George and Harold didn't hypnotize Mr. Krupp because he was going to put them in seperate classes, they did it because he blackmailed them with a video tape, containing evidence that they sabotaged a football game. This concept just seems dumb and overdramatic.
Oh yeah, that's right, Mr. Krupp was that much of a dick. I guess they changed it because of its infamous complaints and people not in the know (or just really up-tight people) were going to complain about the movie, or they must've indeed changed a lot of the plot to fit in, what, four books?
But it's probably because of its reputation. From what I remember over the years, schools and parents banned the book over "insensitivity" and "encouraging children to disobey authority" among other complaints. It's also been two decades since the first book was published, behaviors toward teachers and schools have changed and they get offended pretty easily. (I mean, they always got offended, but they've been stepping up their game more and more that it's almost like kids can't be kids during recess--if that still exists--anymore.)
I don't mean to be that guy, but it's so different from the book, though.
George and Harold didn't hypnotize Mr. Krupp because he was going to put them in seperate classes, they did it because he blackmailed them with a video tape, containing evidence that they sabotaged a football game. This concept just seems dumb and overdramatic.
Also, why do George and Harold sound like they're adults?
And did you guys know that Harold is gay? It's revealed in the last book.
The concept of them being in different classes comes to play on the second-to-last book, though that one is because they were too tired from saving the day in the last book to do so.
As for Harold, he's like 9. Maybe it doesn't count for kid him.
Huh, interesting splice of books 1, 2, and 4. I actually approve since voicing aside, it felt pretty much like how the books went. They even did a good job reformatting why they got the hypno-ring too. I can see this going well with kids, since the charm of Captain Underpants was it's a bit crude and a bit of a sod-off to authority. It also made reading more enjoyable since Pilkey designed the books so that even lower level readers can understand and enjoy them. Might even turn a profit too.
Necroing this thread to say I saw the film and enjoyed it. It's definitely the better of the two DreamWorks films this year, it's just not a masterpiece. It's just silly, toilet humor fun much like the books were, though there were some liberties with the setting (they changed up things about the school and teachers so it wasn't as mean-spirited--but there's some jabs here and there) and it has its own original idea. They basically combined the plots of the first and fourth books, but brought in a few things from the second and third books, and everything else was referenced in some form or another. They even had some shout-outs to the books but with twists. You can definitely tell the team did their homework and that they enjoyed working on it.
The only real complaints I have are the fact they didn't have child actors for Harold, George and Melvin Sneedly, and they had to have fourth-wall breaking exposition in the beginning (sadly, no mention of Harold's bad haircut--but George had an afro as a little kid, so that's something). But weirdly enough, everything else was like how I imagined them to be in the books, voice-wise. Ed Helms was very lovable as Mr. Krupp and Captain Underpants, and Nick Kroll nailed Professor Poopypants.
Also the animation, while still the trademark DreamWorks style (though it does look like The Peanuts Movie), did take a lot of cues from the books. One of my favorite moments of this was when Mr. Krupp gave his twisted grin, just the way it was fleshed out cracked me up. There was also a really funny montage of George and Harold dicking around with Mr. Krupp that had perfect timing.
There is a fantastic segment, however, that was surprisingly original. Don't want to give away what it is, but...
...it involves sock puppets.
It has a sequel hook, as to be expected, but time will tell if more will be made. I honestly hope so, 'cause I want to see them tackle the Wedgie Woman, and to also give Dee Dee Rescher more lines. Tara Ribble should've had more scenes because I loved her voice so much.
Oh, a weird addition was a budding romance between Mr. Krupp and Edith the lunch lady. Not a big fan of that, but it's not front-and-center, at the very least.
Necroing this thread to say I saw the film and enjoyed it. It's definitely the better of the two DreamWorks films this year, it's just not a masterpiece. It's just silly, toilet humor fun much like the books were, though there were some liberties with the setting (they changed up things about the school and teachers so it wasn't as mean-spirited--but there's some jabs here and there) and it has its own original idea. They basically combined the plots of the first and fourth books, but brought in a few things from the second and third books, and everything else was referenced in some form or another. They even had some shout-outs to the books but with twists. You can definitely tell the team did their homework and that they enjoyed working on it.
The only real complaints I have are the fact they didn't have child actors for Harold, George and Melvin Sneedly, and they had to have fourth-wall breaking exposition in the beginning (sadly, no mention of Harold's bad haircut--but George had an afro as a little kid, so that's something). But weirdly enough, everything else was like how I imagined them to be in the books, voice-wise. Ed Helms was very lovable as Mr. Krupp and Captain Underpants, and Nick Kroll nailed Professor Poopypants.
Also the animation, while still the trademark DreamWorks style (though it does look like The Peanuts Movie), did take a lot of cues from the books. One of my favorite moments of this was when Mr. Krupp gave his twisted grin, just the way it was fleshed out cracked me up. There was also a really funny montage of George and Harold dicking around with Mr. Krupp that had perfect timing.
There is a fantastic segment, however, that was surprisingly original. Don't want to give away what it is, but...
...it involves sock puppets.
It has a sequel hook, as to be expected, but time will tell if more will be made. I honestly hope so, 'cause I want to see them tackle the Wedgie Woman, and to also give Dee Dee Rescher more lines. Tara Ribble should've had more scenes because I loved her voice so much.
Oh, a weird addition was a budding romance between Mr. Krupp and Edith the lunch lady. Not a big fan of that, but it's not front-and-center, at the very least.
I kinda wish they had done a first movie earlier so they could put out a movie with Wedgie Woman while Wonder Woman was out in theaters, the idiotic shitstorm on twitter from people who didn't know Captain Underpants would be amazing.
