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"Baby, You're a Rich Man"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Beatles
A-side
"All You Need Is Love"
Released
7 July 1967
Format
7-inch record
Recorded
11 May 1967
Olympic Sound Studios, London
Genre
Psychedelic pop,[1] psychedelic rock[2]
Length
3:03
Label
Parlophone
Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)
George Martin
The Beatles singles chronology
"Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane"
(1967) Strawberry Fields ForeverPenny Lane1967 "All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man"
(1967) All You Need Is LoveBaby, You're a Rich Man1967 "Hello, Goodbye"
(1967) Hello, Goodbye1967
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and released as the B-side of the band's "All You Need Is Love" single in July 1967. The song was recorded and mixed at Olympic Sound Studios in London, making it the first of the Beatles' EMI recordings to be entirely created away from EMI Studios. The track features a monophonic keyboard instrument known as a clavioline, which Lennon played on its oboe setting, creating a sound that suggests an Indian shehnai. In its lyrical themes, the song addresses the "beautiful people" of the 1960s hippie movement and partly echoes the utopian message of "All You Need Is Love". The lyrics have also invited interpretation as a message to the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein.
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" peaked at number 34 on America's Billboard Hot 100 chart. A month after its release, George Harrison performed the song during his visit to Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco, during the height of the Summer of Love. The track also appeared on the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album and in a sequence in their 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. Although the song was not included on the soundtrack album for the latter film, a new mix of the track appeared on the expanded 1999 release, Yellow Submarine Songtrack. Among the varied reviews of the song, Billboard admired it as "an Eastern-flavored rocker with an infectious beat and an intricate lyric",[3] while Pitchfork Media has dismissed it as "a second-rate take on John Lennon's money-isn't-everything theme".[4] In 2010, Rolling Stone ranked "Baby, You're a Rich Man" at number 68 on its list of the "100 Greatest Beatles Songs".
Contents
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1 Background
2 Musical characteristics
3 Recording
4 Release
5 Critical reception
6 Remixes, further releases and cover versions
7 Personnel
8 Charts
9 Notes
10 References
11 Sources
12 External links
Background[edit]
That's a combination of two separate pieces ... put together and forced into one song. One half was all mine. [Sings] "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people, now that you know who you are, da da da da." Then Paul comes in with [sings] "Baby, you're a rich man," which was a lick he had around.[5]
– John Lennon, 1980
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" was the result of combining two unfinished songs written by Lennon and McCartney,[6] in a similar fashion to "A Day in the Life" and "I've Got a Feeling".[7][8] The working title, based on Lennon's verses, was "One of the Beautiful People", to which McCartney added the "Baby, you're a rich man" chorus.[9] In a 1980 interview, Lennon described it as "two separate pieces ... put together and forced into one song".[5]
During the 1960s, "beautiful people" was the term adopted by Californian hippies to refer to themselves.[10] It is thought that McCartney wrote his section of the song about the band's manager, Brian Epstein.[8] Lennon's lyrics are in the form of a question-and-answer exchange, similar to that used by him and McCartney in "With a Little Help from My Friends". Musicologist Walter Everett writes that the song "asks an unnamed Brian Epstein what it's like to be one of the 'beautiful people'"; Everett adds: "This appellation was used of both communal hippies and those who mingle with the most celebrated entertainers."[11] Another interpretation is that the "Beautiful People" verses were meant as a "tip of the hat" to Epstein for finally taking the psychedelic drug LSD. Lennon claimed, however, that the meaning of the song was that everybody is a rich man, saying, "The point was stop moaning. You're a rich man and we're all rich men ..."[12] George Harrison said that the message of the song was that all individuals are wealthy within themselves, regardless of material concerns.[13][nb 1] According to author and critic Ian MacDonald, Lennon was most likely inspired to write the verses after attending the first recognised coming together of Britain's "beautiful people" – an all-night festival known as the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, held at Alexandra Palace in north London on 29 April 1967.[15]
