Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000

June 15, 2014
The famous superhero returns to fight another villain with all the trademark wit and humor the series is known for.Despite the title, Captain Underpants is bizarrely absent from most of this adventure. His school-age companions, George and Harold, maintain most of the spotlight. The creative chums fool around with time travel and several wacky inventions before coming upon the evil Turbo Toilet 2000, making its return for vengeance after sitting out a few of the previous books. When the good Captain shows up to save the day, he brings with him dynamic action and wordplay that meet the series' standards. The Captain Underpants saga maintains its charm even into this, the 11th volume. The epic is filled to the brim with sight gags, toilet humor, flip-o-ramas and anarchic glee. Holding all this nonsense together is the author's good-natured sense of harmless fun. The humor is never gross or over-the-top, just loud and innocuous. Adults may roll their eyes here and there, but youngsters will eat this up just as quickly as they devoured every other Underpants episode.Dizzyingly silly. (Humor. 8-10)

COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

August 1, 2014
Grades 3-5 What do you get when you mix toilet monster villains, pterodactyl hamster heroes, Super Diaper Baby comic strip interludes, and a glow-in-the-dark, time-traveling Robo-Squid suit? A Captain Underpants adventure about saving the planet from impending doom! In this engaging installment in the now nearly iconic series, the text directly addresses the reader ( Remember back in chapter 1? ), and young superhero fans can team up with George, Harold, and Captain Underpants (aka the hypnotized principal of their school), as well as guest illustrator, Timmy Swanson (age four) . . . and Nana Gertrude (age seventy-one), for the battle of the century. Now, as Pilkey asks, that wasn't confusing at all, was it? Good. We didn't think so. Captivating comic drawings with flip-book mechanisms, punny toilet jokes ( It's just a flush wound ), and action-packed adventures make this a sure winner for fans and newcomers alike. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With more than 70 million Underpants titles in print, this series only increases in worldwide popularity. Prepare for the stampede.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)