Captain Underpants 2: The Thrilling Sequel.

Captain Underpants 2: The Thrilling Sequel is a sequel to the film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. 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 $135 million and while it was a success since it only had a 35 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. Thankfully the film didn't suffer development hell and was released on June 2. 2022, exactly 5 years after Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.

Marketing

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

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 movies 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