Musical characteristics[edit]
The song opens in what appears to be the key of G in Mixolydian mode, a G chord moving to ♭VII/I (Fadd9/G) on "now that you know who you are", all over a G pedal (sustained harmonic tone).[11][16] Soon, however, the song moves to the key of C major and becomes reminiscent of "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" with its use of non-Western sounding gamak melodies on the clavioline.[11] Musicologist Alan Pollack considers a notable feature in the chorus to be the bass move from C to G via a ♭III (B♭).[17]
Recording[edit]
The Beatles recorded the song at Olympic Sound Studios. According to author Mark Lewisohn, "Baby, You're a Rich Man" was "the first Beatles song to be recorded and mixed for record entirely outside of [EMI Studios]".[18]
The Beatles recorded "Baby, You're a Rich Man" during a six-hour session held at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes, south-west London, on 11 May 1967.[19] The session marked a rare example of the Beatles recording outside of EMI's facility at Abbey Road, after the band had briefly used Regent Sound in central London during the sessions for their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[20] The engineers assisting George Martin, the Beatles' producer, were Olympic manager Keith Grant and Eddie Kramer.[18] Mick Jagger, whose band the Rolling Stones regularly used the same studio,[21] also attended the session.[18]
The song was mixed (in mono) that same day. The music featured an unusual oboe-like sound reminiscent of an Indian shehnai,[22] which was created with a clavioline[23] (an early forerunner of the synthesizer being a three-octave monophonic keyboard).[18] In addition, "spin-echo", a feed back delay effect, was used to fill from the end of one line of the verse to the start of the next.[24] In its doubling of the vocal line, Harrison's lead guitar part mirrors the role of a sarangi in an Indian khyal vocal piece,[25] an effect that Harrison first used on Lennon's song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".[26][27]
Following the completion of Sgt. Pepper in late April 1967, the Beatles' recording sessions for the remainder of that year have been dismissed as uninspired by the majority of commentators.[28][nb 2] Kramer contests this view, however; he says of the Beatles' playing during the session for "Baby, You're a Rich Man": "The energy level was so intense … that you were riding wave upon wave of amazing creativity. It was like watching a well-oiled machine. Just incredible."[28] According to another Olympic staff engineer, Grant and Kramer were highly complimentary of Lennon as a vocalist and "couldn't believe anyone could sing that well".[18] Having enjoyed the experience of working at Olympic Sound, the Beatles returned to Barnes on 14 June[31] to record the basic track for "All You Need Is Love".[32][33]
During the session for "Baby, You're a Rich Man", Lennon changed a line in the chorus to "Baby, you're a rich fag jew".[13] According to author Bob Spitz, this was either a joke at the expense of Epstein or a provocation in reaction to the band's former moptop image.[34] Spitz writes that the session tapes also reveal Lennon improvising similarly "wicked" remarks about McCartney, Ringo Starr and Jagger.[35][nb 3]
Release[edit]
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" was initially submitted for inclusion in the Beatles' upcoming animated film, Yellow Submarine.[37][18] While the song was used in the film, its initial release was as the B-side of "All You Need Is Love",[38] which the Beatles performed on the Our World satellite broadcast on 25 June 1967[39] and then rush-released as a single.[40][41] The release took place on 7 July in the United Kingdom and on 17 July in the United States.[42]
Peace symbol drawn on a walkway at Hippie Hill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Harrison busked the song at the hill during his visit to Haight-Ashbury in August 1967.
