Review of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) by Davidwashere — 21 Sep 2017

As someone that grew up reading the books as a kid, the movie did the source material justice! The decision to keep the animation look similar to the original drawings was brilliant, not only because it was faithful, but it looks so good.

This is one of the most expressive animated movies I've seen in some time, especially from DreamWorks! This movie is gleefully juvinile and silly but it works so well with the movie rebelling in it's ridiculousness.

From Ed Helms's brilliant performance as the titular hero to Nick Kroll's voice work as the maniacal Professor Poopypants, the voice cast is stellar. Especially with Kevin Hart voicing a third grader, which would have been off-putting in normal circumstances hearing an adult voice a kid, but it works in it's favor for the manic goofiness the movie brings.

The humor is unfortunately the big problem with the movie, sadly. Not because it's bad, it certainly isn't, even if the toilet humor does run the line of being a bit obnoxious. However, much like the Lego Movie, the writers throw every joke they can think of and see if they stick.

It's like an assault riffle of jokes. Which isn't bad, however it does become a bit too much. Plus the main conflict of the movie does not have a good payoff by the end with Harold and George realizing that they have a non-conflict at the end and just say "Eh" to not sharing classes.