<P> On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87% based on 105 reviews, with an average rating of 7 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "With a tidy plot, clean animation, and humor that fits its source material snugly, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is entertainment that won't drive a wedge between family members ." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 69 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B +" on an A+ to F scale . </P> <P> Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three - and - a-half out of four stars . Although Seitz pointed out that the film is hampered by "a rushed, jumbled quality" and has "tiresome" features that he says are common to DreamWorks, such as "frenetic action scenes...and the use of workhorse pop songs", he emphasized that "(t) hey've approached this compendium of elemental slapstick and unabashed childishness with the reverence that the Coen brothers brought to No Country for Old Men ." He further added that the inclusion of the flip book interludes are the film's best parts, especially in having the pages accidentally be torn similar to the real books, stating that "(i) t's not often that a movie puts a spotlight on a mundane ritual in your own life that you never realized was profound and says,' You probably forgot about this, but I want you to remember it and savor it, because it meant something ."' </P> <P> Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie was released on Digital HD on August 29, 2017, and on DVD, Blu - ray and Ultra HD Blu - ray on September 12, 2017, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment . </P>

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