Further to Sgt. Pepper, which was issued in June 1967, the single provided a soundtrack to that year's Summer of Love.[37][43] On 7 August, Harrison and a small entourage visited the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco[44] to experience the atmosphere in the self-styled centre of the counterculture's hippie movement.[45][46] When handed an acoustic guitar in Golden Gate Park,[47] Harrison briefly performed "Baby, You're a Rich Man",[48] leading a crowd around in a manner that press reports likened to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.[37][49][nb 4]
Later that year, contrary to the Beatles' wishes, "Baby You're a Rich Man" and other tracks from their 1967 singles were included on the US album Magical Mystery Tour, available in both mono and 'mock stereo' formats.[55] While the song featured in the 1968 film Yellow Submarine, it was not included on the accompanying soundtrack album.[18] The sequence for "Baby, You're a Rich Man" appears towards the end of the film, when Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band have been released from the paralysis initiated by the Blue Meanies' hatred of music.[35] Later editions of the US single include a voice saying "Seven" or "Eleven" before the song starts.[56]
Critical reception[edit]
Writing in the NME in July 1967, Derek Johnson recognised the song's "modern" qualities, relative to the sing-along style of the A-side. He highlighted Lennon's falsetto singing, the recording's "Oriental instrumentation and … unusual shuffle beat, emphasised by handclaps", and concluded: "The whole effect is startling and packed with interest from the word go."[57][58] Billboard's reviewer described it as "an Eastern-flavored rocker with an infectious beat and an intricate lyric".[3] In one of the first cultural essays to acknowledge the Beatles' impact on American culture in a meaningful way, for the journal Partisan Review,[59] Richard Poirier cited both sides of the single as a "particularly brilliant example" of how contemporary British rock bands had "restor[ed] to good standing ... the simplicities that have frightened us into irony and the search for irony".[60] He described the musical backing on "Baby, You're a Rich Man" as "bursts of sitar music and the clip-clopping of Indian song", which combined to "operate in the manner of classical allusion in Pope", and he admired the lyrics' satirical quality as superior to Lennon's Lear-inspired poetry writing.[61][nb 5]
Nobody thought that Baby You're A Rich Man was about money. And how did it feel to be one of the beautiful people? When we listened to The Beatles, we all were … This music was nothing if not inclusive.[64]
– Music critic Charles Shaar Murray, 2002
In his assessment of the track, Ian MacDonald welcomes the use of clavioline, saying that the instrument evokes "a beguiling joss-stick exoticism", and he praises Starr's drumming as the equal of his performance on the song "Rain".[65] MacDonald bemoans the lack of focus evident in this and other Beatles recordings from the immediate post-Sgt. Pepper period, however; he says that, while "Baby, You're a Rich Man" demonstrates the band's command of musical "feel" and "black-white acid-dance fusion" a year ahead of the Rolling Stones, McCartney's choruses are weak and, overall, the song is devoid of any "well-crafted music".[66]
Writing for Mojo in 2003, Martin O'Gorman paired "Baby, You're a Rich Man" with Harrison "It's All Too Much" as two of the Beatles' "most sonically intriguing, but unfocused tracks".[67] In a 2009 review of Magical Mystery Tour, Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork Media dismissed the song as "a second-rate take on John Lennon's money-isn't-everything theme from the considerably stronger 'And Your Bird Can Sing'". He added that it was "the one lesser moment on an otherwise massively rewarding compilation".[4] Dan Caffrey of Consequence of Sound writes that, while it lacks the wholly universal scope of other songs by the band, "it's a nice little Lennon morality ditty on the perils of materialism with some innovative work with the clavioline from Lennon."[68] In 2010, "Baby, You're a Rich Man" was ranked at number 68 in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest Beatles songs.[12] The magazine's editors wrote: "Lennon's deeply stoned delivery and abstract questions about 'the beautiful people' captured the playfully spaced-out mood of the summer of 1967 – a spirit the Beatles were more tapped into than anyone."[69]
Remixes, further releases and cover versions[edit]
For a 1971 German release of the Magical Mystery Tour album, George Martin and recording engineer Geoff Emerick created the first true stereo mix of the song; unable to recreate the spin-echo effect that had been introduced at the mixing stage of the original recording, they simply omitted it.[24] The stereo mix fades out approximately eight seconds earlier than the mono version. When standardising the Beatles' catalogue for worldwide CD release in 1987, the (1971 stereo) Magical Mystery Tour album was included with the otherwise British album line-up.[70]
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" was mixed in stereo for a second time for the 1999 DVD release of the Yellow Submarine film and the accompanying Yellow Submarine Songtrack album.[71] Portions of Lennon's clavioline part appear in the Love version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", released in 2006.[72] In 2009, remastered stereo (per 1971) and mono (per 1967) Magical Mystery Tour album CDs were released.[73]
The song plays at the end of The Social Network, a 2010 film directed by David Fincher about the rise of Facebook.[35] P.M. Dawn used a sample of the Beatles' recording in their song "The Beautiful" from the 1991 album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience.[35]
The Fat Boys perform "Baby, You're a Rich Man" in the 1987 film Disorderlies. Their version appeared as the opening track on the Disorderlies soundtrack album. A cover version by Company of Strangers appeared on the band's self-titled 1992 album and peaked at number 118 in Australia when issued as a single. The song has also been covered by Kula Shaker, the Presidents of the United States of America[9] and Umphrey's McGee.[74]
