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What it’s about: The book is about two boys named George and Harold who are really good friends. They like to go in George’s tree house and write comic books about a superhero called Captain Underpants. One day, George and Harold play all kinds of tricks at a football game and they ruin the game. Mr Krupp, the mean principal at the school, finds out that it was George and Harold that caused all the trouble and he made a video of them doing everything. He makes them wash his car, bring home lots of homework, and cut his nails. George and Harold get a 3-D ring that can hypnotise anyone and they use it on Mr Krupp to turn him into a chicken, then a monkey, and finally, Captain Underpants. Mr Krupp takes all his clothes off except his underwear and uses the curtains as a cape. Captain Underpants runs away and stops some bank robbers from stealing money then he gets arrested, but the two boys help him escape. Then Captain Underpants gets mixed up with two robots who take him to Dr Diaper, an evil man-baby who wants to take over the world. Then the two boys shoot fake doggy doo-doo with their slingshot under Dr Diaper’s bum. Then there’s a fight …show more content…
But, I’m nothing like George and Harold. I like the part where they jump on the robots to kill them even more. I think that Mr Krupp is funny when he’s hypnotised but he’s like a villain when he’s not hypnotised. I like him better when he’s Captain Underpants. I think Dr Diaper is funny and a villain because he actually is a villain. He’s very mean because he wants to take over the world by using a machine to try to make meteroids fall on people that are