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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

Captain Underpants:
The First Epic Movie
Film poster showing Captain Underpants, standing on top of a building. Behind him is a moon showing a silhouette of a pair of underwear.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Soren
Screenplay byNicholas Stoller
Based onCaptain Underpants
by Dav Pilkey
Produced by
Starring
Edited byMatthew Landon
Music byTheodore Shapiro
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
Running time
90 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$38 million[4]
Box office$125.4 million[5]

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is a 2017 American animated superhero comedy film based on Dav Pilkey's children's novel series, titled Captain Underpants, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film was directed by David Soren from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, and stars the voices of Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Thomas Middleditch, Jordan Peele, and Kristen Schaal, the film was released during the 20th anniversary of the Captain Underpants series. In the film, two fourth-grade pranksters, named George and Harold, hypnotize their humorless principal, named Mr. Krupp, into thinking he is a superhero, named Captain Underpants. The film loosely adapts the first, the second, the fourth, and the eleventh Captain Underpants books.

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie first premiered at the Regency Village Theatre, in Los Angeles, California, in the United States, on May 21, 2017, and was first released theatrically in theatres, in the United States, on June 2, 2017, in both the 2-D and the 3-D formats. The film received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the animation, humor, faithfulness, and references to its source material, and voice acting. It grossed $125 million worldwide against a budget for $38 million, the lowest budget for a film from DreamWorks Animation, until 2021, with Spirit Untamed, which had a budget for $30 million.[6]

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie was the last film from DreamWorks Animation to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, following the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation by both Comcast and NBCUniversal in 2016. Universal Pictures began distributing films from DreamWorks Animation beginning from 2019 with How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

A spin-off television series, titled The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, premiered on Netflix on July 13, 2018, while a spin-off film, titled Dog Man, is slated to be released by Universal Pictures on January 31, 2025.[7]

Plot

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In Piqua, Ohio, best friends and next-door neighbors George Beard and Harold Hutchins create comic books, their latest creation being a superhero named Captain Underpants. They are fourth-graders at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, where their excessive pranks to cheer up their fellow students put them at odds with their cruel principal Benjamin Krupp. One day, they are tamper with their classmate Melvin Sneedly's invention, the Turbo Toilet 2000, during a Saturday mandatory Invention Convention to liven up the other kids' weekend. Mr. Krupp uses one of Melvin's other inventions to record the boys enacting the prank, and prepares to put George and Harold in separate classes in hopes of ending their friendship.

George hypnotizes Mr. Krupp using a 3-D Hypno-Ring from a cereal box before Mr. Krupp can sign the papers to separate George and Harold. They command Mr. Krupp to become Captain Underpants, leading him to cause trouble around town. After taking him to their treehouse, the boys discover that they can turn Captain Underpants back into Mr. Krupp by splashing water on him and back into Captain Underpants by snapping their fingers. To keep Mr. Krupp from separating them, they convince Captain Underpants that Mr. Krupp is his secret identity. His change in personality attracts the attention of the school's shy lunch lady Edith.

Meanwhile, Professor Pee-Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants, Esquire is hired as the school's new science teacher, though George and Harold are suspicious of his violent behavior. Poopypants, who invented a Nobel Prize-winning sizerator capable of shrinking and enlarging things, is sick of never being taken seriously due to his name, and seeks to eliminate all laughter. With Captain Underpants as principal, the school becomes a livelier place, but a rainstorm turns Captain Underpants back into Mr. Krupp, who officially places George and Harold in separate classes.

Poopypants and Melvin grow the Turbo Toilet 2000, power it with Edith's toxic leftovers, and use it to attack the school. Poopypants uses Melvin's brain, which lacks the part that causes laughter, to power a ray that turns the students into dull, humorless zombies. Captain Underpants tries to stop them but, having no superpowers, is thrown into the toxic waste. George and Harold are captured, but the power of a joke that made them friends in kindergarten overloads the Turbo Toilet 2000, returning the kids to normal and trapping Melvin in giant toilet paper. The toxic leftovers give Captain Underpants real superpowers and, with George and Harold's help, he defeats and shrinks Poopypants, who escapes on a bee.

Unable to control Captain Underpants forever, George and Harold destroy the Hypno-Ring to permanently change him back into Mr. Krupp, but swear to remain friends. However, after realizing that Mr. Krupp would be nicer if he had friends, they set him and Edith up on a date, causing Krupp to have a change of heart and return the comics he confiscated from George and Harold. However, the toxic waste from the Turbo Toilet 2000 transforms the toilets at a scrapyard into an army of Talking Toilets, which attack the restaurant where Mr. Krupp and Edith are dining. After unwittingly snapping his fingers, Mr. Krupp is once again transformed into Captain Underpants, to Edith's surprise and admiration, and he flies away with George and Harold to face their next adventure together.