Personnel[edit]
According to Mark Lewisohn[18] and Ian MacDonald:[75]
The Beatles
John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal, piano, clavioline
Paul McCartney – backing vocals, bass, piano
George Harrison – backing vocals, lead guitar,[22] handclaps
Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine, maracas, handclaps
Additional personnel
Eddie Kramer – vibraphone
Mick Jagger – backing vocals[nb 6]
George Martin – producer
Keith Grant – engineer
Charts[edit]
Chart (1967)
Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[77] 34
US Cash Box Top 100[78] 60
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Speaking about the song in 1987, Harrison said that, given the Beatles' influence during the 1960s, "the idea was to show that we, being rich and famous and having all these experiences, had realized that there was a greater thing to be got out of life – and what's the point of having that on your own? You want all your friends and everyone else to do it, too."[14]
Jump up ^ According to the group's recording historian, Mark Lewisohn, their efforts "display a startling lack of cohesion and enthusiasm",[29] while MacDonald cites the band members' drug intake and over-reliance on random events for inspiration.[30]
Jump up ^ In a feature article on the clavioline, Gordon Reid of Sound on Sound magazine pairs "Baby, You're a Rich Man" with the Tornados' 1962 hit "Telstar" as the two seminal pop recordings made with the instrument. He says that, according to one report from the session, Lennon created the trill sound "by rolling an orange up and down the keyboard" of the clavioline.[36]
Jump up ^ Although the visit was viewed as the Beatles' endorsement of a youth movement that they had helped to inspire,[47] Harrison was disappointed at how Haight-Ashbury represented a haven for dropouts and drug addicts, rather than a community looking to explore the possibility of enlightenment that LSD presented.[46] On his return to London, he shared this disillusionment with Lennon,[50] after which the pair became spokesmen for Transcendental Meditation[51][52] and the Beatles publicly disavowed LSD.[53][54]
Jump up ^ According to author Jonathan Bellman, Poirier's comments also had an adverse effect on the public's perception of Transcendental Meditation, which became inadvertently linked with rock music, the sitar and LSD.[62] Poirier said that whereas the Beatles' "sitar music" on Sgt. Pepper had represented India in the form of the Bhagavad Gita, on "Baby, You're a Rich Man" it evoked "another India, of fabulous riches, the India of the British and their Maharajahs, a place for exotic travel, but also for josh sticks and the otherworldliness of 'the trip'".[63]
Jump up ^ Jagger's name appears on a session tape box,[76] possibly indicating that he provided backing vocals near the end of the song.[18][75]
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External links[edit]
Full lyrics for the song at the Beatles' official website
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Side two
"Hello, Goodbye"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
"Penny Lane"
"Baby, You're a Rich Man"
"All You Need Is Love"
Outtakes
"All Together Now"
"It's All Too Much"
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1964
"Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That"
"I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman"
1965
"Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is"
"Help!" / "I'm Down"
"We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper"
1966
"Paperback Writer" / "Rain"
"Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby"
1967
"Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever"
"All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man"
"Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus"
1968
"Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light"
"Hey Jude" / "Revolution"
1969
"Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down"
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe"
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1970
"Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
1978
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1982
"The Beatles Movie Medley" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
1995
"Free as a Bird" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"
1996
"Real Love" / "Baby's in Black"
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1962
"My Bonnie" / "The Saints"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy"
1964
"Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today"
1976
"Yesterday" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Twist and Shout"
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
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Captain Underpants:
The First Epic Movie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
David Soren
Produced by
Mireille Soria
Mark Swift
Screenplay by
Nicholas Stoller
Based on
Captain Underpants
by Dav Pilkey
Starring
Kevin Hart
Ed Helms
Nick Kroll
Thomas Middleditch
Jordan Peele
Kristen Schaal
Music by
Theodore Shapiro
Edited by
Matthew Landon
Production
company
DreamWorks Animation[1]
Distributed by
20th Century Fox[1]
Release date
May 21, 2017 (2017-05-21) (Regency Village Theater)
June 2, 2017 (2017-06-02) (United States)
Running time
89 minutes[2]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$38 million[3]
Box office
$124.6 million[4]
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is a 2017 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on the children's novel series of the same name by Dav Pilkey. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation, and Mikros Image Montreal provided animation. 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 plot follows two imaginative elementary school pranksters named George Beard and Harold Hutchins (voiced by Hart and Middleditch) who hypnotize their mean-spirited principal, Mr. Krupp (voiced by Helms), into thinking he is Captain Underpants, a superhero who fights crime while wearing only underwear and a cape, and the main protagonist of George and Harold's comic books.
