In this expansion of the popular stalwart Nickolodeon children's TV favourite, a young girl Kid Danger superfan steals a portal-opening dimension-hopping device that pulls a now more grown-up Henry into her various fan-fiction worlds, including an animated world, a future survivalist settlement and a lame nightclub/musical interlude, as our hero tries to get back home. The film quickly reunites the now-notably-older main characters, led by the dashingly bland Jace Norman, with the dimension-hopping paving the way for a variety of alter-egos, bad wigs and silly costumes. With production values clearly improved from the TV show in an effort to look more filmic, the sit-com stylings are largely dropped, leaving the movie somewhere between Power Rangers and Goosebumps in its attempt to be a little darker, but it is still rather slow, tame and low-key even for its very young target audience. It fleetingly touches on child-friendly themes such as growing up, responsibility, independence and friendship, and the mini-episodic approach perhaps gives the film a little more narrative substance than most children's fare. Nevertheless, the show's young fans will lap it up, and a last-gasp inevitable cameo suggests this might not be the last we see of Henry and his gang.
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