‘Captain Underpants’ and the New Push to Make Cheaper Animated Movies Outsourced to Canada with a budget of just $38 ?million, DreamWorks Animation’s film is a radical experiment in low-cost ...

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 ...

It’s unlikely that anyone going to a movie called “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” is anticipating a strong story filled with practical real-life lessons.

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 ...

"Captain Underpants" presents a bleak world, where the friendship between comic book artists George and Harold (voiced by Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch) is the only light.

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, 48, signed copies of his latest 'Captain Underpants' book and spoke to a packed Schulz Museum crowd about his struggles in school.

Instead of a sequel to Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, the next project in the franchise is based on a Captain Underpants spin-off, Dog Man.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sporting his trademark red cape, enormous tighty whities and literally nothing else, Captain Underpants is about to leap from the pages of Dav Pilkey's best-selling children's books into theaters ...