The film premiered on May 21, 2017, at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, and was released in the United States on June 2, 2017, in 3D and 2D. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $124.6 million worldwide against a budget of $38 million, making it the lowest-budgeted computer-animated feature of DreamWorks Animation's history.[5] This was the last DreamWorks Animation film distributed by 20th Century Fox, before Universal Pictures will take over distribution in 2019 with How to Train Your Dragon 3.
Contents
[hide]
1 Plot
2 Voice cast
3 Production
4 Music
4.1 Soundtrack
4.1.1 Track listing
4.2 Score
4.2.1 Track listing
5 Release
5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical response
5.3 Home media
5.4 Accolades
6 Notes
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
Plot[edit]
In the town of Piqua, Ohio, two fourth-grade friends and next-door neighbors named George Beard and Harold Hutchins are the pranksters at their school, Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. They excessively prank the cruel teachers, with many of these pranks directed at their "evil" principal, Benjamin "Benny" Krupp, putting the two at odds with him. The duo also create comic books about a superhero named Captain Underpants, a character who has superpowers and wears underwear and a cape. They sell these to their schoolmates through a comic company called Treehouse Comix Inc., located in their treehouse. George and Harold's pranks come to an apparent end after they tamper with a toilet invention, the Turbo Toilet 2000, made by the school's local snitch and intellectual, Melvin Sneedley. This causes Krupp to decide to separate the boys and annihilate their friendship.
To prevent this, George hypnotizes Krupp with a 3D Hypno Ring he received out of a cereal box. The boys see that Krupp bears an odd resemblance to Captain Underpants without his toupee and command him to be Captain Underpants. The boys soon learn the severity of their actions when "Captain Underpants" begins causing problems around Piqua. To prevent these issues, the boys take him to their treehouse, where they discover that they can turn Captain Underpants back into Krupp by splashing water on him and can turn him back into Captain Underpants by snapping their fingers. Believing that Krupp will continue with his plan to separate them, they decide to settle with Captain Underpants but insist that he be dressed up as Krupp under the pretense of a "secret identity," to which Captain Underpants agrees. His sudden personality change even manages to attract the attention (and affection) of the school's shy lunch lady, Edith.
Just when George and Harold believe that their troubles have ended, Jerome Horwitz Elementary School is visited by an odd, German-accented scientist named Professor Pippy P. Poopypants, or as he calls himself, Professor P. Captain Underpants (disguised as Krupp) hires him to be a new teacher, but George and Harold are suspicious of him. As it turns out, Poopypants is seeking to get rid of laughter altogether due to the fact that people have made fun of his name for years. He recruits Melvin to help him, as his brain is incapable of having fun.
