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| Title: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Director: Tim Burton Year: 1985 Rating: ***** |
Tim Burton's first feature-length movie is a perfect comedy since every part of PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE is like its very own separated vignette with a beginning, middle and end...
Beginning with a French bicycle-race dream sequence, introducing not only comedian/actor Paul Reuben's overly-optimistic, spastic man-child, but having him wake up in a prop-laden house that's more like a dream than a dream...
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| Paul Reubens in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
Since Pee-wee exists as a kind of wacky adolescent before all the distractions and responsibilities of adulthood (where only toys and meantime matter), his beloved supped-up bike being stolen leads to a frantic cross-country ADVENTURE where Reuben's flamboyant lead not only deals with every kind of eclectic character, but vice versa...
From a criminal on the lam to a truck-stop waitress at a dinosaur-novelty truck-stop to a train-riding hobo to the Warner Brothers lot, PEE-WEE weaves through various genres thanks to first-time auteur Tim Burton...
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| Paul Reubens in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
Providing an endless string of cinema homages, ranging from stylized noir to shocking horror to Hitchcock paranoia to James Bond espionage to stop-motion-monster to action-packed-chases, all enveloped within an epic road movie where a comic actor and creative director have never been so perfectly (and unpredictably) aligned...
Since Burton's magically gothic storybook aesthetic was brand new, it's like Pee-wee helped Burton create an anything-goes offbeat/eccentric style (alongside Oingo Boingo singer Danny Elfman's upbeat soundtrack) without a superfluous or unfunny filler moment along the way.
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| Paul Reubens in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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| Paul Reubens and Elizabeth Daily in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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| Paul Reubens in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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| Paul Reubens in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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| Mark Holton and Ralph Seymour in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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Paul Reubens in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE with Judd Omen
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Jon Harris in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE
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| Paul Reubens and Diane Salinger in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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| Paul Reubens and Diane Salinger in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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| Paul Reubens in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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| Large Marge transition from PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE |
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