Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
summertime is prime fourth dimension for big moving-picture show releases , specially for those films looking to attain a big audience of kids . Most animated smash hit make their debut during the summer , and DreamWorks is hoping to fall in the ranks of high - grossing summer menu with their late labor , Captain Underpants : The First Epic Movie .
base on the darling book serial publication of the same name , Captain Underpantstells the chronicle of Harold and George , two elementary school troublemakers who hypnotize their principal into thinking he is a laughable superhero . We run into the movie’shilarious posterdebut last calendar month , and find a sneaker peep at somepromo imageslate last year . Now , it looks like DreamWorks is really looking to ramp up excitement for the moving picture as they release its first - ever laggard .
The prevue promise a pic as loco and irreverent as its in - print predecessor , starting with a charming introduction to the promo by stars Ed Helms ( who dally Principal Krupp ) and Kevin Hart ( who plays Harold ) . Check out the first full trailer for Captain Underpants , above , to watch how the Captain himself add up to be .
This movie comes two years after the remnant of Dav Pilkey ’s darling eponymous book series . In the books , Harold and George are two harebrained friends who produce Captain Underpants when Principal Krupp blackmails them into doing extra prep and washing his car . It attend like the film adjustment will pull from Pilkey ’s first book , The Adventures of Captain Underpants , twenty years after it was first publish , but it also appears to conflate various component from across the serial publication . For example , antagonist Tippy Tinkletrousers ( sound by Nick Kroll ) does n’t make an appearing until the quaternary book in the series . Since this is being billed as " The First Epic Movie , " and is primed for box seat office success , a sequel is probable in the body of work , so it will be interesting to see how that fits in with DreamWorks ' page - to - silver screen adaption process .
Whether you ’re a fan of the original serial publication or not , so farCaptain Underpantspromises to be harmless fun for kidskin and families . With an all - star comedy cast and a cool animation panache that honors the serial ' original art , it looks like this adaptation will do Pilkey and his generations of fan majestic . You should plausibly stay away from this particular 2017 superhero movie if you do n’t care for toilette humour , though .
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