Necroing this thread to say I saw the film and enjoyed it. It's definitely the better of the two DreamWorks films this year, it's just not a masterpiece. It's just silly, toilet humor fun much like the books were, though there were some liberties with the setting (they changed up things about the school and teachers so it wasn't as mean-spirited--but there's some jabs here and there) and it has its own original idea. They basically combined the plots of the first and fourth books, but brought in a few things from the second and third books, and everything else was referenced in some form or another. They even had some shout-outs to the books but with twists. You can definitely tell the team did their homework and that they enjoyed working on it.
The only real complaints I have are the fact they didn't have child actors for Harold, George and Melvin Sneedly, and they had to have fourth-wall breaking exposition in the beginning (sadly, no mention of Harold's bad haircut--but George had an afro as a little kid, so that's something). But weirdly enough, everything else was like how I imagined them to be in the books, voice-wise. Ed Helms was very lovable as Mr. Krupp and Captain Underpants, and Nick Kroll nailed Professor Poopypants.
Also the animation, while still the trademark DreamWorks style (though it does look like The Peanuts Movie), did take a lot of cues from the books. One of my favorite moments of this was when Mr. Krupp gave his twisted grin, just the way it was fleshed out cracked me up. There was also a really funny montage of George and Harold dicking around with Mr. Krupp that had perfect timing.
There is a fantastic segment, however, that was surprisingly original. Don't want to give away what it is, but...
...it involves sock puppets.
It has a sequel hook, as to be expected, but time will tell if more will be made. I honestly hope so, 'cause I want to see them tackle the Wedgie Woman, and to also give Dee Dee Rescher more lines. Tara Ribble should've had more scenes because I loved her voice so much.
Oh, a weird addition was a budding romance between Mr. Krupp and Edith the lunch lady. Not a big fan of that, but it's not front-and-center, at the very least.
It has a sequel hook, as to be expected, but time will tell if more will be made. I honestly hope so, 'cause I want to see them tackle the Wedgie Woman, and to also give Dee Dee Rescher more lines. Tara Ribble should've had more scenes because I loved her voice so much.
Well, it's budget is like $38 million (according to Wikipedia, so it might be wrong). So it's safe to assume it'll gross a fair bit at the box office. Especially since it's up against Wonder Woman this weekend and all.
Going to see it fairly soon, when I was forced to read in elementary that'd be the only thing I'd pick up until I eventually got into Magic Treehouse. (which I wouldn't mind getting a movie at all)
Kinda sucks the kid is voiced by Kevin Hart though, I'm getting really tired of seeing him everywhere, he was okay at first but is really starting to get old. Somewhat off topic but yeah, not gonna let that fuck up the movie for me though. The animation looks very good and from what I've seen it looks very faithful.
Going to see it fairly soon, when I was forced to read in elementary that'd be the only thing I'd pick up until I eventually got into Magic Treehouse. (which I wouldn't mind getting a movie at all)
Kinda sucks the kid is voiced by Kevin Hart though, I'm getting really tired of seeing him everywhere, he was okay at first but is really starting to get old. Somewhat off topic but yeah, not gonna let that fuck up the movie for me though. The animation looks very good and from what I've seen it looks very faithful.
Holy shit I just realized Captain Underpants was directed by David Soren, the same guy who made his directorial debut with Turbo. Remember Turbo? Yeah, me neither. And Nicholas Stoller wrote the script--you may know him best from Fun with Dick and Jane, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and the 2011 The Muppets movie. He was also heavily involved with Storks, which makes a lot of sense.
Man, the stars must've aligned just right.
Sales I think has dropped since the opening weekend, though . It'll at least break even, but I don't know if it'll be considered a success.
Holy shit I just realized Captain Underpants was directed by David Soren, the same guy who made his directorial debut with Turbo. Remember Turbo? Yeah, me neither. And Nicholas Stoller wrote the script--you may know him best from Fun with Dick and Jane, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and the 2011 The Muppets movie. He was also heavily involved with Storks, which makes a lot of sense.
Man, the stars must've aligned just right.
Sales I think has dropped since the opening weekend, though . It'll at least break even, but I don't know if it'll be considered a success.
You also got to remember that DC blew its Wonder Load all over on opening weekend. While CU has yet to open in certain regions, so it'll probably make some more money from those even if it isn't the success they were planing it out to be.
So - I went to see it after hearing all about it for the past few weeks.
I read the books back when I was younger and can still remember a lot of the details, so I was pretty happy to find that the creators really did their homework and inserted a lot of references to the books in the film - and they even had the Flip-O-Rama, which was great. On the other hand, there was some stuff that really didn't jibe with the feel of the books and felt kind of out of place.
In this regard it's probably like the last adaptation DreamWorks did, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, which also had stuff direct from the cartoon that showed they did their homework alongside stuff that would have been out of place in the original (or any Jay Ward show, really).
This doesn't mean I hated it, though. I liked it quite a bit, though I do wish they had included the gym teacher joke that was in all of George and Harold's comics, and the silly name chart from book four (given that they had Professor Poopypants in it). Given the circumstances, people and companies involved in making it it is entirely what I expected it to be.
The most it inspired out of me, however, was to go back and reread the books - if I can only find them...
(Oh, yes, and the previews pretty much told me that my general break with modern animation and any of its trends, cinematic or televisual, was a good thing. Blue Sky's doing a film version of Ferdinand the Bull. Can it be better in 90 minutes than what Disney managed to do in 8 minutes almost 80 years ago? Somehow I doubt it.)
They didn't have the namechart but I remember someone mentioned that George's name should be Fluffy and Harold's Cheeseball, which is a direct reference to that.
. It'll at least break even, but I don't know if it'll be considered a success.
