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

They got the PG rating because they were able to just barely...duck under the limit. I won't apologize.

I was looking forward to Emily's reaction to the duck t***ies. Did not disappoint. 😂

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

Howard the Duck gets an instant thumbs up from me.

OMG YES, HOWARD THE DUCK!!!! I love this movie, unironically too. It never fails to put a smile on my face.

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.

Emily has, to the very core of her soul, the humor of a 12 year old boy.

Duck walks into a drugstore, says "I need a condom." Clerk says, "Okay, that'll be $1.95". Duck says, "Just put it on my bill."

I unironically love this movie.

When I saw the title, all I could think was “oh no”.

I enjoy this movie quite a lot. It's fun. The stop motion on the Dark Overlord is pretty impressive. And Lea Thompson... is... well... Lea Thompson.

"Ducks lay eggs. They're not mammals" Wait'll she discovers the platypus, it'll blow her mind.LoL

Leah Thompson took "interesting" roles in the 80's with characters who had the hots for their son and a duck. 😄

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.

Wow, I can't believe my parents let me watch this film as a child. The 80s really were the best.

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.

"We're not getting a duck." +looks at the camera like 'yes we will'+

This one is right up there with Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ferris bueller's day off and so forth. A great one!

The thing is, this movie was meant to be dumb fun, and it definitely met it’s goal. As a comedy, I’ve seen worse.

Howard The Duck is perfect for when Leprechaun in The Hood isn't available.

If she thinks this era's PG movies are something.... imagine what she'd think of the G rated movies we had back then! 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

I don’t care what people say, I love this movie.

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.

"It's not MY fault I have to shoplift at the 'Little Tyke' section of the Goodwill!"

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.

The list does not mention the "The Gods Must Be Crazy" series....I can still rewatch the first two with big laughs.

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"

This movie is a good test of people. Anyone who doesn't like it really can't be trusted for pretty much anything.

Interesting point of trivia: Lea Thompson went on to marry a director called Howard Deutch. An anagram of Deutch is "The Duc".

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!

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.

YES!!! LOVE THIS MOVIE!!

If you haven’t already seen it... ‘Return of the Killer Tomatoes’ is a fun movie to watch! 😁

It's clear you can´t notice an artistic masterpiece when you see it!! This is like Beethoven's 9th Quackphony of movies!

I don't know how she did it, but Emily made this movie fun to watch. That's talent. Please never stop being you Emily! :)

I don’t give a Duck what people say this movie quacks me up.

"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.

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.

"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.

I think this film may have finally found its intended audience.

Thank you. I have loved this since I saw it in the cinema. My favourite bit, Howard and Beverly's relationship, they just get each other.

Best thing about this movie is the "Howard the duck" song! One of my favourite movie soundtracks songs!

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!

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!

Next I dare you to watch “Evolution (2001)”

I lost it when you said “Duck Danglers”!! Haha

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.

It took 35 years, but Howard The Duck finally found someone who appreciates the best part of the movie, Duck Ti****s.

Sheena with Tanya Roberts and Ted Wass. A " PG" movie with something special!

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 😂

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.... 🤣🤣

I waTched this so much as a kid. Don’t forget the Blade films are Marvel (if you haven’t seen them)

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

"I wasn't prepared", neither was I, but that was hilarious!

One of my roommates in college was obsessed with Lea Thompson.. so I've seen this movie more times than I'd like.

This movie must have been a lost drinking bet between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg - George lost.

I'm so glad you two reacted to this! It's actually one of my favorite movies. It's such a great mix of hokey B-movie and epic hard sci-fi.

The wife is seriously crackin' me the eff up!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

When I was a teen, my younger brothers would only this movie non-stop until I got fed up with it and hid the tape.

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.

I love this movie! I have it in my DVD collection. Got this film on my birthday 5 years ago October 2015.

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. 😆😂🤣

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.

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.

Emily wasn't ready for the quackiness of the movie!! Lol

" Lord Love A Duck " is an old English phrase that Lea Thompson took way too literally! 😁

I so loved his Cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy! I hope they give him a reboot...

