It’s hard to say the name “Captain Underpants” without smiling, and the big-screen debut of the skivvies-clad superhero (the film’s subtitle is “The First Epic Movie”) maintains that ...

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 ...

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.” Of course ...

The creator of Captain Underpants, Pilkey’s penned other major youth-skewing books that have garnered prominent fan bases, such as the Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot series. In the modern world ...

Let's face it. When you're a kid, sometimes adults can be a real drag. The new Captain Underpants book puts it this way: "Did you ever notice how grown-ups hate it when kids are having fun?" ...

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 ...

Because he's the author and illustrator of the hugely popular "Captain Underpants" series -- also a big movie this past summer. It's about a mean grade school principal who is hypnotized by two ...

But it's real 5-year-olds who will dig it. The title character of “Captain Underpants” is a scolding meanie of a grade-school principal who is hypnotized into getting in touch with his inner ...

The nine-year-old I used to be sure couldn't have. Which is why Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie will have elementary schoolers cackling and guffawing before the opening credits even roll.

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 ...