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.
"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.