Friday, September 22, 2017

Film Review - Captain Underpants (2017)

Captain Underpants is based off of a series of books and tells the tale of 2 young school boys George and Harold who create their own comic strip called Captain Underpants a loveable but dim witted superhero but when their school principal Mr Krupp threatens to put them in separate classes one of them hypnotises the principal into becoming Captain Underpants.

I don’t really have a lot to say about this film other than I laughed a lot pretty much throughout the whole film and many times out loud the film has a very brisk pace and sharp writing that feels like its piling on gag after gag after gag much like Airplane, The Naked Gun or Hot Shots would do and like those films I really laughed a lot.

Not to mention this movie actually has a really fun villain in Professor P (to reveal his full name would spoil the surprise) and his plan was pretty damn good and unlike so many supervillains in the Marvel Studios and DC film universes he wasn’t boring or forgettable he had a plan and he was great fun to watch while doing so.

And so that was Captain Underpants a film that made me laugh a lot and had a great villain which is more than most big budget superhero movies nowadays accomplish, 3 and a half out of 5.

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