After Krupp finally separates the boys from a school carnival accident by Captain Underpants, Professor Poopypants tries to take over the town with a giant version of the Turbo Toilet 2000, fueled by the school cafeteria's rotten leftovers left out by Edith and uses Melvin's brain to turn the children into glum, humorless zombies. Captain Underpants tries to stop the villain, but due to having no actual superpowers, is effortlessly defeated and thrown into the toilet. George and Harold are captured and nearly turned into zombies, but are able to escape when their laughter damages the Turbo Toilet 2000's computer, restoring the children back to normal. Upon consuming the mutated leftovers, Captain Underpants acquires superpowers and, with George and Harold's help, defeats and shrinks Poopypants, though he escapes shortly thereafter.
Knowing that they can't control Captain Underpants, George and Harold destroy the Hypno Ring to permanently change him back into Krupp. Feeling that Krupp would be nicer if he had friends, the boys set him and lovesick Edith up on a date, thus making Krupp have a change of heart, returns the comics he took away from George and Harold, and even admits their comics are funny. However, the toxic waste from the Turbo Toilet 2000 transforms all the toilets into vicious monsters which attack the restaurant at which Mr. Krupp and Edith are dining. Upon snapping his fingers (accidentally), Mr. Krupp once again becomes Captain Underpants, carrying George and Harold away to help him fight them, much to Edith's surprise and admiration.
In a mid-credits scene, George and Harold realize that the secretary, who they put on the phone before by faking a contest with a cash prize of $2 billion, has been on the phone for the entire film, so they shut off the call, make the secretary angry, and make a new comic based on her reaction.
Voice cast[edit]
Kevin Hart as George Beard, a fourth grade student. He is Harold's best friend and writes stories for the comics he and Harold make.[6][7]
Thomas Middleditch as Harold Hutchins, a fourth grade student. He is George's best friend and illustrates the comics he and George make.[6]
Ed Helms as Mr. Benjamin "Benny" Krupp / Captain Underpants, the mean-spirited principal of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, who is hypnotized into becoming the superhero created by George and Harold.[6]
Nick Kroll as Professor Pee-Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants, Esq., a scientist angered after being constantly made fun of and not taken seriously for his name, who decides to take over the world to get rid of all laughter and destroy Captain Underpants.[6]
Jordan Peele as Melvin Sneedly, George and Harold's nemesis, a child prodigy inventor; he becomes Prof. Poopypants' unwitting sidekick.[6]
Kristen Schaal as Edith, the shy school lunch lady and the love interest of Mr. Krupp.[7]
Dee Dee Rescher as Ms. Tara Ribble, the 4th grade teacher (and George's new teacher when Mr. Krupp separates the boys).
Brian Posehn as Mr. Rected, the guidance counselor (and Harold's new teacher when Mr. Krupp separates the boys).
Mel Rodriguez as Mr. Morty Fyde, the science teacher who gets fired by Krupp and is replaced by Professor Poopypants.
David Soren as Tommy, a boy who is seen frequently throughout the movie climbing into his own locker and shutting the locker door behind him.
Susan Fitzker as Mrs. Dayken, George and Harold's kindergarten teacher and unintentionally made them laugh by mentioning Uranus
Lynnanne Zager as Mrs. Beard
Tiffany Lauren Bennicke as Sad Girl
James Ryan as Mime
Leslie David Baker as Officer McPiggly
Sugar Lyn Beard as Goodie Two-Shoes Girl
Lesley Nicol as Nobel Moderator
Chris Miller as Nobel Audience Member
Coco Soren as Balloon Girl
Production[edit]
