George and Harold are big-time pranksters. They draw a comic strip in which they turn their mean principal into the superhero Captain Underpants who wears nothing but a red cape and underwear.

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 ...

Just in time for Christmas, DreamWorks has gifted EW with a first look image of Captain Underpants, an upcoming animated film based on Dav Pilkey’s popular book series. Ed Helms — best known ...

DreamWorks Animation has released an eight-minute video that includes every clip from Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. In the first clip, George and Harold are in their treehouse with ...

Dog Man includes two major cameos referencing Captain Underpants. Here's who appears and why the crossover happened in DreamWorks' movie.

In adapting Dav Pilkey's children's books for the big screen, Captain Underpants director David Soren (Turbo) and screenwriter Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors) get remarkably steady comic rewards out ...

“Captain Underpants” also imparts a universal lesson about the distinction between laughing with someone, rather than at them, and most important, about being able to laugh at yourself.

Why is David "Dav" Pilkey posing in a pair of giant tighty whities at a book appearance? Because he's the author and illustrator of the hugely popular "Captain Underpants" series -- also a big ...

Using posthypnotic suggestion, they get him to behave like their comic-book superhero, making the principal switch between Krupp and Captain Underpants with a dash of water in his face.

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'Captain Underpants' director David Soren discusses the animated film's wild visual aesthetic and its long journey to the screen.