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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Ya know I grew up reading those books and they were a good time. And this movie was actually a surprisingly good time. Everything about it is an omage to those old books, and it just took me back. For a kids movie I found myself entertained between the toilet jokes, and I liked how they made some bold choices with the animation, and the story telling, just to make sure that it was an accurate representation of the source material.

Dreamworks' second entry of 2017, "Captain Underpants" is a rather low budget animated feature from the colossal studio with nearing "only" 40$ million, but still displayed crisp animation without heavy funds. For that matter alone, the movie should be acclaimed, but regrettable the finite result is not sufficiently well put together. The movie is adapted from a vast children novel series created by Dav Pilkey with more than 15 overall books under its sphere."Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" revolves around two fourth grade pranksters (voiced by Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch) whose imagination fabricate a superhero in the form of their mean school principal, dubbed "Captain Underpants" after their comic books.The screenwriters do a good job telling the origin story of Captain Underpants and how it all came to be, however the film is lacking laughs and giggles with some of the jokes being quite childish. Given the fact that Dreamworks released "The Boss Baby" is the same year, they are probably going for that same type of humor and target the same demographic that made it a box office hit. Although I have to admit I laughed every time the word "Hahaguffawchucklealamus" was spoken."Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" is a decent animated feature film for children, but the adults may not find it as entertaining.

If you had to pick a movie that you think is the ultimate kid's movie, would you pick this? I probably would. CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS was a surprise to me. I remember the books being popular in elementary school. I have seen what a CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS book contains. So to see it transported to the big screen would be a challenge. At first, I didn't like that casting of Kevin Hart and Thomas Middletech portraying the two main boys. I would have loved to have heard actual boys play the characters. But as the film went on it didn't bother me as much. I think they did a good job. They play George and Harold, two pranksters that get on the principal's nerves. So from the start we know that these two are real best friends. They also enjoy making comics, with their magnum opus being Captain Underpants. So with the power of a hypno-ring they are able to hypnotize their principal to become Captain Underpants himself. So you can tell that there was going to be a lot of toilet jokes through out. And you know what I liked it. It fits perfectly with the story and at the same time stays true to the source. My favorite part where I completely lost my head laughing would be the Fart concert. What's not to laugh about it. I also liked that the two boys had super imaginations and they showed how they perceived every situation in their heads. It sounds like the movie was about them even though the title is called Captain Underpants. I think this is a great adaptation of the books. Not a lot of studios can pull it off and some how Dreamworks Animation manged to do it.

It is difficult to make a movie that is totally preposterous while not being just plain stupid. This movie succeeds. I do not think there should be a sequel but a tv series based on the books might work.