Howard the Duck Page #5

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
2,260 Views


he duck gt away.

Shut up, fl!

Get him ut f here!

Over here n the duble.

Okay. I want this guy.

he suspect

is three ft ne inches tall.

- hree-tw, thank yu.

- Yu heard me.

He's armed.

hat means he's gt a weapn, right?

- hat alsmeans he's dangerous.

- Mi?

Extremely dangerous.

Sht to kill!

Let's mve it ut!

Cme n!

Richard, cme with me.

Okay...

Let's g.

- N, dn't sht.

- We gie up!

- ime ut!

- We surrender.

- Dr. Jenning?

- What?

- Mre cps. Cme n, hurry!

- What?

- Cme here.

- Get ver here, Dc.

- Hward, Hward...

- What?

he laser spectra-scpe

malfunctined again.

here was a tremendus

explsin and then...

...I must hae blacked ut.

hen suddenly I find myself ut here.

- Are they after yu?

- Des "sht to kill" sund serius?

I'm probably finished, to.

hse experiments

were unauthrized.

hey're probably

gnna blame me.

Oh, my Gd,

he needs help.

- Maybe we all shuld get ut f here.

- Yu gt a car, dc?

What's wrng with me?

here's the back gate.

- Gd, there's ncps.

- I dn't hae a gate key.

Yu'e gt a ft, dn't yu?

Sstep n it.

Lieutenant, a car crashed ut

the back gate.

- Headed towards Highway 5.

- Alright, get ut an all pints.

- Bulletin right nw.

- Yes, sir!

Hw the hell am I gnna explain

a manhunt fr a duck?

- It's a duck hunt.

- Hansen, please, dn't start. Please?

Can't yu understand?

I'm telling yu I saw smething!

Dc, yu're in shck

frm the explsin.

- And yu're imagining things.

- Watch where yu're ging, damn it!

Listen, an evil has landed.

he wrld is in great danger.

Yeah, it certainly is

when yu're ut n the highway.

Lk ut!

Yu're gnna get us killed.

It feels like smething inside me

gnawing at my guts!

- What's wrng with me?

- Well, what did yu have fr lunch?

Oh, by!

Oh, by!

Cme n, give us a break!

Dn't clse yur eyes.

he pain.

It's like I'm

transfrming inside.

I'm afraid I'm abut to becme

smething else.

- Oh, great, like a sex change r smething.

- Smething's grwing inside me.

It's replicating and superseding

all my internal rgans!

Well, we'll stop

at a bathrm, huh?

hat mnster's shape I saw.

N!

- Jenning!

- It's inside my bdy.

his guy's delirius.

He's nt making any sense.

It's tolate.

he end f the wrld is cming...

...and I will be

the cause f it.

Jenning, slw dwn!

Steer, yu big y- y! Steer!

Hward, step n the brake!

Step n the brake!

Oh, n!

White line, wrng way.

- he brake! Push, Beverly, push!

- I'm trying!

I'm dead.

Yes, yu are.

- Yu think that's funny, Jenning?

- I'm nt Jenning any mre.

he transfrmatin is cmplete.

I am nw smene else.

ry telling that

to yur insurance cmpany.

I think he needs cme cffee.

Cme n.

Oh, after yu.

- Hey!

- Srry.

his is why I hate

the night shift.

I'm srry, we dn't allw

pets n the premises.

Hey, have a heart.

Seeing eye duck.

Touching, isn't he?

Nt stight. What are yu ding?

Falling in lve?

Yeah, sit dwn.

I need a beer bad.

Gtta find a waitress.

Yeah.

- Hey, hney! Yu!

- Yeah, I'm cming.

- Here she cmes.

- Ww!

Yur kid's cstume is really radical.

I'll bet he's crazy abut...

- It...

- Yeah, I'm very attached to him.

Yur dad's srt f in his wn space.

What dyu think he'd like to eat?

I nlnger need

human fd.

I knw it's a drag...

...but yu're gnna have to rder

sme fd if yu wanna sit here, s...

...hw abut the specials

n the menu?

Yu are abut to witness

the end f the ld wrld...

...and the birth f the new.