Voice cast

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The main cast of the film played by Ed Helms, (Mr. Krupp/Captain Underpants) Kevin Hart (George Beard), Nick Kroll (Professor Poopypants), and Thomas Middleditch (Harold).

Production

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DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation first interested the film rights to the Captain Underpants series dates back to when the first installment was published in 1997, but creator Dav Pilkey did not want to sell them. Early pitches for an adaptation included video games, animated and live-action films, an animated series, and a live-action series. To persuade him, DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation gave Pilkey a tour around the studio with everyone wearing underpants over their trousers, which made him laugh.[10] In October 2011, his representatives indicated Pilkey was ready, and DreamWorks Animation won the rights in an auction.[11] In October 2013, Rob Letterman was announced as director and Nicholas Stoller as scriptwriter.[12] The two had previously worked together on the film Gulliver's Travels. In January 2014, the cast was announced; Ed Helms as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp, Kevin Hart as George Beard, Thomas Middleditch as Harold Hutchins, Nick Kroll as the "insidious villain" Professor Poopypants, and Jordan Peele as George and Harold's "nerdy nemesis" Melvin Sneedly.[8]

Director David Soren screened the film at the 2017 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.[13]

In 2014, DreamWorks Animation announced a January 2017 release date.[14] Following DreamWorks Animation's reorganization in early 2015, the studio announced that the film would be produced outside of the studio's pipeline at a significantly lower cost.[15] It was instead animated at Mikros Image in Montreal, Canada, and at Technicolor Animation Productions in France, and therefore looks identical to Pilkey's original drawing style, as well as differently than many of the DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation films.[16] A month later, Letterman left the project but came back as an executive producer, and David Soren, the director of Turbo, entered talks to direct the film.[17]

During production, Pilkey got to work closely with Soren. He was relieved that Soren was directing since he was a fan of Turbo. In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Pilkey said: "Once I met David, it was like a huge load fell off my back; I was like, 'I don't even have to think about this anymore. Just send me a couple of tickets to the premiere.'"[10] Commenting back, Soren said, "In a way, the controversy over the books ended up being liberating for the film. Normally on an animated movie, you're trying to appeal to every possible demographic, and often that results in your content being watered down a little bit. Obviously, we hope we get as wide of an audience as possible. But it's likely that if people have issues with the books they may have issues with the movie too, and we didn't feel like we needed to waste a lot of time trying to rope them in. It allowed us to make the purest version of the movie."[10] Soren also said that he took inspiration from John Hughes films. In an interview with MovieFreak, he mentioned,

"We actually looked at a lot of John Hughes movies for inspiration, like Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Weird Science. John Hughes had this great knack for making comedies like this. Both of those movies have great friendships at the center of them. He seemed to be able to tap into the voice of a generation. They're very funny, all of his movies, but they are also poignant and they actually have meaningful things to say, which I think is why they have stood the test of time. So there's timelessness to his work that we were attempting to go for with this."[18]

While it is a 2017 American 3-D computer-animated film, the film includes scenes that are cel-animation, flash-animation, a short cutout-animation segment, and a sock-puppet sequence created by Screen Novelties.

Music

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Soundtrack

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"Weird Al" Yankovic wrote and performed the theme song for the film (which is possibly a reference to the first book, where in Mr. Krupp mentions one of George and Harold's pranks was rigging the school intercoms to "play "Weird Al" Yankovic songs full blast for 6 hours straight"), which was featured in a lyric video. Andy Grammer wrote another original song for the film, titled "A Friend Like You".[19] The film also features music from Adam Lambert, Cold War Kids member Nathan Willett, and Lil Yachty.[19] An 11-track soundtrack album was released digitally on June 2, 2017, by Virgin Records and Deep Well Records.[20]

Track listing

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No.TitleArtistLength
1."Captain Underpants Theme Song""Weird Al" Yankovic[a]2:14
2."A Friend Like You"Andy Grammer3:40
3."Saturday (cast version)"Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch0:48
4."Think"Adam Lambert2:59
5."1812 Ofarture"The Students of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School1:08
6."Hallelujah"Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms0:39
7."Oh Yeah"Lil Yachty[b]2:51
8."Saturday"Nathan Willett3:29
9."Comic Book Opening"Theodore Shapiro1:54
10."Saving the Day"Theodore Shapiro7:22
11."The Prank for Good"Theodore Shapiro5:38
Total length:32:42
  1. ^ featuring audio footage by Ed Helms
  2. ^ Samples the Yello song of the same name

Score

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The music score was scored by Theodore Shapiro.[19] A soundtrack for the score of the film was released on June 9. It features 24 pieces of music, and an exclusive digital booklet on iTunes. Three of the scores are also available on the soundtrack (those being "Comic Book Opening", "Saving the Day", and "The Prank for Good").

