Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights. Although in some ways it’s too much of a change of pace with much of the story’s focus on Mega Blissmas before the final ten minutes of the standard Christmas turnaround. Overall, it’s a pleasant distraction and for the most part a nice change of pace from the typical Christmas fare. It ends pretty much the way it was always going to despite plenty of sidetracks with robot fights and dinosaurs on fire for some reason. Only they realize that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be and the actual Christmas spirit is so much better and giving and togetherness and blah blah blah. Then they steal the genius kid’s time machine to go back to the first Christmas to make it a thing in the present day. The two main characters Harold and George want to make Christmas better, so they come up with a 9 year old boy’s idea of what would be the perfect xXx-treme Christmas complete with a Hulk Hogan-esque Jacked Santa. Dav Pilkey has written and illustrated numerous popular, award-winning books for children, including the Captain Underpants and Dumb Bunnies series. Together, Ricky and his Robot face the bullies, and save Squeakyville from a giant evil lizard monster. Like many Christmas movies the overall theme was pretty standard even if it was handled in a very Captain Underpants way. Until one day, he saves the life of a mighty robot. There was a little bit too much time spent on the running joke of Ham Nog although they were some of the funniest random bits. They all had quirks that felt like running gags that would be present in the series though only a couple of them were ones that were notable from the movie. The writing overall felt like it was an episode of a TV series as the side characters weren’t given any real set up or introduction. It helps break up the visual style and gives the fantasy sequences a very different feel to the rest of the movie. The majority is done in typical 2-D line-art style but some of the scenes are done in a more 3-D claymation style and/or puppeteering mixed with animation. Some of the best things about this is how some of those flashbacks and/or non-sequiturs are done in different animation styles. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - The Saturday Song: George (Kevin Hart) and Harold (Thomas Middleditch) celebrate their friendship and their weeken. As a 40-some minute movie it moves along at a pretty brisk pace with plenty of visual gags coming in alongside various non-sequiturs.
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