The film’s animation finds a happy medium between ... Throw in a heroic theme song by “Weird Al” Yankovic, and “Captain Underpants” covers all the bases as both a hilarious comedy ...

EXCLUSIVE: After a spirited auction, DreamWorks Animation has acquired rights to make a feature out of Captain Underpants, the popular 8-volume book series by Dav Pilkey.DreamWorks Animation wasn ...

which will be the last DreamWorks Animation title to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, tracking to open at about $25 million in North America. Swift adds that the Captain Underpants material was ...

and their favorite original superhero is Captain Underpants, an egg-shaped do-gooder in immaculate tighty-whities and a cape — thank goodness this is animation- – who looks, uncoincidentally ...

In the late 1990s, Dav Pilkey launched the first children’s novel of the Captain Underpants series—a series which would become tremendously popular among young readers. Despite the series ...

I don’t think Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie should ... between-plastic-and-Play-Doh appearance of so much computer animation of late, and there are scenes where the characters don ...

Feature animation executives will be keeping a close eye on this weekend’s opening of Dreamworks Animation’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie for a very good reason: its performance ...

Nick Kroll Thankfully DreamWorks is about to step in with 89 minutes of double-edged comedy animation. Based on a 12-book series by Dav Pilkey, Captain Underpants follows pint-sized pranksters ...

According to producers Mireille Soria and Mark Swift, what attracted Dreamworks Animation to “Captain Underpants” — the last title 20th Century Fox will be distributing before Universal ...

Dreamworks Animation has done right by the adaptation in hiring comedy filmmaker Nicholas Stoller to adapt the screenplay. The story of “Captain Underpants” is funny, fresh and frantic ...

That’s where Captain Underpants was born. RELATED: Dog Man: Everything to Know About New DreamWorks Animation Film Starring Pete Davidson A prolific writer, in addition to Captain Underpants and ...

They create their own comic books, and their favorite original superhero is Captain Underpants, an egg-shaped do-gooder in immaculate tighty-whities and a cape (thank goodness this is animation ...