A boy and his friends must save Baby Huey from the evil plans of a Las Vegas producer and the high school ornithologist.A boy and his friends must save Baby Huey from the evil plans of a Las Vegas producer and the high school ornithologist.A boy and his friends must save Baby Huey from the evil plans of a Las Vegas producer and the high school ornithologist.
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Rodger Bumpass
- Baby Huey
- (as Roger Bumpass)
- …
Kate Simmons
- Patsy
- (as Katie Simmons)
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- TriviaTwo of the supporting characters, Little Audrey and Lotta, are loosely based on characters from Harvey Comics who published Baby Huey in comic book format during the late 50's and beyond. They compromise part of Harvey's "little girl" quartet of comedy comics: Little Audrey, Little Lotta, Little Dot and Wendy the Good Little Witch.
- GoofsNo information is ever given about the truck that dropped Baby Huey's egg.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Cinema Snob: Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure (2018)
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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 dull 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.
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 dull 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.
- MrPaull0324
- Oct 20, 2024
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- Huey, o Patinho Trapalhão
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- $3,000,000 (estimated)
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