This is supplemental material to the video which can be found here.
I know as the sort of reviewer I am, I’m not supposed to admit such things, but I actually really enjoy Howard the Duck. Don’t get me wrong, every single thing I said was absolutely true and I didn’t cover all the stupidity in this movie, but it really is the fun kind of bad. It does drag a little at times, but that is more than made up for by just how unbelievably embarrassing the acting on Academy Award winner Tim Robbins is.
Actually, I remember reading once years ago that George Lucas had actually disowned this movie, but when I was researching for this review, I could not find him quoted as saying that anywhere anymore. In fact, most quotes from him are in defense of it. I’m quite positive that I recall him denouncing it because I remember as a kid finding it odd as I do like Howard the Duck and he has made much worse that he hadn’t disowned.
Maybe it’s like how every reference to Sam and Max Hit the Road vanished into thin air on the LucasArts site a few months after Sam and Max: Freelance Police was finally canceled. Maybe George Lucas has some pull over the internet at large and could wipe out all references to his former decrying of what is now a cult classic. Maybe I’ve just remembered things wrong, I don’t know. That’s why I left reference to it one way or the other out of the review.
You know, I am actually curious. Do places like Lava of Love actually exist in reality, or was that some sort of badly written social commentary… or just a terrible, nonsensical joke? Seriously, if anyone has an answer for that question, I’d love to hear it.
Man, one thing I wanted to mention but never had a good point to: the music in this movie is terrible. They keep playing music that doesn’t fit the mood at all, the 80’s rock is… bad 80’s rock and the Cherry Bombs aren’t good at all, and since they are kind of important to the plot, that’s pretty bad.