SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Mathster The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

mwcrunner This is a kids movie that I have never seen before and I remember a friend of mine owning this movie once. This movie tells about one of the oldest kids TV characters ever. Pee-Wee Herman. It starts with Pee-Wee getting ready for a beautiful day and then he runs into his old enemy Francis who offers to buy his bike, but Pee-Wee refuses the offer and Francis comes up with a plan to get Pee-Wees bike. Pee-Wee Herman parks his bike on a clown statue and buys some stuff from a magic store and buys a new horn for his bike at the bikorama. Then when he went back to his bike, it was gone. Dun Dun Duunnnn! He then tries to find out who's responsible for stealing it and the first suspect was Francis and Francis lies about himself stealing his bike cause he did steal it and sold it to some thug. Pee-Wee goes to see a fortune teller and she tells him that his bike is in this place in Texas and he goes there by hitching a ride with a convicted felon named Mickey. Then they both drive off a cliff and then Mickey drives off without Pee-Wee and then Pee-Wee wanders off by himself in the dark down the road until a truck driver by the name of Large Marge picks him up. She tells Pee-Wee the story of a truck driver who died 10 years before this films release and then drops him off at a bar and he tells them that Large Marge sent him and they all gasped. For you see Large Marge was the truck driver that died 10 years ago and she was a ghost. Then he goes to a prehistoric museum and spends the night with this girl named Simone and she tells him that she wants to go to Paris but her boyfriend who was a tall fat man wouldn't let her. He then chases Pee-Wee with a big bone and then Pee-Wee hitches a ride with a homeless man who kept singing folk songs and then goes riding on a bull and then goes into a bar with a motorcycle gang in it and he does a dance for them after he accidentally knocks over their motorcycles. Pee-Wee then gets into a motorcycle wreck and goes to a hospital and has a bad dream with doctor clowns and Francis dressed as the devil and burning his bike in a cauldron of lava and when he wakes up he sees on television that his bike was sold to a snobby child star in Hollywood California and goes to get it and then gets into a wild chase from Hollywood security and then sees a pet store that's on fire and rescues the pets inside and then he's taken back to Warner Bros. studios and his story gets turned into a movie. Wow what a coincidence. lol A movie with the same title that's in this lol. Pee-Wee watches the movie with all the friends he came across too and Francis gets launched away from Pee-Wee's bike. lol Also there's a stop motion animation scene where this tyrannosaurs rex eats his bike. Also Pee-Wee gets a girlfriend in this. Her name is Dottie and she's played by the same voice actress who did the voice of Tommy Pickles in Rugrats and Powerpuff Girl Buttercup. All in all this movie may contain scenes that kids might find a little frightening for them, but those scenes don't scare me. I just laugh when I see them. lol. This is a good movie that came out the same year that Back to the Future came out anyway and I could tell that this movie tells the future of Tim Burton's career when he would make the Nightmare Before Christmas cause there are Halloween decorations in Pee-Wee's house.

mark.waltz Somebody has stolen Pee Wee's bike, and he must get it back. Like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, this isn't just any bike. It's his prize possession. No, it doesn't float or fly, but it might as well in his mind. An obnoxious, spoiled rich kid (just as child-like as Pee Wee, but not in a good way) covets the bike, but Pee Wee won't part for it for all the money in the world. When it all of a sudden vanishes, Pee Wee becomes desperate and that is where his adventure begins.The music of Danny Elfman becomes practically a supporting character as Pee Wee goes on the road, hitchhiking and meeting all sorts of strange characters along the way. It all ends up in Hollywood where everything comes together, turning kiwi into a celebrity of this. But in this situation comedy, it's the individual sequences that stand out, and boy, are some of them unforgettable! Of course, the most famous is his meeting up with grim woman truck driver Large Marge, played with joyous dark wit by Alice Nunn. Future "Saturday Night Live" star Jan Hooks is hysterical as a tour guide in the Alamo.Also popping in is none other than Elvira, appearing as a rather tough biker chick. Pee Wee gets to save his butt by doing the big shoe dance. An escaped convict nearly makes Pee Wee his bride, a truck stop dinosaur comes to life, and heroic Pee Wee shows his love for caged animals in a burning pet store. Practically ruining a Hollywood studio, Pee Wee shows that underdog can be the hero, and most especially that bullies never win.This all comes from the mind of the very inventive Pemberton, here making his feature film debut and what an opening sequence he creates with kiwis start of the day in his very extraordinary kitchen. Salesman score becomes almost the march of the bicycles, and long after this movie is over, you may be humming that music in your head. Of course at this time, Pee-wee Herman was the star of his own television show and while he only had infrequent appearances in films afterwards, his feature film debut would go on to become one of the great comedy classics of the 1980s. It is one that you can continuously watch over and over again and always find something to laugh with.

Leofwine_draca Tim Burton's directorial movie debut is a film for acquired tastes. I remember seeing it on television when I was around 5 years old in the 1980s and thinking it was very funny; time hasn't been kind to it since then, however. Pee-wee Herman feels like an American version of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, although nowhere near as funny.Indeed, Paul Reubens gives such an over-the-top performance of constant mannerisms and tics - not to mention THAT laugh - that he becomes irritating after about, oh I don't know, five minutes. The resultant film, which follows a journey narrative as he goes on a nationwide hunt for his stolen bicycle, is therefore tiresome. For most of the running time I kept thinking about the various run-ins with the law that Reubens has had since, and for some reason I found THAT funnier than the supposed humour here.PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE isn't a complete mess. Burton's direction feels assured and confident even at this early stage of his career and he certainly puts in a lot more effort here than he did in something like the CGI monstrosity that was ALICE IN WONDERLAND. There are also a handful of funny moments along the way, like the bar dance, although my favourite moment is the excellent homage to the Japanese Godzilla series. A shame the rest of the movie couldn't have followed suit.

gavin6942 When eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the United States on the adventure of his life.While this is Tim Burton's first feature film, it does not have the dark tones he was later known for. But it does have the elaborate inventions he is sometimes associated with. Reubens and Phil Hartman wrote in the script that "a machine makes breakfast", but it was Burton's crew that really made it something memorable. (Reubens was the one who hand-picked Burton, narrowing the choice down from 100 options. He actually went against the studio's choice, who remains nameless.)But not only did this film launch Burton's wildly successful career, it also launched the career of Danny Elfman. Elfman had already been in music as part of Oingo Boingo, but had not yet transitioned to composing. After this film, he never looked back and is now among the most successful in the business. Besides his work with Burton, he is now known for the "Simpsons" theme, which is probably one of the best-known songs throughout the world. (As of 2014, he has four Oscar nominations but zero wins. Come on, Academy!) Heck, this film even launched the career of E. G. Daily, who plays Pee-Wee's sort-of girlfriend. She is now better known for "Rugrats" and "Powerpuff Girls", among others. This was also the same year she signed a recording contract. (She was later married to Rick Salomon, a man known for his relationships with Paris Hilton, Shannon Doherty and Pam Anderson.) The DVD commentary is very insightful, and we learn a bit more about Reubens and Hartman's background in the Groundlings, and how Pee-Wee sort of developed out of his rejection from "Saturday Night Live". In retrospect, it may have been the best rejection he could ever have wanted.