Cap­tain Under­pants: The First Epic Movie

In this charm­ing, warm-heart­ed and very fun­ny ani­mat­ed com­e­dy, Kevin Hart and Thomas Mid­dled­itch star as best friends George and Harold, fourth grade pranksters who wreak hav­oc by day and write com­ic books by, well, ear­ly evening. But not even this mis­chie­vous pair could antic­i­pate that wav­ing a cere­al pack­et hyp­no­sis charm in the face of the tyran­nous prin­ci­pal Mr Krupp (Ed Helms) would turn him into Cap­tain Under­pants, the hero-of-sorts from their com­ic book creation.

Humor­ous­ly attired in briefs and a cape ​‚and with the intel­li­gence and super abil­i­ty of a big toe, it doesn’t look too like­ly that he will be able to save the school from a das­tard­ly new sci­ence teacher known as Pro­fes­sor Poopy­pants (Nick Kroll).

Who would have thought that an ani­mat­ed film cen­tred around toi­let humour could be such a joy? Not only is Cap­tain Under­pants delight­ful­ly sil­ly, it is filled with smart one-lin­ers and visu­al gags that just keep com­ing. For young view­ers there is the touch­ing cama­raderie between George and Harold, who bond over their mutu­al hys­ter­ics at the men­tion of ​‘Uranus’, fire loo rolls at their class mates and declare their ever­last­ing friend­ship when threat­ened with sep­a­ra­tion. For the adults, there are quips about teach­ers’ salaries, drug­gy visu­als of kids smacked out on sug­ar, and a price­less joke about super­mod­els hav­ing as much humour as a chair.

Direc­tor David Soren plays around with the ani­ma­tion just as the boys exper­i­ment with their com­ic book draw­ings, switch­ing from com­put­er graph­ics to hand-drawn ani­ma­tion to a flick-book style sequence near the end of the film. There’s even a nod to Zoolander’s Mugatu, and some great fish-out-of-water laughs as the boys attempt to intro­duce Cap­tain Under­pants to the real world à la George of the Jun­gle. This is a film that will trans­port you back to your child­hood, sat­u­rat­ed with pure silli­ness and enough jokes to keep you gig­gling away.