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While it has its moments, Howard the Duck suffers from an uneven tone and mediocre performances.
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As you watch "Howard the Duck," you get the vivid sensation that you're watching not a movie, but a pile of money being poured down the drain. Jan 2, 2018 | Full Review…
As you watch "Howard the Duck," you get the vivid sensation that you're watching not a movie, but a pile of money being poured down the drain.
Paul Attanasio
In the absence of anything resembling structure, character, point of view or sense of purpose, there is no place else for this empty project to go. Jul 9, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
In the absence of anything resembling structure, character, point of view or sense of purpose, there is no place else for this empty project to go.
Dave Kehr
What can you say about a comedy in which the biggest laugh is in the end credits? Jul 9, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
What can you say about a comedy in which the biggest laugh is in the end credits?
Carrie Rickey
Reservations aside, it's hard to fault the tongue-in-bill high spirits of a movie like Howard the Duck. Jul 9, 2014 | Full Review…
Reservations aside, it's hard to fault the tongue-in-bill high spirits of a movie like Howard the Duck.
Jay Boyar
For all those who cottoned to the charm of the comic books, the duck stops here. Jul 9, 2014 | Full Review…
For all those who cottoned to the charm of the comic books, the duck stops here.
Sheila Benson
The movie is too scuzzy to beguile children, too infantile to appeal to adults. Jul 9, 2014 | Full Review…
The movie is too scuzzy to beguile children, too infantile to appeal to adults.
Richard Corliss
Howard the Duck is the single-worst film based on a Marvel Comics character to come into existence. Jun 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Howard the Duck is the single-worst film based on a Marvel Comics character to come into existence.
Danielle Solzman
A fun and fast paced piece of eighties schlock... Jul 29, 2016 | Full Review…
A fun and fast paced piece of eighties schlock...
Felix Vasquez Jr.
The first big-screen adaptation of a Marvel comic book makes their subsequent films seem like the flowers that bloom beneath a heavy load of dense fertilizer. Jun 18, 2016 | Full Review…
The first big-screen adaptation of a Marvel comic book makes their subsequent films seem like the flowers that bloom beneath a heavy load of dense fertilizer.
Jason Bailey
The best to cling to is that some of the elements are merely insipid and not actively rancid. Jul 4, 2015 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…
The best to cling to is that some of the elements are merely insipid and not actively rancid.
Tim Brayton
In duck talk, it's a quacker -- noisy and shrill. Jul 9, 2014 | Full Review…
In duck talk, it's a quacker -- noisy and shrill.
Joe Baltake
The sad fact is that the duck gets lost in what becomes a special effects film suspiciously reminiscent of Ghostbusters. Jul 9, 2014 | Full Review…
The sad fact is that the duck gets lost in what becomes a special effects film suspiciously reminiscent of Ghostbusters.
Candice Russell
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