User blog comment:Deadpool fan11/Was it really that bad?/@comment-61022-20120424011157

To be honest with you, Howard the Duck is my favourite comic book movie of all time.

All the people who hate on it expected it to be exactly like Steve Gerber's work on Howard the Duck. An introspective social commentary with goofy villains. The problem with that, is that Gerber wrote a lot of that stuff in the mid 70's and when Howard the Duck came out it was already the mid 80's, a lot of his commentary was already pretty dated.

Granted, the movie adaptation did not have the counter-culture edge that his comic book brother did.. But that's not what makes Howard the Duck a great movie.

It's just pure 80's cheese. It's got a ridiculous soundtrack, Leah Thompson dressed up like an 80's New Waver, the principal from Ferris Buhler's day off... Oh and all the special effects were done by George Lucas.

Say what you will about the movie, but nobody can deny it had some amazing special effects for its time.