Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure

Baby Huey was a comic book character created by the same people that made Casper, Richie Rich and all those other comics you read as a kid. He's a giant anthropomorphic duck with super strength even though he's still a baby. That's the joke. And for some reason people thought we needed a live action version of this.

It's basically every single fish out of water movie you've ever seen rolled into one. He shows up, some people don't like him and are afraid of him, others want to make him a star, there's forced comedy, emphasis on the fact he's a giant baby that breaks things without meaning to and scene.

That is literally the movie. I guess really young children might like it but we're talking like 4 or 5 here. Once they get older they're going to be bored silly.

Give this one a pass.

I am 17. My friends and i like to rent movies that look or sound stupid from their title or box art. We call this "THE WORST MOVIE MARATHON." We first saw BHGEA at our local video store and decided that this movie would be our feature film for that night. Boy were we wrong. Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure is an excellent movie. The cast is stupendious, including the former "Marcia Brady" and even Joe Izuza. (pardon my spelling) The story line is so intricate you have to watch it atleast twice to see EVERYTHING. This movie should have never been viewed at the the W.M.M. but i do not regret it. Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure is the greatest movie ever!! See it tonight! Oh yeah, the songs rule too. Very unique.

A seven-foot tall baby duck being raised by ex-Marcia Brady Maureen McCormick and her family is somehow accused of stealing Easter eggs and wrecking school property. It is like Big Bird's worst nightmare... and any viewer's. I caught it during a baseball rain delay and had to keep watching -- in disbelief that something this bad had been made.

Quite admittedly, this isn't the best movie in the world. But the fact that it's so camp-ish makes it better than if it had seemed terribly serious in nature. Then again, the only reason I have seen this movie so many times is that I am such a huge fan of David L. Lander (who is positively adorable here), and the inclusion of other classic TV stars is fun (if not a little sad that this is the best material some of them can get). My sister said of this movie after watching it, "It's bad, but in a good way." Very true. I love most of the music in here (but try not to laugh at a giant baby duck singing a heart-felt song about not belonging anywhere). Watch it without trying to take it too seriously; that will make all the difference!

I remember off-handedly seeing parts of this during a visit to my younger cousin's house when I was a kid. Unsurprisingly, he didn't seem to like it. Later, I saw bits and pieces of it on YouTube and I gathered enough info to make this review. It felt like a failed attempt to achieve the same success as earlier live-action Harvey Toon adaptations, like "Casper" and "Richie Rich".

A bit of background: Baby Huey was a giant, baby duck with superhuman strength and durability who appeared in Harvey comics and Harvey Toon segments in the 1950s. Later in the 90's, he reappeared in a short-lived revival with "Ren and Stimpy" styled animation from Carbunkle Cartoons that I saw a few times. All of these adaptations were better than this.

Anyway, a young boy named Nack discovers a giant egg after falling off the back of a truck, which promptly hatches and releases a 7-foot-tall duck named Huey, and the two become fast friends. Unfortunately, Huey attracts the attention of villains, namely a taxidermist named Professor von Klumpp (Harvey Korman) who wants to add Huey to his collection, and promoter PT Wynnsocki (Joseph Balogna) who wants to turn him into a Vegas act.

Despite having a cast and crew largely made up of National Lampoon members, the movie wasn't very good and there was little to be enjoyed here for children. Baby Huey's suit was shoddy and creepy with a barely functioning mouth and eyes. And while he's only a baby and never does anything wrong on purpose, Huey can be annoying with his clumsiness as he constantly causes damage. Stephen Furst does a fair job voicing Huey, but some of his lines sounded very unintentionally creepy: "Lots of kids! Lots of fun!" Ugh...

All of the acting was as poor and campy as the songs in the second half of the film, so everything fell short. All of the characters are irresponsible morons who don't watch Huey, allowing him to accidentally break stuff. The villains were more entertaining than the titular protagonist and I feel Harvey Kormans talent was completely wasted on this. And despite the title, there was hardly even anything related to Easter here other than Huey being framed by Wynnsocki for stealing eggs, which makes no sense at all.

Only very young children around kindergarten age would have enjoyed watching this, and only if their parents couldn't find anything better for them, like Barney or Teletubbies.