Film Details

The first Marvel Comics-derived theatrical movie of the post-WWII era was a critical and box office disaster. Produced by George Lucas and written by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (the three also collaborated on American Graffiti and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), the film tells of a talking, anthropomorphic duck from outer space who suddenly finds himself in Cleveland. There he falls for a punk singer (Lea Thompson) and battles another alien interloper, the evil "Dark Overlord" (Jeffrey Jones). With the overwhelming success of subsequent Marvel movies and Howard's cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy (to say nothing of Cleveland's waning inferiority complex), now seems a good time to re-evaluate this infamous fiasco.