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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) -- Here's what you need to know about Captain Underpants, in brief: He's a pudgy comic superhero in a red cape and white undies, who flies through the pages of a series of children's books ...

“Captain Underpants” achieves a convincingly hand-drawn look in the characters’ chunky oval bodies, in the buildings they inhabit and in the backgrounds against which the action is set.

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 ...

Scholastic Pulls Popular Book from 'Captain Underpants' Author Over 'Passive Racism' Distribution of the 2010 book The Adventures of Ook and Gluk has been halted with support from author Dav ...

O Captain, my Captain, your supposed nastiness beat out, ahem, E.L. James’s “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Seriously? I was just in the midst of writing about what I’m reading with my kids, ages ...

There are more than six million "Captain Underpants" books in print -- most of them in the grimy hands and under the unmade beds of 6- to 10-year-old boys, who seem especially fond of the books ...

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.