Captain Underpants 2: The Thrilling Sequel.

Captain Underpants 2: The Thrilling Sequel (2022) is a sequel to the film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017). It was directed by David Soren and Dav Pilkey

Synopsis

After the defeat of Professor Poopypants. Captain Underpants, George and Harold must stop the hungry Talking Toilets before they eat every human on Earth!

Production

After Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Dreamworks decided to work on a Captain Underpants Netflix show, a Dog Man movie and a sequel to Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.

Dreamworks' biggest fear was that the sequel would lose money, the first one made $125 million and while it was a success since it only had a $38 million dollar budget, it's still low compared to other box offices for other animated films, but they still wanted to give Captain Underpants 2 a shot. The film began production.

On November 5. 2019 a sequel was announced.

On February 2. 2020 a teaser poster was released, showing Captain Underpants, holding a large number two on a yellow background.

On May 6. 2021 a 20 second teaser was shown in many theatres, the teaser had the Talking Toilets attacking and eating people, when all of a sudden Captain Underpants flies thru a wall and punches many of the Toilets with George and Harold holding Captain Underpants' cape, it then zooms out and Captain Underpants flies and makes a symbol of the number two, while the words Captain Underpants and The Thrilling Sequel appear.

After these short teasers, a teaser-trailer was released on October 7. 2021, which featured one scene of Captain Underpants fighting numerous villains, before it cutting to Captain Underpants walking back, and seeing the all-new upgraded Turbo Toilet, with it now having self-consciousness.

On February 4. 2022 the official trailer was released, trailer 2 was released on April 10, and the final trailer was released on May 14.

Captain Underpants 2: The Thrilling Sequel was released on June 2. 2022, exactly 5 years after Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and on the 25th anniversary of Captain Underpants.

Marketing

The film had promotional support from Burger King, which released five toys in its kids meals.

A bunch of people dressed up in suits with underwear over their pants and went in groups to watch this film in cinemas, similar to the situation with Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). This didn't have nearly the same impact on the box office as it had on Minions: The Rise of Gru, but it still helped this movie.

In 2017, a line of Funko Pops for the movie Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) were released however only 2 were made, however this time for the sequel they made George and Harold, Mr. Krupp and the Talking Toilets, they also released a Captain Underpants Funko Pop toy, but it was just the 2017 one re-packaged.

A line of action figures were released by Mattel, which sold very well.

Many Build-Boards were put in New York and across the world to advertise the film.

Box Office

The film earned $189.4 million on a $42 million budget, the film was a box office success.

It earned $54 million on it's opening weekend, $33 million on it's second weekend, and $11 million on it's third weekend.

Reception

The film mostly received positive reviews from both critics and audiences.

The film has a 6.3/10 rating on IMDb, a 67% on Metacritic and an 85% and 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review stating:

"The sequel isn't better than the first, but it's still a very fun and enjoyable movie."

IGN gave it a 7/10 praising it's animation and it's story, but criticizing the movie's way too fast pace.

Variety gave the film a positive review stating:

"You can't hate a movie named Captain Underpants 2: The Thrilling Sequel"

The Hollywood reporter also gave the film a positive review saying:

"One of the only movies ever where fart jokes are actually funny."

Empire, however, gave the film a negative review stating:

"Everything wrong with modern kids animated movies in a hour and thirty-minute runtime."

Sequels

Dreamworks isn't sure weather to make a Captain Underpants 3 or not, Captain Underpants 2: The Thrilling Sequel was a success sure, but they weren't sure a sequel would continue the streak of the success that Captain Underpants 1 and 2 got.

Blu-Ray

The film released on Blu-ray on October 14 2022