Henry Stickmin: The Movie

Henry Stickmin: The Movie is a 2021 American animated film based on the Henry Stickmin video games. The film is directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Sony Pictures Animation.

The film centers around stickman, Henry Stickmin, infiltrating a spaceship to save his friends from being kidnapped by aliens. On his way, he learns that... maybe he is better off on his own. There will also be infinite distraction dances that will make you dance in your seat.

The film premiered at Regency Village Theater on August 7, 2021 and released in the United States on August 20, 2021. The film earned over $3 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film to date, and received astronomically positive reviews, with critics, audiences and fans alike calling it one of the best films ever made. It won every Oscar and Annie imaginable and grew Henry Stickmin: The Movie into a massive franchise. Henry Stickmin: The Movie 27,235 is coming to a theater near you in IMAX, 3D, HD, Hyper-Techno-Tech®.

Plot
Henry Stickmin loves spending time with his friends, perfecting his distraction dance and pursuing crazy missions. One day, the news warns everyone that a giant spaceship is coming to destroy earth. When it comes, it kidnaps all of Henry's friends. Henry decides to go on a perilous mission to get them back. When the aliens return, to kidnap more people, Henry sneaks on and it flies away.

There he meets a cloud named Cloudy, who claims that he watches over all life. The aliens of the ship notice Cloudy, giving time for Henry to escape. He suddenly finds his best friend, Ellie, there. She agrees to help Henry on his mission, followed by Cloudy. They escape before the alien leader, Plex, notices them.

Planning out where to go, Cloudy recommends Pluto, explaining that Plex and the aliens invade all the planets for power, excluding Pluto due to it being "useless".

The gang hi-jack a rocket passing by and fly into space, where they are met by a space commander named Nebula, who is doubtful of Henry, but decides to join them anyway, much to Cloudy's dismay. Cloudy tells Henry in private that Nebula is a childhood rival of him. Henry assures Cloudy that everything will be okay.

The four pass by a space restaurant named The Cosmo Tavern serving cheeseburgers. The owner, Pogo, gets in conversation with Henry, Ellie, Cloudy and Nebula, when he discusses his dreams to go on a space mission, asking to join them. Agreeing, they leave The Cosmo Tavern.

Plex and his comrades arrive on the scene so Henry can pay for what he has done. A martian named Allan rushes up to him and says fearfully that an evil band of thieves named the Toppat Clan are invading a diamond exoplanet for money. Plex is very interested, so he shoves Allan aside to find the planet and raise his wealth and knowledge.

Meanwhile, Henry and his friends find a laboratory in the middle of space. Cloudy sneaks in to check if anything suspicious is in there, when he meets a group of scientists experimenting with meteorites. The leader, One, forces Cloudy and the gang into the floating laboratory. Henry tells One that Plex has kidnapped a massive group of people on Earth. One explains that Plex is a leader of a giant colony to take over the entire universe so he can finally be respected by his family, who had never thought much of him, in favor of his brothers and sisters. Henry is shocked by this, and the kind guy that he is, announces to everyone that he was going to deal with Plex on his own and make him feel welcome for once.

At the exoplanet, the Toppat Clan land and start making themselves welcome by digging the diamond up. One and his group of scientists arrive to interrogate the leader of the Toppats, Reginald Copperbottom. Before anything else could’ve happened, Reginald orders his team to kill the scientist group. The Toppats take the scientists to a deep cave, and threatens to throw One into a hole. The rest of the scientists escape, as One falls deep into the hole. At the bottom, One is found by Allan, who helps recover him from the fall, telling him stories of Plex.

Meanwhile, Henry is lying on a meteorite. As he watches the stars go by, he wonders if he‘s better off on his own, than to join the rest of the group. When the meteorite begins to fume, Henry jumps off, leaving him to float around in deep space. Just as he was about to start floating towards Earth, a satellite passes by him. Henry notices that there’s actually a door. He enters the “satellite” to a pleasant surprise. A bunch of humans had created an entire city in that very satellite. Henry enjoys himself at the hotel, when he forgets his main mission.

After weeks of luxury, exploring the city, a small spaceship crashes right in the middle of City Hall. Out of this spaceship comes One and Allan. Allan explains to Henry that he was told by One about his mission. Suddenly, a rush of memories come flying back to Henry. The three fly off on the spaceship.

One, Allan and Henry arrive at One‘s laboratory, where Henry gets to finally see Ellie, Cloudy, Nebula and Pogo, for the first time in months. After a happy reunion, One shows Henry through a telescope the diamond exoplanet being dug up by the Toppat Clan. Henry, who had been through various situations including the Toppats before, is extremely upset.

