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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 ...

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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… ...