DreamWorks' interest in the film rights to the Captain Underpants series dates back to when the first installment was published in 1997, but creator Dav Pilkey did not want to sell them. Early pitches for an adaptation included video games, animated and live-action films, an animated series, and a live-action series. To persuade him, DreamWorks gave Pilkey a tour around the studio with everyone wearing underpants over their actual pants, which made him laugh.[8] In October 2011, his representatives indicated Pilkey was ready, and DreamWorks Animation won the rights in an auction.[9] In October 2013, Rob Letterman was announced as director and Nicholas Stoller as scriptwriter.[10] The two had previously worked together on the film Gulliver's Travels. In January 2014, the cast was announced. Ed Helms joined as Mr. Krupp a.k.a. Captain Underpants, Kevin Hart as George Beard, Thomas Middleditch as Harold Hutchins, Nick Kroll as the "insidious villain" Professor Poopypants, and Jordan Peele as George and Harold's "nerdy nemesis" Melvin Sneedly.[6]
In 2014, DreamWorks Animation announced a January 2017 release date.[11] Following DreamWorks Animation's reorganization in early 2015, the studio announced that the film would be produced outside of the studio's pipeline at a significantly lower cost.[12] It was instead animated at Mikros Image in Montreal, Canada, and therefore looks identical to Pilkey's artwork, as well as differently than most of DWA's films.[13] A month later, Letterman left the project but came back as an executive producer, and David Soren, the director of Turbo, entered talks to direct the film.[14] During production, Pilkey got to work closely with Soren. He was relieved that Soren was directing since he was a fan of Turbo. In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Pilkey said: "Once I met David, it was like a huge load fell off my back; I was like, 'I don't even have to think about this anymore. Just send me a couple of tickets to the premiere.'"[8] Commenting back, Soren said, "In a way, the controversy over the books ended up being liberating for the film. Normally on an animated movie you're trying to appeal to every possible demographic, and often that results in your content being watered down a little bit. Obviously we hope we get as wide of an audience as possible. But it's likely that if people have issues with the books they may have issues with the movie too, and we didn't feel like we needed to waste a lot of time trying to rope them in. It allowed us to make the purest version of the movie."[8] Although it is a CG-animated feature, the film includes scenes that are traditionally animated, flash animated, a short cutout animation segment, and a sock puppet sequence created by Screen Novelties.
Music[edit]
Soundtrack[edit]
"Weird Al" Yankovic wrote and performed the theme song for the film, which was featured in a lyric video. It currently stands at over 8 million views (as of October 7).[15] Andy Grammer wrote another original song for the film, titled "A Friend Like You".[16] The film also features music from Adam Lambert, Cold War Kids member Nathan Willett, and Lil Yachty.[16] An 11-track soundtrack album was released digitally on June 2, 2017, by Virgin Records.[17]
Track listing[edit]
No.
Title
Artist
Length
1. "Captain Underpants Theme Song" "Weird Al" Yankovic and Ed Helms 2:14
2. "A Friend Like You" Andy Grammer 3:40
3. "Saturday (cast version)" Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch 0:48
4. "Think" Adam Lambert 2:59
5. "1812 Ofarture" The Students of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School 1:08
6. "Hallelujah" Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms 0:39
7. "Oh Yeah[Note 1]" Lil Yachty 2:51
8. "Saturday" Nathan Willett 3:29
9. "Comic Book Opening" Theodore Shapiro 1:54
10. "Saving the Day" Theodore Shapiro 7:22
11. "The Prank for Good" Theodore Shapiro 5:38
Total length: 32:42
Score[edit]
The film score was composed by Theodore Shapiro.[16] A soundtrack for the score of the film was released on June 9. It features 24 pieces of music, and an exclusive digital booklet on iTunes. Three of the scores are also available on the soundtrack (those being "Comic Book Opening", "Saving the Day", and "The Prank for Good").
Track listing[edit]
All tracks written by Theodore Shapiro.
No.