Hey, is he like ne f thse

TV-Evangelists r smething?

- Yeah...

- Or smething.

- I'm gnna kill smebdy.

- It's kay, Hward.

Why dn't we just have

three specials and three beers?

Right.

- Pr girl.

- Listen... Dr. J.!

If yu culd tune back

into reality fr a secnd.

I dn't understand anything

yu're talking abut.

All I knw is I need

that laser machine to get me hme.

Is it still wrking, Jenning?

Jenning!

I told yu, bird brain,

I am nt Jenning any mre!

I am nw ne f

the Dark Oerlrds f the universe.

- Dark Oerlrd f the universe?

- hat must be quite a respnsibility.

Tonight the laser beam

hit the Nexus f Sminus.

What is that?

A suburb f Cleveland?

It lies beynd the planets.

It is a regin f demns...

...to which we Dark Overlrds

were exiled ens ag.

- I hpe yu're getting all this.

- Hward, what I'm getting is...

...that this man

is very, very sick.

Just as yu were brought

dwn here accidentally.

Tonight, the laser beam

released me...

...from that regin f demns

and pulled me dwn into that lab.

Small unierse...

During the explsin

I entered Jenning's bdy.

S...

...I hae disguised

my true frm...

...which wuld be cnsidered

hideus and revIting here.

Lucky fr the peple eating.

Yu rdered the specials,

what's wrong?

his will mean the extinctin

f all existing life frms.

- But yu haen't even tasted it yet.

- What dyu think?

- I'm into cannibalism r smething?

- Hey.

Are we like all

in the same discussin here?

I'll give yu a hint, dll.

What's white, vid...

...and always reminds me f my birthday?

- I dn't knw.

he eggs!

Get them ut f here!

Gsh!

Yu knw, hstility is like

psychic bmerang.

I can't believe this planet!

Fried eggs. Yuck!

- Just bring the beer!

- Hward? Hward!

- What happened?

- Hw the hell did yu dthat?

- My pwers are grwing.

- Watch ut!

- It is time nw.

- What's that?

It is the cde key.

It will actiate the laser spectra scpe...

...when I use it tonight to bring dwn

the ther Dark Oerlrds.

- he thers?

- Nw he's gt a whle gang.

Well, screw them.

I gt dibs n the laser first.

Gimme that cde key.

hat's my ticket hme!

- Lk at his hand!

- It's nthing. Lk at his face!

Yes. Sn the Dark Oerlrds

will engulf the Earth.

- Nthing human will remain here.

- Nthing duck's remaining here either!

- Mve, we're ging!

- Yu will get the check?

- Hate to eat and run.

- Hellthere.

- Get ut f the way.

- Hey, lk the talking duck.

- Bug ff!

- Lrd, what is that?

Yu jackass,

he's a ventrilquist.

his guy here is ding the talking

and this here's the dummy.

Gahead,

say smething, dummy!

Yu might nt wanna hear

what I'll say, Bz!

Did yu make him

say that, jerk-ff?

Leave him alne!

He was just in an industrial accident.

- Stake a hike, Cwby!

- Yu...

- Yu're a dead duck!

- Hey!

- What's this? he key to yur duck-mbile?

- Gimme that r yu're gnna be srry.

Better watch ut,

he's a master f quack-f!

I'll quack-fhim!

Cme n, BeV, run!

All nice! Ging up!

I'm srry!

Hward! Hward!

his ne's fr yu,

cracker!

- Gd sht! Gd sht!

- Anther hungry customer!

- Yu...

- Tor, tor! Ol!

I'm gnna get yu,

yu dumb duck!

Hey, by!

- Call the plice!

- Nt the plice!

Call smebdy else!

hey're gnna hurt Hward.

An evil unlike any yu can imagine

is abut to engulf the Earth.

Oh, n, n, we hae fights

in here all the time.

- Yur rder is ready.

- Are yu gnna just sit there?

- She tok my eggs!

- One special!

- Hward!

- Beverly!

- Hward!

- Jenning!

- I culd use sme help here, buddy!

- Cme n, let's get ut f here!

Hward?

Yu're nt getting away nw,

yu stinking little bird!

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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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