Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (also known as Captain Underpants) is a 2017 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on Dav Pilkey's children's novel series of the same name, produced by DreamWorks Animation and Scholastic Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by David Soren from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, and stars the voices of Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch and Nick Kroll. In the film, two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, hypnotize their mean principal, Mr. Krupp, into thinking he is the titular "Captain Underpants", a superhero who fights crime while wearing only underwear and a cape, thinking he has superpowers.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie premiered on May 21, 2017 at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, and was released in the United States on June 2, in 3D and 2D formats. The film received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the animation, humor, faithfulness and references to its source material, and voice acting, particularly from Helms. It grossed $125 million worldwide against a budget of $38 million, the lowest budget for a DreamWorks Animation feature film until Spirit Untamed was released in 2021 at a budget of $30 million. A Netflix television series, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants was released on July 13, 2018, and ran for 4 seasons with 45 episodes and 3 specials.
This was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, as Universal Pictures would handle distribution of the company's films from How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) onward following NBCUniversal's purchase of the company in 2016.
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