"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.

Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" novels for young readers have sold over 80 million copies, as the show's press release points out, and there's a good reason why; it's about friendship, turning ...

20th Century Fox’s animated adventure Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie tells the story of a grouchy principal who turns into the underwear-clad, super-powered invention of his two least ...

Captain Underpants, the star of a series of bestselling children's books by author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. Dav Pilkey/Scholastic His mom and dad, however, encouraged his ...

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 ...

Captain Underpants is merely stripping this down, reveling in a strangeness that, as it turns out, isn’t that strange after all. Still, we advise you to keep most of your clothes on whether you ...

Film Review: ‘Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie’ An animated version of Dav Pilkey's children's novel is aimed at your inner 5-year-old. But it's real 5-year-olds who will dig it.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- In hopes of staying grounded in reality, let's just pose the question: What nine-year-old boy could possibly resist any movie with the word "underpants" in the title? The nine ...