Title
Length
2. "Treehouse" 1:03
3. "Bromance Origin Story" 1:58
4. "Annihilate the Friendship" 2:13
5. "Tuna Casserole" 0:59
6. "Snooping" 1:47
7. "Power of the Hypno Ring" 1:57
8. "A Hero is Born" 4:14
9. "Mad Genius Inventor" 0:53
10. "Bringing Krupp Home" 2:20
11. "Two Blue Eyes" 2:10
12. "Brain of a Child" 1:54
13. "Hallelujah, His Name is Poopypants" 1:37
14. "The Nobel Prize" 3:02
15. "Anti-Humor Boy" 1:49
16. "Art Class Liberation" 1:57
17. "Carnival Conniptions" 2:17
18. "Separation Anxiety" 1:32
19. "Poopypants Has No Gas" 1:36
20. "A World Without Laughter" 2:53
21. "Flip-O-Rama!" 1:24
22. "Really Silly Names" 1:23
Total length: 55:44
Release[edit]
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie was previously scheduled to be released on March 10, 2017,[14] but in September 2015, The Boss Baby took over its date.[18] The film was then moved to June 2, 2017, and was released by 20th Century Fox.[19][20] Other territories such as Europe and Asia will receive the film between July and October 2017. It premiered on May 21, 2017, at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles.[21]
Box office[edit]
As of November 14, 2017[update], Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie has grossed $73.9 million in the United States and Canada and $50.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $124.6 million.[4]
In North America, the film was released alongside Wonder Woman, and was projected to gross around $20 million from 3,434 theaters in its opening weekend.[22] It made $8 million on its first day and $23.9 million in its opening weekend, finishing second at the box office, behind Wonder Woman ($103.3 million).[23][24] The film would go on to gross $12.2 million in its second weekend, $7.2 million in its third and $4.3 million in its fourth.[25]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 86% based on 113 reviews and an average rating of 6.9/10. 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."[26] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[27] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[23]
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.'"[28]
Home media[edit]
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.[29]
Accolades[edit]
Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2017[30] Best Original Song - Animated Film Captain Underpants Theme Song for "Weird Al" Yankovic Pending
Best Original Score - Animated Film Theodore Shapiro
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Half-cover of the Yello song of the same name
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie". AMC Theatres. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Box Office Preview: 'Wonder Woman' Readies for $95M-Plus U.S. Debut". The Hollywood Reporter. June 1, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
Jump up ^ Amidi, Amid (June 2, 2017). "'Captain Underpants' Could Dramatically Alter The U.S. Feature Animation Industry". Cartoon Brew. Cartoon Brew, LLC. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f DreamWorks Animation (January 21, 2014). "Captain Underpants Saves The Day By Recruiting Top Comedy Talent To Voice New DreamWorks Animation Film" (Press release). PR Newswire. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b Snetiker, Marc (June 28, 2016). "Captain Underpants movie recruits Kristen Schaal". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b c Josh Rottenberg (June 1, 2017). "Why Captain Underpants author Dav Pilkey played hard to get with Hollywood". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
Jump up ^ Mike Flemming, Jr (October 19, 2011). "DreamWorks Animation Wins Auction For 'Captain Underpants' Feature Film Rights". Deadline. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
Jump up ^ Kit, Borys (October 25, 2013). "Rob Letterman to Direct 'Captain Underpants' for DWA (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
Jump up ^ "DreamWorks Animation Release Dates Include Madagascar 4". Collider.com. June 12, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
Jump up ^ Lieberman, David (January 22, 2015). "DreamWorks Animation Restructuring To Cut 500 Jobs With $290M Charge". Deadline.com. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
Jump up ^ Graser, Marc (January 22, 2015). "Jeffrey Katzenberg on DWA's Cutbacks: '3 Films a Year Was Too Ambitious". Variety. Retrieved September 20, 2015. "Trolls," set for a 2016 release, will be the first film to be made with the $120 million budget.
^ Jump up to: a b Fleming Jr., Mike (February 26, 2015). "Rob Letterman Doffs 'Captain Underpants'; 'Turbo's David Soren Being Fitted For DWA Pic". Deadline. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
Jump up ^ Romano, Nick (May 12, 2017). "Tra la la! Weird Al Yankovic sings Captain Underpants theme in lyric video". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c Tom, Lauren (May 12, 2017). "Captain Underpants' Movie Scores Epic Soundtrack With 'Weird Al', Lil Yachty & More". Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
Jump up ^ "'Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie' Soundtrack Details". Film Music Reporter. May 11, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
Jump up ^ McClintock, Pamela (September 18, 2015). "Hugh Jackman's 'Greatest Showman on Earth' Pushed a Year to Christmas 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Theatrical Movie Schedule Changes and Additions". Box Office Mojo. March 27, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
Jump up ^ Coggan, Devan (December 24, 2016). "Captain Underpants leaps to the big screen in exclusive first look". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
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Further reading[edit]
Zahed, Ramin (2017), The Art of Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie (1st ed.), Titan Books, ISBN 978-1785652905
External links[edit]
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