Hey everybody, Just realized that I didn't clarify it in the video, but I wanted to mention that what I meant to say is that Howard the Duck is the first Marvel Comics character to have a theatrical release in the U.S. . Sorry, sometimes my brain don't work so good 😕. Cheers, Matthew
Oh my god girl that truly was an awesome reaction that was just perfect especially the part where the snake came out of the guys mouth Haha. Please you both need to do reaction video of A league of their own with tom hanks and dumb and dumber incase you die see it. Definitely worth doing
Ahh Howard the Duck that one weird Marvel character that has a special camoe in Avengers Endgame I like the fact about it being the first marvel comic character to get a theatrical release. Sort of reminds me of people talking about Black Panther being the first black superhero, and then I sit and think, hmm what about Blade did you all forget about him?
I feel like we witnessed Emily go through the 5 stages of grief, just out of order, lol. This is probably one of the funniest overall reactions to a movie I've seen
Gotta remember that "PG" originally stands for "Parental Guidance", specifically meaning it contains scenes that some parents may not deem appropriate for their children. Somehow these days it has morphed to mean child-friendly.
PG was supposed to be family friendly--a movie that a kid should watch with their parents but all could enjoy. In the 80s, there was clearly a big gap between something like The Dark Crystal and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Movies like this one helped bring about PG-13.
After being established in 1984, it took a while for the ratings board members associate all of this content with PG-13 material. "Top Gun" came out that same summer and was PG with its innuendo and light profanity; it would easily be PG-13 now.
If the PG-13 rating existed prior to this film, then this definitely would've had that rating. While I at it, u guys remember that NC-17 rating? I remember only one film that has that rating, it was Dreamscape also from the 80's, but that rating didn't seem to last
Duck walks into a drugstore, says "I need a condom." Clerk says, "Do you want me to put it on your bill?" Duck says, "Hey pal, I'm not THAT kind of duck!".
I unironically hate this movie. We rented this for my birthday when it first came out on vhs. I had a few friends over and none of us were able to sit through it. But the pizza was great.
@@JDelwynn Check out the Howard the Duck comic books, they're really great. Don't let the film make you view negatively of the Howard the Duck franchise. Howard the Duck franchise is at its best in the comic book run.
No he can ever truly be prepared for the cinematic masterpiece that is Howard the duck. Is it good? Duck no it's not but man it's just stupid enough to be bearable in the right way.
Hey, I always liked the movie. The acting is great, the PG rating meant my parents let me see it when I was 10. As I got older, I realized how actually true to comics it was: Howard references his Mastery of Quack-Fu (in the comics, he is considered good enough to take on some of the best Earth Martial Artists), he is crude (albeit dialed down from his comics) at times, snarky, dashing, and witty. His encounter with the Employment Worker is a shout out to his comic troubles (He's eventually a Cleveland Cabbie most of the time) finding work. His on again off again relationship with Beverley (Life Model, not musician, in the comics when they met, she married and had children with Howard's Archnemesis, Doctor Bong, then divorced him and got back with Howard, and after leaving Howard again and going to Veterinarian School, she opened her own Vet Clinic called Scales and Tales with a slight bit of help from Howard calling in a reality warping favor), the weirdness of Howard's foes (The Dark Overlords are based heavily off the Dire Wraiths and Brood combined) in spite of his seeking to live as normal a life as possible besides seeking a way home... His Space Rabies threat was always hysterical to me, as well as his acrobatic Duck-Fu display.
Though it was horrible, "Howard the Duck," and numerous other films were the reason growing up in '80s, with the _old_ PG rating, was great fun. We Gen-Xers were probably the better for it.
This is one of those movies that, while I really can't argue that it's a good movie, I still enjoy it. I'd rather watch it over quite a few critically acclaimed movies.
As flawed this movie is, I do honestly really enjoy it. It's the film I usually re-watch and always have fun with it. As much as I love the film though, Howard the Duck definately deserves a much better movie that captures the great quality of the Howard the Duck comic books.
Slapstick has always been my least favourite style of comedy, but I'm completely able to overlook it when watching "TGMBC", as it's such a joyous little film.
New to this channel, Howard the Duck is one of my all time favorite movies and I have to say I get that not everyone is going to love it, I think you were fair with it at least.
by far, my favorite part of "Howard the Duck" was this reaction. The shock on your face was priceless, and the excuse for what was going on on screen, "well, it was the 80s"
A fine wine of so bad it's good movies. I immediately lost it when you saw the Playduck magazine and bathtub bits and burst into laughter. My dad looked at me with an odd grin as if I was crazy over me laughing at my phone in hysterics! Total win!
