Comic fantasy adventure with Tim Robbins and Lea Thompson as the earthlings working with alien duck Howard to save the world from dark overlord Jeffrey Jones. (1986)(104 mins)

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...