“Captain Underpants” has no shortage of inflatable gorillas and giant ... the movie allows them to guide the storytelling to flip-books and even sock-puppet theater at appropriate moments ...

The plot pulls from four installments of Dav Pilkey’s 12-book series about the adventures of 4th-grade pranksters George Beard and Harold Hutchins and their invented superhero, Captain Underp… ...

Swift adds that the Captain Underpants material was the right fit for this model, ... We also used sock puppets and combined 2D and 3D to make a version of their flip-book sketches. ...

It takes a real creative knucklehead to make sock puppets unfunny. Luckily, ... Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is now streaming on Netflix, Dog Man hits theaters everywhere January 31.

"The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants," born as a series of massively successful books by Dav Pilkey, has become a charmingly subversive, knockabout cartoon series, streaming as of Friday on Netflix.

Unless you have fond memories of Dav Pilkey’s series of books, it’s entirely possible that Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie has tra-la-laaa’d its way into cinemas under your radar ...

Captain Underpants’ plethora of animation styles (including a wonderful sock puppet sequence) separates the film into imaginative sublayers, keeping it from feeling like the one-joke wonder that ...

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” achieves a convincingly hand-drawn look in the characters’ chunky oval bodies, ... enacted by sock puppets. Related Articles. May 29, 2025 How Boulder politics, ...

Review ‘Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie’ ♦♦♦. Credits: Directed by David Soren, with the voices of Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms Running time/rating: 1:29, PG for ...

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 ...