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Captain Underpants/Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (DVD)
Stars: Voices: Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Thomas Middleditch, Jordan Peele, Kristen Schaal, DeeDee Rescher, Brian Posehn
Director: David Soren
When one of the key characters in this deliberately low-to-no-taste animated comedy, the evil chemistry professor aspiring to be a world dominator, is named P. P. Diahrreastein Poopypants, you can be certain that most youngsters are likely to enjoy the ensuing tsunami of cheerfully juvenile toilet humour and, of course, the now must-have genre trope of fart jokes galore..
Stoller's lunatic screenplay (derived from the series of best-selling books by author/illustrator Dav Pikey) centres on the chaos created by rascally schoolboy pranksters George and Harold who, after spending time in their tree house where the magic happens, create comics featuring the eponymous underwear-sporting superhero (surely destined for an Oscar for Best Support) and then proceed to hypnotize their hard-arse headmaster - using a ring given away with a cereal packet and transform him into their bombing Y-fronted superhero.
It might be worth persuading (bribing?) your kids to take you with them to see it. Bad taste hasn't tasted this good in a long, long time.
Alan Frank
USA 2017. UK Distributor: 20th Century Fox. Colour.
85 minutes. Not widescreen. UK certificate: U.
Guidance ratings (out of 3): Sex/nudity 0, Violence/Horror 0, Drugs 0, Swearing 0.
Review date: 07 Dec 2017