"Howard the Duck" - a movie most fowl. A way better '80s movie is the cult classic "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" (1984) which I watch once a year at least. It stars Peter Weller of "Robocop" and also has Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Ellen Barkin.
Read the comic books, they are excellent. The technology simply wasn't there to do the character justice. It's like trying to make an X-Men film back in the 80s. The movie also should have been R rated.
@@Rocket1377 Exactly. I collected a lot of old Howard the Duck comics that I still have to this day. The Howard the Duck comic book series is my favorite comic book series of all time. I really enjoy the stories, the characters, and the writing is top-notch. George Lucas wanted to make a Howard the Duck film because he really enjoys the comics and he wanted it to be an animated film, but Universal force George to change his plans from turning an animated film to live action since Universal wanted it to be a big summer block-buster film. If you ask me, the film should've been an animated film.
You should check out the dark comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. It's a classic and nobody is reacting to it.
Having seen this movie, I already knew what Emily's reaction to… certain scenes during the "duck planet" intro would be. All that's left is to sing the theme song: ♪ _Duck Tits! Woo-oo!_ ♪ Tonally and structurally, this movie is a mess, true, but it got tarred with a much worse reputation than it ever deserved. Worse, Studio execs used its poor box office performance as a cudgel to beat down _any_ form of "genre" movie for many, many years afterwards. How was this PG? Well, you have to remember that until mid-1984 there _was_ no rating between R and PG; anything that wasn't hard enough to earn an R was "PG" and, as the initials suggest, it was supposed to be the parents' job to judge whether their kids could or could not handle a specific film. Obviously, parents were _not_ willing to put up with that; they wanted everything neatly categorised for them, so that they could park their kids in front of the TV or in a cinema without ever having to engage the ol' brainbox even for one second - hence PG-13 was born. At the time of this movie, the new rating had only been out for a short while (in movie-production terms) and the industry was still working out what exactly the lines were. "PG" didn't really start to mean what you now understand by it, until some years later.
I saw this in the theater alone when it was first released. I was a huge comic book nerd, and I was disappointed this didn't really follow the strange comic it takes its name from. Nevertheless, it is one of my favorite bad movies. Your reaction to it was fabulous. More stinkers!
"Look at those quackers!" And Duck Danglers! Oh yeah. Miss Emily is going to like this one. It's so utterly craptastic, that it's one of my favorite movies. It makes me laugh so hard I cry. I know that it bombed big time, but I saw it when for the first time when I was a kid. It was rated PG because it wasn't bad enough to be rated R, and there was no PG-13 at the time. This is one long duck joke and it's all over the place. Incidentally, I've heard the devils lettuce help this movie immensely... so I've heard you understand... What my man was saying about the comics is totally true. They're pretty dark, and they're fun books. Again, I'm glad you did this one and that you pretty much enjoyed it. It's the king of bad movies. PS. I'm down in FL and I was wondering where yall are, just out of curiosity. You're obviously from God's country! I hope yall both have a wonderful evening. I love laughing with yall.
Yes they did have the PG 13 rating at this time. Red Dawn was the first movie to get the new rating in 1984. Two years before Howard the Duck was released.
I loved this movie as a kid. The look on Emily’s face the first time seeing the “duck danglers” was h-I-larious!!!! Thank y’all so much for all the laughs y’all have given us and please keep it up!
Watching them react has taught me that I really shouldn't be drinking anything during the review. When it got to that part I had to rewind it because how random do you hear duck danglers? Had to wipe the screen as well. So I'll wait until after the review or I will pause it before I drink anything because they're that funny.
