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PACKAGE TWO
CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE
SUITABLE FOR: KEY STAGES 1 & 2 AREAS OF LEARNING: LANGUAGE & LITERACY / PDMU / WAU / CITIZENSHIP THEMES: CHILDHOOD / GROWING UP / FRIENDSHIP USA.2017. Director: David Soren. Cast: Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms. Duration: 1hr.29mins. Cert: U Part of childhood is giggling under the duvet with a friend. Here we go again… Based on the children’s books by Dave Pilkey, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is the story of two friends who create an unlikely superhero in order to battle a super villain and save their classmates.
“Captures the spirit of being an eight-year-old boy about as well as any film ever made.”
“No synopsis can do justice to the sense of fun, or the ingenuity of the animation… This is the biggest surprise since The Lego Movie, inventive, imaginative, funny ha ha, with original animation that does not conform to the stereotype…”
Keith Watson, Slant Magazine
Angus Wolfe Murray, EyeForFilm 14