My Hero Academia: The Movie (2022)

My Hero Academia: The Movie (spelled as MHA: The Movie) is an 2022 American animated comedy-drama film directed by Cody Cameron and is based off of Japanese magna artist Kōhei Horikoshi's novels of the same name, also based off of the anime television series of the same name. The film was produced by Kris Pearn and Dan Lin and the film stars the voices of Justin Briner, Christopher Wehkamp, Clifford Chapin, and Eric Vale with Caitlin Glass.

Synopsis
Deku, an ordinary student at the UA Highschool, is a teenager with no superpowers. His teacher, Mr. Aizawa, expects to have full 100% trust in him with an bully in the school named Katsuki Bakugo, who picks on Deku all the time. However, the Villains league plan to raid the school after losing many battles with the UA highschool. It is now up to Deku to cancel the plans of the raid.

Plot
In school, Deku is a student getting bullied by Bakugo. In class, his teacher, Mr. Aizawa, expects full 100% trust into him. In the Villains Leauge, it's leader Tomura Shigaraki, plans to have his minions have a raid at the UA Highschool in 64 hours.

Deku finds out about the idea and tries to alert the school about it, but nobody trusts him and is sent to detention. However, Deku's friend Mina Ashido believes him, but it is very illegal to go to the Villains League to stop them from raiding the school. At night when everyone is asleep, Deku and Mina go out to stop the raid but Mr. Aizawa stops them and sends them back to bed.

Meanwhile, Mr. Aizawa sneaks in the Villains League HQ and takes out five of their guards and gets paperwork regarding their raid. While Bakugo is bulling Deku, Mr. Aizawa sends Bakugo to detention and has a talk with Deku in his class. Mr. Aizawa reminds Deku about the raid and he plans to help stop the raid.

Deku will however do it by himself while Mr. Aizawa gives him orders to take out the Villains League's guards. Tomura Shigaraki plans the raid and delays it to 48 hours. Tomura then finds out from one of his minions that five of his guards were taken out by Mr. Aizawa. Bakugo gets out of detention where he sees two minions of Tomura and the Villains League walking down the sidewalk. He takes them out and reads a paper where he finds out that the raid is starting in 36 hours.

Deku sneaks in the Villains League HQ and finds a massive cannon ball named "Humongo", in which is used for destroying the UA School. He gets met by Mina, who teaches him how to possess the ball. Mr. Aizawa gives Deku orders. Deku gives control to the cannon ball, causing it to wreck havoc in the Villains League HQ area.

Meanwhile, the CQR (Chaos Quickly Remove) sends in a giant spider, causing it to have an epic battle with Humongo, destroying the Villains League HQ area. Due to this, it causes Tomura to get angry and cancel the raid to the UA Highschool. Deku takes out one of the minions and hijacks one of their tansk and returns to the UA Highschool. Mina reminds Mr. Aizawa about the tank with Deku in it and Deku gives him a walkie-talkie with Tomura still telling his minions that the raid to the UA Highschool has been canceled.

This gives Mr. Aizawa and the students (except for Bakugo | who is punching himself to find out if this is a daydream) full 100% respect for Deku, making him a proud student of the school.

Voice cast

 * Justin Briner as Deku
 * Christopher Wehkamp as Mr. Aizawa
 * Clifford Chapin as Katsuki Bakugo
 * Eric Vale as Tomura Shigaraki
 * Caitlin Glass as Mina Ashido

Development
The plans for a MHA film was planned in 2018 when creator Kōhei Horikoshi had always thought of an theatrical MHA movie directed by Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 co-director Cody Cameron with a 122 minute long wait. The film was gonna be produced by Michael Bay, but was too busy directing the Transformers films, Kris Pearn (who worked with Cameron on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2) and Dan Lin.

Casting
In 2020, it was reported that the cast of the MHA series would be reprising their roles.

In September 2021, Justin Briner, the voice of Deku, posted a photo on Twitter with him with Clifford Chapin, the voice of Bakugo. It was also announced that it would be released in April 28, 2021, but was delayed due to the COVID-19. Eric Vale, the voice of Tomura Shigaraki posted a sneak peek of the film on his twitter account too.

Music
In 2019, it was announced on Variety that Mark Mothersbaugh would be the composer of the film. Most sound effects would be taken from Stock qnd various media on the internet. In 2023, the official soundtrack for the film was released on iTunes. It was also announced that Kevin MacLeod would be the producer and writer of the soundtrack.

Cinemas
The film was released on June 24, 2022 in Dolby Cinema. It was originally set for an April 28, 2021 release, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Critical response
From the critics, users, and MHA fans everywhere around the world, it was positively received by them. It got a 9/10 on Rotten Tomatoes. Rex Reed called it a "masterpiece with outstanding animation and fight scenes" while Justin Chang gave it a 10/10 on his website explaining that he has no words for the film, but he loves it anyway.

Release Dates

 * April 28, 2021 (formerly)
 * June 24, 2022 (United States)
 * November 12, 2022 (Canada)
 * July 30, 2022 (Home Media)
 * January 2, 2023 (Blu-Ray)
 * August 8, 2023 (DVD, Digital)