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 ...

and no amount of acting out will upend the essential unfairness of their position in the school world. Our students, especially the boys, loved Captain Underpants. The plots are fast-paced ...

“Our school library ... I don’t find myself quoting Captain Underpants that often, but the scene came to mind after I heard that NewSouth Books is releasing a “newly edited” version ...