While Hank attempts to impress curator Jolene (Rosario Dawson), Lester inadvertently winds up wearing an impenetrable suit of armor with a dizzying array of powers, destroying the museum and becoming a fugitive in the process. Back on villain island, Lester is introduced to Hank’s motley crew of friends: mechanic Jane (Jane Krakowski), chef Stew (Craig Robinson) and absent-minded old janitor Jackalope (Bobcat Goldthwait) before he and Hank are put to work cleaning the Museum of Villains. Lester meets and is saved by Hank (James Marsden), who helps him escape when the lair is attacked and destroyed by Captain Superior (Nathan Fillion) and his crew. On the day of his sixteenth birthday, Lester enlists in the nearest supervillain stronghold run by Gluttonator (Will Sasso), an obese idiot whose plans for world domination involve cheese-related attacks. Problematically it only takes a few scenes to reveal that these comic books are based on real life events and the supervillains and superheroes depicted in the paneled frames actually exist in the world, which contains only two locations: Aphex City and the volcano lair where all of the villains live behind a hologram shield. Lester (Thomas Middleditch) is a capital O orphan whose attraction to villains in comic books belies a deep-seated loneliness. It’s not just the odd pairing of seemingly hand-painted faces mixing with cheap looking animation that raises questions it’s the innumerable gaps in logic and the juvenile attempts at humour that grate on the viewer (the film’s humour meter alternates between a limitless number of annoying pratfalls and fart & burp “jokes”). Finally, how did this film manage to attract such big voice talent to such a lackluster project?Īll of these questions arise because Henchmen is not a very good movie.What are the laws of physics in this world because people seemingly fall from every conceivable height imaginable and never even suffer a bruise?.Why does main villain Baron Blackout indiscriminately turn everyone, including his own henchmen, into zombie goop? Does this effectively murder them or can they be transformed back?.Why are there human cleaners when this world is also populated by autonomous robots?.Why do the villains have their own museum and how did a random henchwoman become the museum curator?.Does this world only contain two cities: the villain volcano and Apex City where the heroes live?.Why don’t the heroes break into the Union of Evil secret stronghold volcano base that seemingly houses ALL of the world’s villains?.Why would anyone remain a henchman when the life expectancy is less than four months long?.Why would anyone sign up to be a henchman?.Waxman, will prompt any number of questions: Watching Henchmen, the new animated film directed by Adam Wood from a script by him, David Ray and Jay D.