When he threatens to put them in separate classes, the boys’ sheer horror at the prospect is expressed in a live-action melodrama, enacted by sock puppets.īut then, a kind of magic intervenes, when George manages to hypnotize Krupp with a plastic ring. Predictably, George and Harold land in Principal Krupp’s office a lot. Without that, they keep their sanity as merry pranksters, re-lettering school signs to say rude things and rejiggering an invention by their nerdy schoolmate Melvin (Jordan Peele) so that it fires toilet paper rolls at kids in assembly. They need a looser, more creative learning environment. Neither George nor Harold does all that well in school. “Captain Underpants” achieves a convincingly hand-drawn look in the characters’ chunky oval bodies, the buildings they inhabit and the backgrounds where the action is set. Soren and his animators soften the hard-plastic look of the characters’ CGI faces with a rubbery kind of humanity. The plot of the movie pulls bits and pieces from the first four installments in Pilkey’s 12-book series, which is all about the adventures of fourth-grade pranksters George Beard (voiced by Kevin Hart) and Harold Hutchins (Thomas Middleditch) and their invented superhero, Captain Underpants. Go ahead, take the kids, and guffaw with them at the excretory humor (and other amusements) in “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.” Director David Soren does a wondrous job of reproducing, in animated form, the riotous comedic sensibility of author and illustrator Dav Pilkey and his “Captain Underpants” books - right down to the squiggly lines and cutout look of the drawings. If you don’t watch out, the evil Professor Poopypants may just zap the laughter lobes of your brains. Honestly, it is just so immature to giggle at toilet humor.
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