot, at least three times per year, for perhaps 10 to 14 days at a time. On my most recent stay in NYC, a 17 day day in a hotel on the Lower East Side, I encountered images of Howard the Duck in graffiti art in each of over a half-dozen places. Most of the graffiti art installations depicting images of Howard were large images painted on walls and other vertical surfaces (such as bridge abutments) just off of sidewalks, but even in the hotel in which I was staying in the LES, I noticed that in their gigantic uber-trendy lobby seating area, which has a ceiling over 24 feet high, there were a few giant posters mounted displaying local graffiti art, and one of the posters featured a locally-well-known piece of graffiti art showing Howard the Duck emerging from a sewer manhole onto a sidewalk.
And, just a block or two from my hotel, there was a locally-famous trendy pub that featured great food, including great burgers. I often ate dinner there with some of my clients from around the world, and it was a great pleasure to be able to turn my head to the left and gaze at an 8 foot high graffiti art mural on the wall nearest our table; the mural showed Howard the Duck walking determinedly on a littered sidewalk in a desolate post-apocalyptic street scene in an abandoned industrial area, having just emerged from a storm drain pipe opening on a wall nearby.
So, the bottom line is that Howard the Duck and his amazing story has managed to infiltrate and seep down to the deepest levels of human consciousness and the collective unconscious, and images of him repeatedly emerge across the world in all sorts of spontaneous works of visionary art.
That fact alone should qualify this film as a masterpiece!
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Le canard est très bien animé pour l'époque et Léa Thompson est toute mimi dans ce rôle.
Je peux comprendre que le film ait été boudé à sa sortie mais les adeptes du 1er degré, n'achetez surtout pas ce film!
La qualité d'image est pas optimale mais pour un film de 1986 c'est très correct, et c'est ce qui fait son charme.
El objetivo de Howard The Duck es hace pasar un rato agradable, y lo logra pese a su tono infantilista. El personaje de Howard está bien hecho, los FX son destacados (la escena de Jennings tomando energía del encendedor del camión es impresionante) y si bien las actuaciones no son ganadoras de un premio Oscar, tampoco son malas. ¿Aunque quién diría que aquel Tim Robbins ayudante de laboratorio medio loco y medio tonto, se convertiría en el soberbio actor que es hoy en día? En fin, un más que correcto filme que siempre causará opiniones encontradas, pero que yo atesoro en mi baúl de los recuerdos.
La película en Blu ray está muy bien , se nota el salto al HD, se ve de lujo diría yo, aunque los efectos especiales cantan mucho sobre todo en la parte final y en algunas escenas algo oscuras canta el grano, pero un un par de ellas nada más. el resto de lujo como digo.
El Audio en Castellano según la contra carátula, pone 2.0 HD DTS, se oye bastante bien, genial en ese aspecto
En los extras, tiene variados extras pero ninguno está subtitulado, una verdadera lástima, aunque no sean una duración mayor se veian interesantes, la calidad eso si no es en HD de ninguno.
En conclusión, quien le guste esta película , no debería pensarse en adquirirla, no se quedará defraudado con la compra, quizás, un poco en los extras por no subtitularlos, pero al menos tenemos esta edición editada en España, sólo darle las gracias a Resen por sacarla y no tener que esperar eternamente , en este caso por universal (gracias por nada) y en disco prensado como debe ser .
ASIN: B016MU4GEC
Reviewed in Canada on October 3, 2022