But Captain Underpants was among a different breed–much like the “Idiot Box” episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, where Spongebob and Patrick create their own imaginary world in a cardboard box.

“Dog Man,” an animated adventure set in the “Captain Underpants” universe, will sniff and scratch its way to the top of box office charts over the weekend. Universal and DreamWorks ...

“Dog Man,” an animated adventure set in the “Captain Underpants” universe, will sniff and scratch its way to the top of box office charts over the weekend. Universal and DreamWorks ...

“Dog Man,” an animated adventure set in the “Captain Underpants” universe, opened in first place at the domestic box office.

I mean the name Captain Underpants — that suggests booger and vomit and fart jokes, and even as a child, I was unmoved by them. (There is a kid character in the film who never laughs at anything ...

Turns out that Captain Underpants, of “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie,” is cut from the same moral cloth as the awesome Amazonian goddess Diana of “Wonder Woman.” ...