Now I know I haven't reviewed a movie and a TV show since my Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs (2017) review, but I decided to not only go back with IMDb reviews since the most recent movies I've saw didn't make me fell like reviewing it, but to express my opinions on movies and TV shows, anyway, let's review Captain Undrepants, yeah! Before I explain the plot, let me tell you about the Captain Underpants books by Dav Pilkey, I read them as a young kid (Ok, not all of them, but just the four first books, the 6th, the 8th and the 9th), anyway, back to the review. The plot is about George and Harold, two best friends who study with the worst principal ever, Mr. Krupp, when they hear that they're going to live in separate classes after one of Melvin's inventions catch them, George finds a hypnosis ring which turns Krupp into Captain Underpants, while George and Harold are having fun with the captain, a mad scientist\teacher named professor PoopyPants wants to exterminate a brain organ which makes people laugh, since at a bunch of people laughed at him when he presented his shrinking ray and a lady says his real name out loud, so he joins with Melvin (the bummer) to defeat this organ who ruined his reputation. Let's start with the pros: The first pro of this movie is that the story does pay some homage to the 1st and 4th book, hell, a lot of the scenes from the movie where taken by the books, and that's what makes it feel like a book adaptation, the second pro is the animation, my god, is the animation wonderful, first off, it really pulls of some cartoon style animation, which pays of a big relation with the illustrations of the books, the character animation and character design really fit the characters very well, and when you compare this to something like The peanuts movie, you'll notice relations, with the character design, but the movements are much fluid instead of cartoon effects mashed together, and when the animation becomes different, it really feels like this guys really experienced the animation and how can they change a lot of things, the third pro is the humor, I know some parents might come to the review and say "But this is gross, our kids need better", yes, but when you look at the titles of the books, you'll notice both of these have immature humor, but even at that, a lot of scenes can have slapstick and pull of strong humor, hell even some of the gross out made me kinda laugh, hell, the humor was so funny, the whole theater was laughing together, and they're right, this is funny, a lot, and the fourth pro is the characters of George and Harold, I really like how they depict school and they're teachers as evil creatures that'll transform there future into pure crap, I like how there fourth wall breaks that talk to the audience, but not something that can make the audience insane like the newer SML videos, but they aren't in a level of Deadpool, is just kids talking to the audience in there own way, and they really have a strong relationship together. Oh, but wait, you thought there were no cons, I'm sorry, but there are: The first con is that the story, while paying a great homage to Pilkey's amazing collection of Capatin Underpants, is very clichéd, I mean, "beings discover an unknown creature and they try to hide it from society", now where you've seen this plot before, ahem ahem E.t, ahem ahem, Iron Giant,ahem ahem Monsters Inc. ahem ahem, see what I mean, there are so much movies this rips off, and it rather becomes an unoriginal piece of work, another issue is the ending, while giving some George and Harold character development, the ending isn't very good, it's about the Talking toilet 2000 spewing goo which makes toilets come to life, and this is the other time Attack of the talking toilets come in handy, then Krupp turns into Captain Underpants and it ends with them revealing what will happen in the sequel, and this ending has a problem, because this scene introduces the talking toilets, and Dreamworks wanted to mix in the first four books, so it has no reason to the toilets to get introduced in the ending, rather than in some prat between the final battle. Overall, Captain Unedrpants is definitely the most popular animated movie of summer 2017 and certainly the 2nd best animated film of 2017, even if you didn't read the actual books, I still think you're going to enjoy this film.
