Howard the Duck: RePlucked

This FanEdit certainly improves the movie. I can't say I thought even once while watching it that a scene was missing or that something was left out.

It certainly cut enough to make a better movie. As we've seen with other examples. George has great ideas and technical ability but needs a good editor saying 'No George' to him. This fanedit show that again!

As someone grew up literally watching all marvel movie and after watching the nostalgia critic episode about this movie it was inevitable that I would eventually watch this movie but thankfully this fan edit make this supposed "bad movie" less painful. But to my shock not only did I enjoy this but also made me realize how ambitious and ahead of its time it was that I wish this is canon to the MCU if the Sony/Fox marvels movies are a part of it. Basically, this movie walked so 90's dark and edgy superhero movies like teenage mutant ninja to even blade may run. For a superhero movie and compared to the light-hearted ones like Ant-Man this movie is very adult-oriented like a b-movie despite the duck and has a lot of adult/toilet-humor especially the part where Howard the duck works at message parlor that probably dabbles in prostitution too. And what's very unique about this which is very reminiscent of Dragon Ball where the beginning of the starts of as something of a sitcom with influence from the looney tunes cartoons and slowly transitions into epic sci-fi movie like ghostbusters and E.T. for example. I could see haters who disliked this movie getting impatient and turn-off of by the comedy while waiting for it to get to the good part but 1stbilled does a great fixing the pacing and improving the comedy to make payoff at the end feel so much better.

There is a fine line between camp and cringe. 1st Billed has successfully edited out many of the cringe elements in Howard the Duck without losing the excellence of the campy nature of the original. Edits are smooth and not noticeable.

So much fun that I dug out my Steve Gerber/Gene Colan Howard the Duck comics and re-read them after screening this edit. While the movie's light on the subversive satire of the comics, the characters of Howard and Bev were always the biggest selling point of the comics anyway, and the reconstruction (along with the impressively modernized FX) on display here allow them to shine through. Get down, Fan Editors! I hope we see a lot more edits from 1stBilled -- a fix-up job on the Man-Thing movie would sit very comfortably on the shelf next to this one... hint hint!

After seeing Howard the Duck make his cameos in the MCU I had to see the movie so I got to go into this edit with blind experience. And the verdict is that 1stBILLED has created a fantastic smooth edit. I hardly noticed any cuts that were made, it was well-paced, humour was solid and was such an enjoyable viewing experience.