![]() Face it: You can't have a story with a character named Poopypants and bog it down with intricate plot twists and layered stories. evil.Ī simple story leaves more time for silly jokes and light-hearted humor. Nicholas Stoller's screenplay (he wrote the script for "Storks") never gets more complicated than good vs. Middleditch, Helms and Kroll also turn in solid work, but the sparkplug of this production is Hart. It's only Poopypants' day job, as he has a diabolical scheme to end all laughter that will start with the students at the Jerome Horwitz Elementary School.Ĭasting Hart was a superb move as he brings an energy to his acting roles that is on the same level as a third grader eating a bag of sugar for dinner. This proves helpful when the school gets a mad scientist, Professor Poopypants (Nick Kroll), as the new science teacher. Krupp into believing he's Captain Underpants. His plan is to split the friends by putting them in different classes but before he can make the move, George and Harold hypnotize Mr. The big difference is that the two best buds are also the masterminds behind a series of comics featuring Captain Underpants, a hero who fights evil dressed in only his tighty whities.Īll of their hijinks and the time spent on creating the comic books have attracted the wrath of the school's principal, Mr. The fruit of the lunacy starts with George and Harold (voiced by Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch), two elementary school buddies who spend more time pulling pranks than studying. Director David Soren opts to use a little higher-quality computer-generated style of animation, but while it gives the characters more substance, the essence of the characters and stories remain true to the source. The film follows relatively closely to the series of books written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey. If that planetary joke comes across as crass, then either skip the movie or lighten up a little. ![]() If you still giggle when someone mentions the seventh planet from the sun is Uranus, then get ready to blow some laugh snot bubbles. The important thing is that, while the prodction never reaches for intellectual grandeur, it is on a very basic level one of the funniest movies of the year. Of course, anyone of the animated feature film's target audience who has read one of the 70 million books sold around the world featuring the rotund hero and the elementary students who created him know that already. Krupp but due to the rain pouring too hard it is impossible."Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" is childish and silly. Krupp to turn back in Captain Underpants and Blunderpants back to Nice Mr. Good George and Harold snaps their fingers trying to get Nasty Mr. Krupp storms off, back to his house dressed as Captain Underpants, not contributing to what is going on around him and assuming it all a dream. Krupp comes into his trance becoming Captain Blunderpants, again breaking out of the ropes in rage as an angry Mr. Captain Underpants comes out of his trance into Nasty Mr. However, the moment is short-lived when it starts to rain and both begin to change as their happiness turns into pure anger and hatred. Later Captain Blunderpants and Captain Underpants were about to face off against one another in an epic battle but before it could happen, Good George snapped his fingers and Captain Blunderpants became Nice Mr. Krupp's head, transforming him into Captain Blunderpants and off they fly into the city to raise chaos. As they realized what reality they were in Evil George and Evil Harold get water on Nice Mr. ![]() Krupp (he wanted to pet Crackers), and Sulu with them. The duo finally get back to their dimension of the multiverse, but unintentionally bring Evil George, Evil Harold, Nice Mr. Krupp is nice and does not wear a toupee in this universe. History Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People Ĭontinuing from the previous book, George, Harold, Sulu, and Crackers have ended up in an alternate universe that is an opposite version of their own world. He appears only in Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People. ![]() He is from the alternate "Purple Potty" universe. Nice Benjamin Krupp is the nice counterpart of Benjamin Krupp. Please eat my plump, juicy boogers? That's gotta be the funniest thing I've seen all day! You boys really crack me up! You're hilarious! ![]()
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