Ed Helms makes a bold briefs-uniformed entrance into the superhero world with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (in theaters Friday). Mr. Krupp, the school ... add the scene from 1987 ...

“The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants,” born as a series of massively ... close to experimental literature as books for elementary school kids ever get — when it wants to break into a ...

The plot follows two imaginative elementary school pranksters named George Beard and Harold Hutchins who hypnotize their cold-hearted principal, Mr. Krupp, into thinking he is Captain Underpants ...

using a hypnosis ring to transform cantankerous school principal Mr. Krupp (Ed Helms) into the jovial superhero Captain Underpants. What was meant to be a fleeting laugh becomes a major problem ...

Q: How old were you when you first doodled a proto-Captain Underpants? Pilkey ... for "acting out" -- disrupting class, vandalizing school property? Pilkey: Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!