If you are interested in checking out the Howard comics, Steve Gerber's 70s run, and the 2010s revival are the best.

one of my favorite puppet-scifi-comedy-monster movies ever! i saw it for the first time in the 80's and i wasn't happy until i got the dvd 😄

The songs the band sang were written by Thomas Dolby ("Blinded Me With Science") and Lea Thompson did her own vocals. I've always liked this movie. I actually saw this when it came out in the movie theater - I was 12 and it was summertime at the Outer Banks. I went out and got the soundtrack afterwards on cassette and listened to it for ages. TBH I didn't remember it having so many dumb jokes (good thing I like dumb jokes) *Also, the thug near the beginning ("A talking duck??") you actually saw him last week. He was the guy Frank Drebin questioned toward the end of the Naked Gun 2 1/2 ("If that's your attitude, just forget it"), an actor named John Fleck. * Also, also ,a little Howard The Duck trivia - his stuff is kind of pre-Deadpool fourth-wall breaking style not-really-serious. He had a bad guy named Dr. Bong (a geneticist whose head was a giant bell) and an ally named Razorback (a dude wearing a giant boar head costume who works as a space trucker because of his mutant ability to 'drive anything') So yeah, it's kind of crazy. * Also, also, also, I know you addressed it in the pinned comment, but this movie isn't *technically* the first Marvel character movie. Maybe "original" character, but Conan the Barbarian has been a Marvel property for around 40 years, with its own continuity, and that film came out in 1982. Technically it was someone else's property (Robert E Howard) but as time has gone on there's more Marvel created content than anything original, so to me he's a Marvel character.

The Guardians of the Galaxy version is much closer to the comics.

I saw this movie at the theater when it came out in 1986 ! I own the music soundtrack vinyl LP ! John Barry is one of my favorite film composers.

Remember this watching as a kid in the 80s for my birthday. God I'm old.

I unashamedly love this film! Its great fun. Plus Lea Thompson is lovely 😍.

Fun Fact: Howard was in Endgame and was in the final battle.

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!

I absolutely LOVE your laugh! it is just infectious

Fun reaction! I used to love this movie when I was a kid (still do), to me this is basically "Deadpool (2016)" only released 30 years earlier. The same concept of combining small amounts of seriousness with hilarious insanity and ridiculousness. Some other great older comedies I can recommend for reaction: "Fletch! & Fletch Lives" with Chevy Chase, "Ruthless People" with Danny Devito & Bette Midler, "Moon over Parador" with Raul Julia & Richard Dreyfus, "Clockwise" with John Cleese, "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" with Steve Martin, "Overboard" with Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russel.

I had such a crush on Lea Thompson as a kid Admittedly more due to Back to the Future than this

There were also two made-for-TV Captain America movies, starring the legendary Reb "Gristle McThornbody" Brown.

I watched this movie so many times as a kid I could recite the entire script on demand start to finish.

I just started watching you guys and your fantastic! I saw Howard the duck and I knew the first five minutes! Tiddies!!! And a whole lot of fun!

That ending song sounded like a prince n the revolution reject

Dr Strangelove. Worth watching just for Peter sellers. 😊

I probably wore out 4 vhs copies of this movie growing up I love pretty much everything about this movie

I'm glad you enjoyed them Duck Danglers.

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?

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

I'm sorry but I looooooooove how the ending just goes balls to the walls b*****t insane! Loved it as a kid. Love the duck lovin'. As a kid I didn't understand the implications for her falling for Howard. I was just like "Just let them be happy"😊

Leah Thompson turn ons: 1 - Her own son 2 - water foul

Please try Dragonslayer from the early 80's, great show.

I loved and still love this film, is so quintisencially 80's right down to the casual nudity and all round weirdness

I was so excited to see you did this movie! Nobody ever does, and while I know more people have been talking about it lately, for a long time I brought it up here and there and nobody ever knew wtf I was talking about, lol. This is the character I think of every time I see Jeffery Jones because I'm pretty sure this is the first thing I saw him in when I was a kid, lol.

Loved this movie as a kid. Love this movie as an adult. Own it on VHS and DVD, and have no shame about it. Lol

First came howard the then the punisher in 1989 staring dolph lundgren. You should react to it next.

You're watching Howard The Duck?? Prediction: Will predict Emily will give this movie about a seven point two. Actual: Emily gave it a _._ (4.7).

This is one of my "Favorite" movies. This made my night, thank you.

Best reaction in one video from the both of you. My newest favorite you've done.

It may not be a 'good' movie, but I like it, it was fun.