As the Toppat Clan continue to destroy the planet, Plex and his comrades arrive on the scene to get the loot first. The two teams battle against each other, not noticing Henry and his friends arrive as well. Henry tells his friends, that after what he had been through during his months of being alone, that he can confront Plex on his own, and everyone agrees. Everyone except Nebula, who threatens to kill Henry, revealing his dark side and loyalty to Plex. Henry is shocked and devastated, as he storms off to find Plex.

Henry finally finds Plex, watching all the ruckus as it ensues before him. Plex pins Henry to the floor to kill him, so he can finally prove his worth to his family. Henry tells Plex that he understands his struggles, always feeling like you’re never heard. Plex doesn’t take this seriously, and takes him to the same cave that the Toppats threw One into. This time, Plex‘s henchmen fill the deep pit up with molten iron. Ready to kill him, Plex smiles, when he trips on his friend’s leg, and falls into the pit, Henry is dazzled watching Plex die. The henchmen, still thinking that Plex is alive, jumps into the iron to see if he’s there, only for them to die. After all the alien clan had been burned to death, Henry decides to find the Toppats.

Reginald is shocked to see Henry be there in space, and a battle begins. Henry and his friends escape into Plex's rocket, flying out without the Toppats. Suddenly, a missile crashes into the rocket, sending it down to crash into Saturn.

Henry is saves by Ellie, but Cloudy vaporizes into thin air, leaving him dead. Henry cries over his death, and says that he never should've trusted Nebula after all. Ellie tells Henry that Cloudy would live on in his heart.

Months later, the gang passes by a massive base on Mars. One investigates, and realizes that it holds all of the humans that were kidnapped. Pogo wants to intentionally crash the rocket into the base to let them out, but Henry disagrees. He lets all of the humans out of the base, and they all celebrate their escape. One says that he can build a light-speed rocket to get the gang back home. As they all agree, he builds it and they all ride it home. When Henry asks One what happened to Nebula, he says that the ground started dissolving slowly due to the molten iron, leaving Nebula and the Toppats to drown, while Allan escaped to "a better home".

As they land on Earth, Henry says farewell to Pogo and One, as the bittersweet adventure closes. The spaceship then flies away, leaving the movie to come to a close.

Cast

 * Vin Diesel as Henry Stickmin, a lovable stickman who can't stop distracting everyone with his distraction dance.
 * Scarlett Johansson as Ellie Rose, Henry's best friend and the only one who was not kidnapped.
 * Frank Welker as Plex, the leader of the alien clan and the main antagonist of the film. Frank also voices the rest of the male characters in the clan, and the male characters in the Toppat Clan, with the exception of Reginald.
 * Robert Downey Jr. as Cloudy, a living cloud that watches over all life. He abandons his original home to help Henry and Ellie.
 * Kevin Hart as Nebula, a space commander who joins Henry, Ellie and Cloudy only to betray them later in the film.
 * John C. Reilly as Pogo, the owner of The Cosmo Tavern who joins Henry, Ellie, Cloudy and Nebula, bringing supplies for their mission.
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger as Allan, an ordinary martian who informs Plex of the invasion of the diamond exoplanet by the Toppat Clan.
 * Alec Baldwin as One, the leader of the scientists who gives Henry, Ellie, Cloudy, Nebula and Pogo information on what is going on and why.
 * Johnny Depp as Reginald Copperbottom, the leader of the Toppat Clan.
 * TBA

Production
TBA

Release
The film premiered at Regency Village Theater on August 7, 2021, to widely positive results, with many moviegoers saying that they were so attached to the story that they would start crying if they accidentally looked away from the screen.

Marketing
A new video game, Henry Stickmin: The Movie: The Game, was released on Steam on August 1, 2021. The Henry Stickmin console was then released a day later, over 999 million copies sold in one day.

Box office
The film received over $500 million on its opening weekend, and gained over $3 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film to date.

Critical response
Henry Stickmin: The Movie received astronomically positive reviews, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes giving it the first ever 999% based on 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 reviews, with an average rating of 999/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Henry Stickmin: The Movie is not a movie - but a thrilling experience carefully wrapped with perfection. And distraction dances." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 999 out of 100, indicating "too much critical acclaim, but we don't care", and making it the highest-rated film on the site. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film the first ever grade of "A+++++++++++++++++++++" from an A+ to F scale. The Henry Stickmin team is very proud. Be the first to get your tickets to That Random Guy In Infiltrating The Airship, a spin-off happily added to Phase 999,999,999 of the Henry Stickmin Cinematic Universe (HSCU).

Lilflexy gave a mixed review to the film with 2.5 out of 4 possible stars, writing, "Yes, it does stay faithful to the games, but the animation feels D-tier compared to other theatrical films out there."

Sequels
Ever since the film released, many sequels have been released every week.