![]() The humor is smart and silly, qualities more closely linked than adult society likes to give out. Like the books, which regularly issue warnings to the viewers of something potentially distasteful ahead - perhaps a kind of trolling of the series’ critics - the cartoon keeps calling attention to the terms of its own construction, with lines like “We can’t actually show the collision because that’s not nice, but we can show you this big cloud of smoke and stuff drawn in an elaborate anime style - so cool,” and references to “the red tablecloth cleverly established earlier in the scene.” Nothing serves children better on the road to maturity - I say this as a one-time child fairly happy with how he turned out - than letting them know that the world is as absurd as they suspect it is, and that much of what has been constructed upon it is arbitrary and even stupid. (Backgrounds are not something Pilkey typically bothers with.) As in the books, every episode is divided into chapters and contains a “comic-book” portion, rendered in childlike scrawl and narrated manically - maniacally? - by Hastings himself. ![]() The bottom line? If your kids love the books and the movie, then they're sure to appreciate the laughs here as well.Overseen by Peter Hastings (“Animaniacs,” “Pinky and the Brain,” “Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness”), the show plays off some of the visual world-building of the movie, but is presented in a 2-D style more appropriate to Pilkey’s jaunty drawings, and more than usually reminiscent of classic cel animation, with bold outlines and bright, angular, askew backgrounds. Krupp/Captain Underpants is a good opening for discussions about respecting authority figures, and the animation style's exaggerated representation of negative body traits encourages reminders of respect for differences. But if you can see past that, there are some positive qualities in their friendship and their creativity. It's difficult to love Harold and George's inability to take anything seriously, and viewed through a real-world lens, their pranks have detention and grounding written all over them. But if you have the stomach for the gross-out stuff, then you're sure to enjoy the show's creative use of mixed media (sock and stick puppetry included) and clever humor that includes the characters addressing the audience directly at times. Once again, if this kind of humor isn't your cup of tea, then The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants episodes will feel like two-hour movies themselves. ![]() #CAPTIN UNDERPANTS SHOW SERIES#Know that the stories rely on some stereotypical physical characteristics (being overweight, elderly, bald, etc.) for laughs, and there's some name-calling, like "tattletale" and "loser."įlatulence, vomit, poop jokes, butt references, and underwear laughs sum up this series that's slightly less enthralling than the film that preceded it. Safe to say they never learn valuable (or realistic) lessons from their behavior, but they do have a lot of fun. The main characters are intentional pranksters who rely on mischief to interrupt class and school functions, causing adults much grief and angering their cranky principal, whom they then hypnotize to strip down to his undies, don a cape, and save the day as Captain Underpants. ![]() There's also vomiting, toxic slime, unsavory school lunch menus, and lots of other gross-out material at play. ![]() Bathroom humor is the name of the game here every variation of farts, poop, wedgies, briefs, and butts is mined for laughs. Parents need to know that The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is a Netflix series that follows the events of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, which was inspired by Dav Pilkey's popular books. ![]()
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