I thought [director] Don Hahn did a beautiful job. You could really feel his affection for Howard. It's a moving and richly layered portrait.

Hahn ... performs a delicate balancing act as he puts audio interviews over old photos, archive footage, and occasional animations.

Mostly it will just make you hungry to revisit Ashman's work. That's perhaps not the intended result of this fond tribute/merely serviceable survey of a too-short career - but it's not necessarily a bad one.

Howard is a touching and tender tribute to a talent taken far too soon that investigates the impact Howard Ashman had on Disney as a whole.