Unable to control Captain Underpants forever, George and Harold destroy the Hypno-Ring to permanently change him back into Mr. 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. 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 causing Melvin to become trapped in a giant toilet paper. Captain Underpants tries to stop them but, having no superpowers, is thrown into the toxic waste. He also uses Melvin's brain to power a ray that turns the students into dull, humorless zombies. Poopypants recruits Melvin to his plan and attacks the school with a giant version of Melvin's Turbo Toilet 2000 fueled by Edith's toxic leftovers. Krupp, who officially places George and Harold in separate classes. With Captain Underpants as principal, the school becomes a livelier place, but a rainstorm turns Captain Underpants back into Mr. It is revealed that 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.
is hired as the school's new science teacher, though George and Harold are suspicious of his short-tempered and violent behavior. Meanwhile, evil scientist Professor Pee-Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants, Esq. His change in personality attracts the affections of the school's shy lunch lady, Edith. Krupp from separating them, they convince Captain Underpants that Mr. Krupp by splashing water on him and back into Captain Underpants by snapping their fingers. After taking him to their treehouse, the boys discover that they can turn Captain Underpants back into Mr. Krupp using a "3-D Hypno-Ring" from a cereal box and commands him to become Captain Underpants, leading him to cause trouble around town. Krupp prepares to put George and Harold in separate classes in hopes of ending their friendship. One day, they are caught on camera tampering with their classmate Melvin Sneedly's invention, the Turbo Toilet 2000. They attend Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, where their excessive pranks put them at odds with their cruel principal, Mr. In Piqua, Ohio, best friends George Beard and Harold Hutchins are fourth-graders who create comic books about a superhero named "Captain Underpants". Following NBCUniversal's acquisition of DreamWorks Animation in 2016, Universal Pictures began distributing DreamWorks's films, starting with How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).Ī Netflix television series, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, aired from 2018 to 2020, while a spin-off film, Dog Man, is set to release on Januby Universal.
The film was the last to be distributed by 20th Century Fox. It grossed $125 million worldwide against a budget of $38 million, the lowest budget for a DreamWorks Animation feature film until Spirit Untamed, which had a budget of $30 million. The film received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the animation, humor, faithfulness, and references to its source material, and voice acting, particularly from Helms. The movie loosely adapts the first, second, fourth, and eleventh Captain Underpants books.Ĭaptain Underpants: The First Epic Movie premiered on May 21, 2017, at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, and was released in the United States on June 2 in 3D and 2D formats. Krupp into thinking he is a superhero named Captain Underpants. In the film, fourth-grade pranksters George and Harold hypnotize their humorless principal Mr. The film was released during the 20th anniversary of the Captain Underpants series. It was directed by David Soren from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, and stars the voices of Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, and Nick Kroll. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is a 2017 American animated superhero comedy film based on Dav Pilkey's children's novel series Captain Underpants, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.