Howard the Duck Page #3

Synopsis: A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Director(s): Willard Huyck
Production: Universal Pictures
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.6
Metacritic:
28
Rotten Tomatoes:
15%
PG
Year:
1986
110 min
2,107 Views


- Phil, yu gtta help us!

- What are we gnna d?

- Nice ducky.

Me Phil, yu Hward.

We be friends.

Undubtedly n f Earth's

greatest minds here.

Hey Phil, dn't talk to him like that.

He's just as smart as yu are.

- Nw I'm really depressed.

- Highly intelligent, perhaps even...

Wait, that's it.

We're abut to see...

...if subject has any abilities

we dn't have n Earth, any...

- What?

...shall we say, super pwers?

Hward!

Can yu bend this?

- What are yu, crazy?

- Hward...

...can yu burn a hle through this

with sme kind f eye laser?

Can I bite yur nse ff

with my super bill?

Hward, quit hlding ut.

I want yu to cncentrate...

...and read my mind.

- Right. Yu're thinking:

"hey knw I'm a phny.

hey knw I'm a y- y."

Tell me if I'm warm

n any f these, Phil.

I want yu to lk into the future

and tell me what yu see.

- I see myself walking ut that dr!

- Yeah, me to.

- N, n, n, wait! Yu can't leae.

- Yeah, why nt?

Because there are papers to be written,

there's research to be dne...

...and there's sympsiums to give,

lecture tours.

Hward, we are n ur way

to the Science Hall f Fame.

Lk ut, Darwin! Lk ut, Einstein!

Hell, Nbel Prize!

We're nt here

to make yu famus, Blumburtt.

Beverly, listen,

I never bad-muthed thers...

...in the scientific fraternity, but yu

bring in an alien in a bag to mst guys...

...and Wham!

They are talking.

Let's cut him into little pieces

and see what clr his rgans are.

I just wanna knw:

A:
What I'm ding here?

And B:

Hw I'm gnna get back?

Piece f cake.

A:
I'm just the guy to help...

And that's because B,

I'e already gt a thery.

- What thery?

- Well, this is, f curse...

...the evlutinary ladder

shwing hw man progressed...

...frm mnkey, to me, fr instance.

- Yu cnsider that progress?

Geez... Yu're all hairless apes?

hat's really disgusting.

Nw, I want yu bth to imagine

smewhere in the unierse...

...is Hward's wrld.

Picture it in yur mind.

A wrld

almst exactly like urs...

...except that the progenitor

f the dminant species...

...was nt a mnkey but a duck!

- Sme thery...

Every schI duck

knws this stuff!

And as duck climbed up

the evlutinary ladder...

...he said adis to his wings.

His mental capacity increases.

He begins to develp.

Beverly?

- Shpping malls?

- N, tribes.

Cr- Magnn Duck,

whultimately evlves into Hward.

Hey Blumburtt?

Blumburtt?

- Cme n!

- What the hell are yu ding?

- What?

- Dn't moe! Dn't breathe!

Did yu finish cleaning

up the specimen lab?

Almst finished.

Well, get dwn to the

Marine Lift Exhibit with a mp.

Sme kid upchucked

all ver the fern fssils.

Right.

Gd as dne, Dr. Chapin.

S, Philsey, yu are

a scientist r a janitor?

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Steve Gerber

Stephen Ross "Steve" Gerber (; September 20, 1947 – February 10, 2008) was an American comic book writer best known for co-creating the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck and a character-defining run on Man-Thing, one of their monster properties. Other notable works include Omega the Unknown, Marvel Spotlight: "Son of Satan," The Defenders, Marvel Presents: "Guardians of the Galaxy," Daredevil and Foolkiller. Gerber was known for including lengthy text pages in the midst of comic book stories, such as in his graphic novel, Stewart the Rat. Gerber was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2010. more…

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