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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
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Former animator Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Batman, Mars Attacks!) made his feature directorial debut with this delightful comedy, coscripted by the late Phil Hartman (who also appears briefly as a reporter). Wisely, they keep the story simple so as to concentrate on the characters: Pee-wee's most prized possession, his shiny new bicycle, is stolen, and he sets off on an obsessive cross-country journey, determined to recover it. Pee-wee's awkward and childish attempts to be cool and mature ("I meant to do that!!") are hysterical, as when he tells his girlfriend (Elizabeth Daly):...
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| Pee-wee's Big Adventure Movie Review by Tammy (10/13/2007) |
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Wisely, they keep the story simple so as to concentrate on the characters: Pee-wee's most prized possession, his shiny new bicycle, is stolen, and he sets off on an obsessive cross-country journey, determined to recover it. Pee-wee's awkward and childish attempts to be cool and mature ("I meant to do that!!") are...
(complete Pee-wee's Big Adventure review by Tammy)
| Pee-wee's Big Adventure Movie Review by Thom (8/29/2007) |
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Upon any list of the biggest travesties of filmmaking, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure should be heavily considered. Not funny and simple to point of being too dull for dullards, PWBA is also responsible for launching the horrendous career of ego maniacal froo-froo art student Tim Burton, without which the film business would be...
(complete Pee-wee's Big Adventure review by Thom)
| Pee-wee's Big Adventure Movie Review by Jen (9/26/2006) |
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Maybe it's because I'm a baby of the eighties. Maybe it's because I have, as I have been told "strange taste and impossible standards". But I miss the simpler times when Tim Burton wasn't obsessed with eerie gothic culture, phil hartman was still alive, paul reubens didn't expose himself in public and kids movies were what...
(complete Pee-wee's Big Adventure review by Jen)
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