Plot summary
Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets
At demonstration speech day, George and Harold show off the "Squishy"; two ketchup packets under a toilet seat. But Melvin forces everyone to watch his demonstration, the "Combine-o-Tron 2000", which he uses his hamster Sulu and a robotic hamster body he built to show off. Melvin orders Sulu to do some tricks for the class, but the hamster's able to spank Melvin himself. After noticing the scene, George and Harold adopt Sulu, who happily joins the two. Meanwhile, Ms. Ribble uses a Squishy on an already grumpy Mr. Krupp, who believes that George and Harold are responsible. When Mr. Krupp finds them in the lunchroom, Melvin almost immediately tattles on the boys and Mr. Krupp sends them to detention, causing them to make a libelous Captain Underpants comic starring Melvin.
Having read the comic, Melvin angrily goes home and builds a super-powered robot to combine himself with using the Combine-O-Tron. However, Melvin sneezes at the last second from his allergy to cats and gets combined with the robot and boogers, turning him into the Bionic Booger Boy. Eventually, he even acquires his own drinking fountain. The cold and flu season begins, however and when the class visits a tissue factory, owner Snoddy offers free tissues, but Melvin becomes gigantic as a natural defense. George turns Mr. Krupp into Captain Underpants and the man saves his secretary, Miss Edith Anthrope. Her wet kisses turn him back and Melvin devours him, but Sulu defeats Melvin using large novelty items from warehouses.
George's suggestion, reversing the batteries in the Combine-o-Tron, surprisingly works, and only three robotic booger globs fly off. However, Mr. Krupp and Melvin's brains have accidentally switched bodies. While Melvin/Mr. Krupp boasts about the Combine-O-Tron saving the city, Mr. Krupp/Melvin tries to get the boys in detention. Suddenly, the globs come to life and smash the Combine-O-Tron.
Part 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers
The globs start chasing George, Harold, Sulu, Melvin and Mr Krupp. They reach a dead end, but where Sulu spits them out into outer space. After a number of incidents, George and Harold discover the body mix-up. Since it would take Melvin six months to build another machine, George suggests going back in time, which makes Melvin snap his fingers, causing Mr. Krupp to turn into Captain Underpants and fly away. George and Harold are forced to tell the secret and Melvin orders them to create a comic about him, before setting to build. The next day, Melvin is furious that the former mentioned depicts him as uncool, but soon explains to them that if the machine's used two days in a row, something will place the world in a catastrophe. He also gives them the "Forgetchamacallit 2000", a machine to erase one's short-term memory. As well as a decoy Combine-O-Tron 2000. George and Harold decide to travel two days back to get to Melvin's Combine-O-Tron 2000. They succeed, however, Miss Singerbrains steals the machines and takes them to the police station.
However, the boys end up in the Cretaceous period and get a Quetzalcoatlus, who they nickname "Crackers". The two go to when Singerbrains is driving to the police station. George convinces her she is dreaming because of "the dinosaur's presence", etc. Harold sends Crackers back, then they erase her memory, get the Combine-O-Tron and travel to the present. Meanwhile, Captain is helping two old ladies cross the street. He successfully rescues a cat from a tree at the same time, but accidentally leaves the ladies up there. They, and other victims of him, including Anthrope, form an angry mob. Melvin" finds Underpants and switches one another back.
In space, the boogers land on a spaceship, hanging on as it returns to Earth, before they start destroying the space center. Underpants goes off to help, but discovers that his powers were taken by "Big Melvin", who refuses to help unless George and Harold change the comic. Captain Underpants and the boys are cornered at a local store and starts throwing random items stacked outside. By chance, Carl is killed upon swallowing an orange. The other boogers become cautious, but Captain Underpants makes a deliberately annoying "Underpants Dance", making them climb up his chosen building, right into a well-placed orange-made Squishy.
Soon, "Big Melvin" lies to the Eyewitness News crew (including spanking Captain Underpants) while George and Harold sneak back to school, returning with the machines. Captain Underpants gets his powers back, then the crew and audience's memories are erased. The angry mob find Melvin (who no longer has superpowers) and chase him in retribution. When the boys return to their clubhouse, George finds out that Harold didn't really send Crackers back. Harold is keeping Crackers as another pet, which George decides she could stay in the present for just one night. But the next day, when George, Harold and Sulu are ready to take Crackers back where she belongs, the time machine malfunctions.
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is a 2017 American animated superhero comedy film based on Dav Pilkey's children's novel series Captain Underpants, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by David Soren from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, and stars the voices of Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, Nick Kroll, Jordan Peele, and Kristen Schaal. The film was released during the 20th anniversary of the Captain Underpants series. In the film, fourth-grade pranksters George and Harold hypnotize their humorless principal Mr. Krupp into thinking he is a superhero named Captain Underpants. The movie loosely adapts the first, second, fourth, and eleventh Captain Underpants books.
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