Release

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Theatrical

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie was previously scheduled to be released on March 10, 2017,[17] but in September 2015, The Boss Baby took over its date.[21] The film was then moved to June 2, 2017.[22][23] Other territories such as Europe and Asia received the film between July and October 2017. The film first premiered at the Regency Village Theatre, in Los Angeles, California, in the United States, on May 21, 2017.[24] The film was chosen alongside with the 2017 Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation film, titled The Emoji Movie, to inaugurate the removal of Saudi Arabia's cinema ban through a double feature screening on January 13, 2018, organized by Cinema 70; they were the first two movies to be given an official public screening in the country in 35 years.[25]

Home media

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie was first released digitally, on digital download, in the United States, on August 29, 2017, and was first released digitally, on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, in the United States, on September 12, 2017.[26] From January 10, 2018, to July 10, 2019, the film was available on Netflix, the film returned to the streaming platform after 4 years on July 10, 2023.

Reception

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Box office

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie grossed $73.9 million in the United States and Canada and $51.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $125.5 million, against a production budget of $38 million.[5]

In North America, the film was released alongside Wonder Woman, and was projected to gross around $20 million from 3,434 theaters in its opening weekend.[27] It made $8 million on its first day and $23.9 million in its opening weekend, finishing second at the box office, behind Wonder Woman ($103.3 million).[28][29] The film grossed $12.2 million in its second weekend, $7.2 million in its third and $4.3 million in its fourth.[30]

Critical response

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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87% based on 138 reviews and an average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "With a tidy plot, clean animation, and humor that fits its source material snugly, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is entertainment that won't drive a wedge between family members."[31] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 70 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[32] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[28]

Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars. Although Seitz pointed out that the film is hampered by "a rushed, jumbled quality" and has "tiresome" features that he says are common to DreamWorks, such as "frenetic action scenes ... and the use of workhorse pop songs", he emphasized that "[t]hey've approached this compendium of elemental slapstick and unabashed childishness with the reverence that the Coen brothers brought to No Country for Old Men." He further added that the inclusion of the flipbook interludes are the film's best parts, especially in having the pages accidentally be torn similar to the real books, stating that "[i]t's not often that a movie puts a spotlight on a mundane ritual in your own life that you never realized was profound and says, 'You probably forgot about this, but I want you to remember it and savor it because it meant something.'"[33]

Accolades

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Award Category Recipient(s) Result
Annie Award[34] Best Animated Feature Mireille Soria and Mark Swift Nominated
Music in an Animated Feature Production Theodore Shapiro
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Nick Kroll
Detroit Film Critics Society[35] Best Animated Film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Empire Awards[36]
[37] 		Best Animated Film Nominated
Golden Tomato Awards 2017[38] Best Animated Film 5th Place
Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2017[39] Best Original Song - Animated Film "Captain Underpants Theme Song" for "Weird Al" Yankovic Nominated
Best Original Score - Animated Film Theodore Shapiro
International Film Music Critics Association[40][41] Best Original Score - Animated Film Won
IGN Awards[42] Best Animated Movie Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Nominated
Kids' Choice Awards[43] Favorite Animated Film Nominated
Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society[44][45] Best Animated Film Nominated
St. Louis Film Critics Association[46] Best Animated Feature David Soren
16th Visual Effects Society Awards[47] Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature David Soren, Mark Swift, Mireille Soria, David Dulac

Spin-offs

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Spin-off television series

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Main article: The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

On December 12, 2017, Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television announced that there would be an animated series to spin off the film, entitled The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants.[48][49] It premiered on the streaming service on July 13, 2018,[50] and is executive-produced by Peter Hastings.

Spin-off film

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Main article: Dog Man (film)

On December 9, 2020, DreamWorks Animation announced that a feature film adaptation of Dog Man (another one of George and Harold's comic creations) is currently in the works by director Peter Hastings, the showrunner for The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants.[51]

The movie is scheduled for release on January 31, 2025.[52][53]

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