While audiences are used to getting animated films from Disney/Pixar or DreamWorks Animation, on occasion other studios do get a chance to bring something of their own to the table. Vertical Entertainment is an example with their new film Henchmen. Well, new in the sense it's finally getting released on On Demand after only having a limited release in Canada in December of 2018...and officially being marked as completed in 2016 (The year it's dated for on IMDB).
The film is directed by Adam Woods, based on his own 2014 short film Henchmen: Ill Suited, and Woods also co-wrote the script with David Ray, Bobby Henwood, and Jay D. Waxman. It has no critical reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (But does possess an audience score of 40%). In any case, everyone will have access to it on October 9th to find out for themselves. The synopsis is as follows:
In a world of super-villains, evil schemes and global domination, someone has to take out the trash. Welcome to the world of Henchmen, third class. When Lester (Played by Thomas Middleditch), a fresh-faced recruit, joins the Union of Evil, he is assigned to a motley crew of blue-collar workers led by fallen henchmen Hank. But when Lester accidentally steals a super villain's ultimate weapon, Hank must break his risk-nothing code to save the boy he's befriended, even if it means becoming the one thing he has always avoided: a hero.
Now, a new official trailer has been released for it which you can check out below:
Henchmen also features the voices of James Marsden, Rosario Dawson, and Alfred Molina.
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