Captain Underpants – Der supertolle erste Film (2017)

Captain Underpants – Der supertolle erste Film: Directed by David Soren. With Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Thomas Middleditch. Two overly imaginative pranksters named George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking he’s a ridiculously enthusiastic, incredibly dimwitted superhero named Captain Underpants.

“From Knife in the Water and Rosemaryu0026#39;s Baby to Chinatown, Roman Polanski has shown a skill at the slowly distributed thriller, and especially with a dash of hard-core politics as in Chinatownu0026#39;s Los Angeles water intrigues. Now in The Ghost Writer, the acclaimed director recaptures that Hitchcock sense of inevitable evil slowly stalking the rich and famous while the little guy protagonist witnesses the underbelly of power.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEx-Prime Minister Andrew Lang (Pierce Brosnan) hires a ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) to finish an autobiography by the previous ghost writer, who mysteriously drowned. As unnamed ghost begins his work in a Marthau0026#39;s Vineyard hideaway of Lang, mayhem breaks out, for Lang is accused of sanctioning water boarding in the Iraq theater.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile it is apparent Langu0026#39;s personal life is deteriorating as well, the ghost pursues with the tenacity of Jake Gittes the mystery of how his predecessor died, gaining a few bruised bones but not a broken nose for being nosy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile the film has some clichéd situations, almost as if Polanski is trying to evoke u0026#39;70u0026#39;s thrillers in all their cheesiness, he has recruited an excellent cast. In addition to McGregor and Brosnan at their best, Tom Wilkinson as a suspicious Ivy League academic and a cameo by Eli Wallach as an old Vineyard denizen are so good that I wanted more of them. Polanski has always directed his actors well, but of course he is smart enough to hire them in the first place.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe stark; outdoor settings; the almost antiseptic interiors; the slowly suspenseful music; the car chases; the shower; and the suspicious ladies,especially the blond), are a few of the Hitchcock touches gracing the Ghost Writer. That Lang is unable to reside in only few countries of the world where he canu0026#39;t be extradited for crimes against humanity is a light reference to Polanskiu0026#39;s own exile. For that allusion, I applaud him and wonder how he can keep a sense of humor amidst his possible imprisonment on charges of statutory rape.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHowever, he is after all a certifiable auteur whose legacy will outlive any prison time.”