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* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story from the first book, but with the fourth book's Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler:He's also seen fighting a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000 from the second book, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions, and he gains real superpowers like the third book]].
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* AmusingInjuries: Mr. Krupp is hit by a car shortly after becoming Captain Underpants for the first time.
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* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModificatiln: Falls on the "Near Identical Adaptation" end of it. The story condenses elements from the books and changes a couple plot points, but its very faithful to the source material in both story and spirit. The films art style matches the books cartoon drawings to a tee, and even Flip-O-Rama is incorporated into the film.
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* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModificatiln: SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: Falls on the "Near Identical Adaptation" end of it. The story condenses elements from the books and changes a couple plot points, but its very faithful to the source material in both story and spirit. The films art style matches the books cartoon drawings to a tee, and even Flip-O-Rama is incorporated into the film.
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** The "Everything Except Fabric Softener" store from book five can be seen as a background gag; so does a billboard for "John's House of Toilets", featured in book 7.
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* AnalogyBackfire: Captain Underpants proudly boasts of how he can take to the sky like an ostrich in the trailer. [[FalseReassurance He's not wrong.]]
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Previews: [[https://youtu.be/zs2SrqLum1M Trailer]]
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* RaceLift: Miss Anthrope is black in this film, compared to in the books where, while they're always monochrome, she doesn't have the shade of gray to signify that.
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* EveryoneHatesMimes: Played for laughs in the trailer, when the Captain encounters a mime in the street and George and Harold watch from around the corner...
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* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story from the first book, but with the fourth book's Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler:He's also seen fighting a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000 from the second book, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions, and Captain Underpants he gains real superpowers like the third book]].
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* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story from the first book, but with the fourth book's Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler:He's also seen fighting a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000 from the second book, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions, and Captain Underpants gains real superpowers like the third book]].
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* CallBack: The image of Captain Underpants standing heroically on top of a building on the image seen above is one towards the very first cover of the book series.
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* LargeHam: Ed Helms seems to be bringing this both as Mr. Krupp and Captain Underpants.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Instead of blackmailing the boys, Mr. Krupp opts to go with the much more mundane solution of simply putting them in different classes, believing it will destroy their friendship. He, George, and Harold treat this scheme like it's an outright diabolical scheme.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Instead of blackmailing the boys, Mr. Krupp opts to go with the much more mundane solution of simply putting them in different classes, believing it will destroy their friendship. He, George, and Harold treat this scheme decision like it's an outright diabolical scheme.
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamWorksAnimation film based on the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book series. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Creator/KevinHart) and Harold Hutchins (Creator/ThomasMiddleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Creator/EdHelms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Creator/JordanPeele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, Creator/KristenSchaal as Edith, the school lunch lady (and Mr. Krupp's love interest), and Creator/NickKroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamWorksAnimation film based on the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book series. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Creator/KevinHart) and Harold Hutchins (Creator/ThomasMiddleditch) (Thomas Middleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Creator/EdHelms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Creator/JordanPeele who will voice Melvin, Melvin Sneedly, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, Creator/KristenSchaal as Edith, the school lunch lady (and Mr. Krupp's love interest), and Creator/NickKroll Nick Kroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story, but with Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler:He's also seen using a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Instead of being pushed over the edge of madness by George and Harold's cruel comicbook, Professor Poopypants starts out as a villain the moment he becomes a teacher at their school.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Instead of being pushed over the edge of madness by George and Harold's cruel comicbook, Professor Poopypants starts out as a villain the moment he becomes a teacher at their school.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story, story from the first book, but with the fourth book's Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler:He's also seen using fighting a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000, 2000 from the second book, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions.]]
inventions, and gains real superpowers like the third book]].
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamWorksAnimation film based on the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book series. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Creator/KevinHart) and Harold Hutchins (Creator/ThomasMiddleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Creator/EdHelms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Creator/JordanPeele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, Creator/KristenSchaal as Edith, the school lunch lady (and Mr. Krupp' Krupp's love interest), and Creator/NickKroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamWorksAnimation film based on the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book series. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Creator/KevinHart) and Harold Hutchins (Creator/ThomasMiddleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Creator/EdHelms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Creator/JordanPeele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, Creator/KristenSchaal as Edith, the school lunch lady (and Mr. Krupp' love interest), and Creator/NickKroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
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* RaceLift: Miss Anthrope is black in this film, compared to her book self who, while they're always monochrome, doesn't have such a shade to signify that.
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamworksAnimation Creator/DreamWorksAnimation film based on the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book series. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Creator/KevinHart) and Harold Hutchins (Creator/ThomasMiddleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Creator/EdHelms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Creator/JordanPeele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, and Creator/NickKroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story, but with Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler: He's [[spoiler:He's also seen using a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions.]]
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* EveryoneHatesMimes: Played for laughs in the trailer, when the Captain encounters a mime in the street and George and Harold watch from around the corner--
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'''Captain Underpants:''' I will set you free! (''punches the Mime with a honking sound effect, knocking him over'')\\
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Captain Underpants, even more so than his original iteration from the novels.
