‘Captain Underpants’ and the New Push to Make Cheaper Animated Movies. ... CGI cartoon features come with their own steep production price ... He was very influenced by Peanuts, and I was, ...

Viewed in a movie theater, “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” is a much more immersive experience. The central characters are part of the cartoon, not distanced from it.

I remember back in elementary school, my friends would all read Captain Underpants, a silly comic book series by Dav Pilkey about a superhero who donned nothing but tighty-whities and a red cape.

Viewed in a movie theater, "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" is a much more immersive experience. The central characters are part of the cartoon, not distanced from it.

Dav Pilkey, 48, signed copies of his latest 'Captain Underpants' book and spoke to a packed Schulz Museum crowd about his struggles in school. A cranky-pants second-grade teacher set author and ...

Alliterative titles are de rigueur for Pilkey’s comic graphic fiction, so No. 12 in the series is “Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot” (Scholastic, 205 pages, $9 ...

Dav Pilkey finds toilets very funny, and so do the young readers of his “Captain Underpants” series. And, really, parents, it’s all your fault that your kids think potty humor is hysterical.

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie isn’t without flaws, including some pacing issues that indicate its 89-minute runtime could’ve been trimmed down further.

Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants novels began the chapterbook category in kids' fiction in 1997. The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins. Creating comic ...

Hannah Woodhead reviews Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - based on the popular series of children's books. Out on July 24th.

Move aside, Captain Underpants. Following up on the Oscar-nominated hit The Wild Robot , Universal and DreamWorks brought another popular children's book (well, comic) to the screen.