I LOVED this movie as a kid. Seriously. I was the ONLY person in my entire town who liked it. Every single time I bribed mom or grandma to rent it for me, as soon as the people in the rental place saw me, they would instantly say “your movie is here. You people are literally the only ones that rent it. We would just give it to you but we would be losing $40 a week” and I remember my mother saying “don’t you dare ever offer to give us that damn movie. Please. I couldn’t handle it.” After watching it as an adult I totally understand what she meant 😂😂😂 it’s sooooooo bad and cringy, but I suppose that’s what makes it awesome
Fun fact: My EXTREMELY religious Mother rented this in 1995 for the kids at the family reunion when I was 16. Having already seen it I couldn't contain my laughter when I asked where ALL the kids were and she said, "they're in the basement watching 'A Duck Named Howard'".... When I told her what the movie was about you would've thought I said Satan himself was sacrificing babies in the basement considering the STAMPEDE of Christians I witnessed.... 🤣🤣
The 80s Hit Different 😂 My father loved this movie and recorded it on VHS so I always watched it growing up I was prob 7 or 8 when I first watched this...I remember my mom telling him she didn't think it was a kid movie but he was like, it's fine...🤣 He was in his late 30's his favorite character was Jeffrey Jones playing the Dark Overlord 😂
Jeffrey Jones scared the absolute HELL out of me in this movie, when I was a kid. And, I kinda still love this movie, but that is coming from an 11 year old's love of this silliness.
This came out when I was 5. I probably saw it on HBO by the time I was 7. I watched it whenever it was on. Imagine my shock when I later found out it was considered a flop?!? I thought it was a masterpiece.
@@mcgilj1 It's such a shame they cancelled it. I would've love to watch a Howard the Duck animated series since I'm a huge fan of Howard the Duck. I heard it's going to be great with Kevin Smith directing the series and it's going to follow the storyline heavily from the Howard the Duck comics. The fact it's cancelled is really sad. Hopefully they revive that idea to reality one day.
This and Adventures in Babysitting (not the remake) were my go to films as a kid for some ungodly reason, love seeing the reactions... Keep being awesome.
My mother has been saying that forever. In my 45 years I've never heard anyone else say that before. I always thought it was something she made up. Lol
Howard was the most sarcastic hero in the comics, a thing that is realy hard to do in movies. He also have the wildest adventure, from an unsuccessful run at the presidency of the USA (people assumed he was a little person in a suit, but since he never was born in the US...) adventures with a Conan rip-off, the Hulk and he even has an 'Iron Duck' suit! And quack-fu is a thing he does and allows him to stun and throw opponent larger than himself; in the current MCU only Rocket would be immune!
Howard the Duck is basically Deadpool before Deadpool existed. I believe until the Deadpool films is when they finally executed a sarcastic Marvel character in a film really well. There's even a comic book where Howard the Duck and Deadpool got combined and form as 1 which result to be Deadpool the Duck. Howard the Duck has a lot of great stories in the comics. The reason for the creation of Quack Fu is because the Howard the Duck comics usually satires of pop-culture of what's going on at the time. And Martial Arts in entertainment media like films is a big deal back in the 70's, so they made a story based around martial arts for Howard(In the 80's film, Howard knowing Quack Fu right when he come to Earth came out of nowhere). Howard is strong and he fought a lot of villains along the way ranging from Proto-rata the financial wizard, a vampire cow known as Hell-Cow, Kidney Lady(Later on in the comics, it turns out she's a witch), the RingMaster and Circus of Crime, to Dr. Bong(Whose Howard's arch nemesis due to trying to take Beverly away from Howard and force her to marry him, and Howard needs to save Beverly from Dr. Bong).
@@robertcherman I think someone had already mentioned the old Spiderman movie, but I didn't see anyone mention Captain America. It is Marvel, in the sense that it is a Marvel character, but none of these are part of the MCU.
Loved this movie as a kid! Always had an affinity for movies that were completely different! That being said, they could have easily cut 15 minutes out of the movie. If they did I feel like it would get an extra point for the score. IMDB scores it 4.7 BTW. Shortened it would easily break into the low 6’s I bet
This should be interesting. Edit: Yep. I've always liked this movie - Raiders of the Lost Duck - because it's just so...IT. Good actors acting over the top, ridiculous plot, weird dialogue, a young Lea Thompson, what more could we ask?
I saw this movie, in the theater, when I was 18 years old. I thought it was pretty good, and I even own the DVD. My mother had the same opinion as you did, Emily...the makers of Howard should have stopped after 60 minutes. LOL P.S. We had to see “Ruthless People” afterwards, so my mother could saw she saw a good film that weekend. 😆😂🤣
I feel sooooo bad for you Emily,,, Your Husband did you dirty on this one, LOL PLEASE it is not on your "Already Watched list, and it is not on your "To Watch list", SOOO if you have not seen it, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch the movie "Babe" you will adore the film, you will give it 10/10 stars, guaranteed
