Pee-Wee's Big Adventure PG
The story of a rebel and his bike.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 4, 2008
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Reubens, James Brolin, Morgan Fairchild, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger & Judd Omen | |
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:
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
Burton demonstrates his knack for building seemingly dynamic meta-worlds inside our own world, depicting Pee Wee's own journey as exciting, harrowing, and often times scary.
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Tim Burton's first (and best) movie...
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Reel Film Reviews
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" isn't a movie but a collection of found objects from the garbage heap of low culture...
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Washington Post
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: 3/5 --
It's a bold attempt to do something dazzlingly original, although some of the gags are spectacularly unfunny and Pee-wee's nervous prattling can become irritating.
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Radio Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
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: 883929004157
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