Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Blu-ray) PG
The story of a rebel and his bike.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 4, 2011
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Reubens, James Brolin, Morgan Fairchild, Judd Omen, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton & Diane Salinger | |
Performer: | Jan Hooks | |
Directed by | Tim Burton | |
Edited by | Billy Weber | |
Screenwriting by | Phil Hartman & Paul Reubens | |
Composition by | Danny Elfman | |
Cameo: | James Brolin, Morgan Fairchild, Jason Hervey & Twisted Sister | |
Produced by | Richard Gilbert Abramson & Robert Shapiro | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's a true original -- a comedy maverick that looks and feels like no other movie I know.
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Christian Science Monitor
You have been warned.
New York Times
Equally brilliant and, yes, life-affirming.
USA Today
Reubens always lets us feel superior to his creation, and when his character slips, as it does more than once in this first feature outing, his own condescension shows through.
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Chicago Reader
Fair warning: this movie could induce terminal boredom in adults and rot the minds of the young.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 7/10 --
Chiefly successful because of its commitment to an artistic ideal: make something that looks, talks, feels, and moves like a cartoon.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Children should love the film and adults will be dismayed by the light brushstrokes with which Paul Reubens (one of three credited screenwriters, but star-billed under his stage name, Pee-wee Herman) suggests touches of Buster Keaton and Eddie Cantor.
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Variety
Product Description:
The imaginative, hilarious comedy, PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, stars happy-go-lucky Pee-Wee Herman (aka comedian Paul Reubens.) Pee-Wee Herman is not an average little boy--he exists in a grown-up body, has a penchant for 1950s Retro memorabilia, and lives in a zany, make-believe world. He is on a mission to find his beloved red bicycle, which has been stolen, and on the way Pee-Wee has a series of cartoon-like adventures.
When a fortune teller instructs Pee-Wee to look for his bike in the basement of the Alamo, he takes her advice. Embarking on a kind of Hero's Journey, Pee-Wee comes into contact with characters even crazier than he is. One of the more memorable scenes comes after he starts up a touching friendship with a romantic waitress (Diane Salinger) and is chased by her boyfriend (Jon Harris) around a park of giant dinosaur models until he finds himself in an unfriendly biker bar where, in order to avoid being killed, he performs an impromptu dance to the old surfer tune "Tequila." With imaginative sets and dream sequences that use claymation and pixilated models, PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE is a side-splitting comedy that references almost every Hollywood genre, especially the perennial favorite Road Movie.
When a fortune teller instructs Pee-Wee to look for his bike in the basement of the Alamo, he takes her advice. Embarking on a kind of Hero's Journey, Pee-Wee comes into contact with characters even crazier than he is. One of the more memorable scenes comes after he starts up a touching friendship with a romantic waitress (Diane Salinger) and is chased by her boyfriend (Jon Harris) around a park of giant dinosaur models until he finds himself in an unfriendly biker bar where, in order to avoid being killed, he performs an impromptu dance to the old surfer tune "Tequila." With imaginative sets and dream sequences that use claymation and pixilated models, PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE is a side-splitting comedy that references almost every Hollywood genre, especially the perennial favorite Road Movie.
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- UPC: 883929198641
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