Henry Danger: The Movie – review

Director: Joe Menendez

Release date: 2025

Contains spoilers

I was not aware of Nickelodeon’s Henry Danger (Jace Norman) franchise and so, having stumbled across this, went in cold and, the good news is, they manage to adequately explain the background in short order.

Henry Hart, as a child, becomes the sidekick to superhero Captain Man (Cooper Barnes) under the pseudonym Kid Danger. Having gained powers, and whilst saving the people of Swellview, Henry faked his death and moved to the city of Dystopia to become the crime fighting hero Henry Danger, along with his best friend Jasper (Sean Ryan Fox).

Missy as Kid Danger

The start of the film sees a device being delivered to an evil lab. Someone, in a Kid Danger mask and costume, manages to steal it and fight their way out of the lab (showing a fighting competence that begs the question of why the thief felt the need to steal the device in order to bring Kid Danger back to life and deal with the petty crime in their neighbourhood). But that is the entire reason why Missy (Glee Dango) has stolen the RAD (Reality Altering Device). She is a superfan of Kid Danger and believes only he can help her.

Henry and Missy

Over in Dystopia, Jasper and, eventually, Henry have been fighting Blackout (Eric Mazimpaka) – this has led to a friction between the friends over fame, and the friendship and partnership seems to be at an end. Henry is ambushed by Blackout and kicked out of a skyscraper window just as Missy uses the RAD. Of course Henry was not dead and it pulls him through space and makes him appear in her room wearing the Kid Danger uniform.

Ella Anderson as Vampiper

Unfortunately, the RAD also pulled in Missy’s fan fiction and it has taken Henry’s powers away and then deposited the two of them in a fan fiction. This one happens to feature her invented villain Coach Cregg (Andre Tricoteux, Van Helsing). Missy also had a beef in a fan group with Henry’s sister Piper (Ella Anderson) and, as night falls, she appears as the electro-vampire villain Vampiper – hence me reviewing the film. Unfortunately the RAD gets stuck in story mode and so Missy and Henry have to jump through stories/dimensions trying to get home but the actual way home is through Vampiper.

an ally turned

There isn’t much vampire lore. She comes out at night, she can turn into a load of bats to move rapidly and her bite turns the victim and changes their personality so they are immediately evil. There is a spark of electricity as she transforms into bats and across her fang wounds but other than that the electro bit isn’t explained any more than coming from the imagination of a young girl writing fan fiction. Ella Anderson looks suitably gothic as the vampire.

the key to going home

As for the film itself it is sure to be appreciated by the target audience – this is a kids orientated superhero movie and look slick enough. It has quite a slab of humour, including an end of the world scenario with Mounties trying to claim the last batch of maple syrup and, in another story, Jasper becoming the moustachioed super-powered hero Captain 'Stache. The story dimensions concept riffs on the multiverse idea that the big hitters in the Superhero genre are using, however it doesn’t really have an adult layer to it. Nevertheless, for the target age group 6 out of 10 feels fair, but fans of the franchise will likely get much more out of it.

The imdb page is here.