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamworksAnimation film based on the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book series. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Kevin Hart) (Creator/KevinHart) and Harold Hutchins (Thomas Middleditch) (Creator/ThomasMiddleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Ed Helms), (Creator/EdHelms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Jordan Peele Creator/JordanPeele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, and Nick Kroll Creator/NickKroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
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-->'''Captain Underpants:''' Poor soul! You are trapped in some sort of invisible box-like prison!\\'''Harold:''' Is it OK that I'm kind of loving this?\\
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'''Harold:''' Is it OK that I'm kind of loving this?\\
'''Harold:''' Is it OK that I'm kind of loving this?\\
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamworksAnimation film based on the children's ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book series of the same name.series. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Kevin Hart) and Harold Hutchins (Thomas Middleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Ed Helms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Jordan Peele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, and Nick Kroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamworksAnimation film based on the children's book series of the same name. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Kevin Hart) and Harold Hutchins (Thomas Middleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Ed Helms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Jordan Peele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, and Nick Kroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
Trailers: [[https://youtu.be/zs2SrqLum1M Trailer 1]]
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story, but with Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler: He's also seen using a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions.]]
* AllCGICartoon: Much like ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' before it, the style for this film is pretty much a direct translation of Dav Pilkey's art in a CG space.
* EveryoneHatesMimes: Played for laughs in the trailer, when the Captain encounters a mime in the street and George and Harold watch from around the corner--
-->'''Captain Underpants:''' Poor soul! You are trapped in some sort of invisible box-like prison!\\'''Harold:''' Is it OK that I'm kind of loving this?\\
'''George:''' Yes and no.\\
'''Captain Underpants:''' I will set you free! (''punches the Mime with a honking sound effect, knocking him over'')\\
'''George and Harold:''' Oooooh!\\
'''George:''' ...but mostly yes!
* MediumBlending: According to the filmmakers, Flip-O-Rama will be incorporated into the film alongside the usage of stop-motion, traditional animation and sock puppetry.
* MythologyGag:
** The "Everything Except Fabric Softener" store from book five can be seen as a background gag; so does a billboard for "John's House of Toilets", featured in book 7.
** [[http://colorsplash.tumblr.com/post/158500951596/the-preview-for-the-official-guide-book-also-has The tie-in handbook]] reveals that the Captain's comic backstory in this one is a slightly tweaked version of the {{Retcon}}ned Franchise/{{Superman}} parody one George and Harold give him in book five.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: There's a quick shot at the end of the first trailer of [[spoiler:Captain Underpants flying, which means he ''will'' get his superpowers at some point. It also shows off the giant Turbo-Toilet 2000-esque robot Poopypants uses.]]
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''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'' is a Creator/DreamworksAnimation film based on the children's book series of the same name. Two scheming fourth graders, George Beard (Kevin Hart) and Harold Hutchins (Thomas Middleditch) whose personal missions are to play pranks, hide in their secret treehouse and write comic books. But when they accidentally bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Ed Helms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary. Rounding out the cast will be Jordan Peele who will voice Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold, and Nick Kroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants.
Trailers: [[https://youtu.be/zs2SrqLum1M Trailer 1]]
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to be an amalgamation of the best parts of each of the original books, as it's the Captain's origin story, but with Professor Poopypants as the antagonist. [[spoiler: He's also seen using a giant robot that heavily resembles the Turbo-Toilet 2000, which appears to be an evolved form of one of Melvin's inventions.]]
* AllCGICartoon: Much like ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' before it, the style for this film is pretty much a direct translation of Dav Pilkey's art in a CG space.
* EveryoneHatesMimes: Played for laughs in the trailer, when the Captain encounters a mime in the street and George and Harold watch from around the corner--
-->'''Captain Underpants:''' Poor soul! You are trapped in some sort of invisible box-like prison!\\'''Harold:''' Is it OK that I'm kind of loving this?\\
'''George:''' Yes and no.\\
'''Captain Underpants:''' I will set you free! (''punches the Mime with a honking sound effect, knocking him over'')\\
'''George and Harold:''' Oooooh!\\
'''George:''' ...but mostly yes!
* MediumBlending: According to the filmmakers, Flip-O-Rama will be incorporated into the film alongside the usage of stop-motion, traditional animation and sock puppetry.
* MythologyGag:
** The "Everything Except Fabric Softener" store from book five can be seen as a background gag; so does a billboard for "John's House of Toilets", featured in book 7.
** [[http://colorsplash.tumblr.com/post/158500951596/the-preview-for-the-official-guide-book-also-has The tie-in handbook]] reveals that the Captain's comic backstory in this one is a slightly tweaked version of the {{Retcon}}ned Franchise/{{Superman}} parody one George and Harold give him in book five.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: There's a quick shot at the end of the first trailer of [[spoiler:Captain Underpants flying, which means he ''will'' get his superpowers at some point. It also shows off the giant Turbo-Toilet 2000-esque robot Poopypants uses.]]
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