Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Light Green Annoying overacting person, overrated movie, what can I say, another wrong rating that dragged me to watch this movie. I am so furious of those non sense people who with their bad reviews and ratings make busy people believe and start watching such scum.

Alan Smithee Esq. A man-child on an epic quest to reclaim his prized bicycle. Full of some of the strangest and most brilliant characters you'll ever see. It's quirky in the best ways and it's humor is wonderfully off-beat and bizarre. Needs to be seen for the opening breakfast scene alone...and just gets better.

willcundallreview That laugh is contagious, in fact even when this guy is just generally doing something basic he makes a little laugh come out. I am of course talking about Pee-wee Herman, a man who wears a suit, rides a tricked out bike and just generally talks like an 8 year old kid. The movie is all about his beloved bike which is stolen, Pee- wee is devastated, in fact so much so that he faints in the local bike shop. We then follow Pee-wee as he travels far to find his bicycle and over that time he gets into many situations and meets some crazy characters. OK this movie is funny, in fact some scenes are actually really funny and you can't help but find most things Pee-wee does pretty humorous. The movie is though no masterpiece and can be not so funny at times, it is good don't get me wrong but not as good as I have seen some claim this to be. If you take away its cult status then you get a good and very welcome entry into the world of directing from Tim Burton who makes this even funnier than it probably should have been, his odd style actually improves this to an extent that Pee-wee seems crazy and yet so does everybody else. Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens and Michael Varhol create a screenplay that is pretty nicely done for the movie and although most laughs really are generated from the physical side of Pee-wee, it still is very nicely written.One of the writers Paul Reubens is of course Pee-wee himself and creates an extremely memorable character who is likable albeit his kind of annoying personality. Reubens recreates his character for the big screen and brings a kind of person who can make both children and adults laugh. I think one big thing about this is really the fact that adults can enjoy this too, I said about Reubens making it funny but also the way in which the jokes are done are in a way in which all ages can laugh and I feel Burton was really the one who made that work.This movie is as I said before not the very best when it comes to comedy though, some jokes fall a little flat and the movie by the end can feel like a crazy ride where you can't quite remember some of the jokes on show. I did however enjoy the story and that is another thing which makes this a good movie and one that is likable, you don't just have the comedy stuffed in there, but genuinely an interesting story about a guy who loves his bike so much he has to travel far and wide to find it.So overall a recommendable movie and one you could easily watch again one day, it's nice and snappy and at a running time of 90 minutes it doesn't' feel like a slog in anyway. Tim Burton may be remembered for a long time in the future for making his Gothic and very dark films that although are mostly humorous, they never feel like this one, it isn't exactly dark and is a very basic story, never goes over the top and just feels nice, a good little watch for anyone of any age.

David Conrad While focusing on how childlike the Pee-wee persona is—he's like Steve Martin's infamous jerk, but off Ritalin—it's possible to miss how remarkably strange the plot of "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" is. The movie is so successful at using cartoon logic in a live action format that it's easy to think "I've seen this before" instead of realizing "Wait, I've never seen this in a real movie before!" Nobody could predict that the scene immediately following Pee-wee's prosaic stint as a dishwasher would take place inside a giant, hollow dinosaur. It makes no sense whatsoever that Twisted Sister would show up in the film, much less in the same sequence as pair of elephants in full body paint. You could hardly come up with a justification if you tried, but in the movie the transitions are so smooth that these things almost pass as logical. Most of the movie's madness is closely linked to one of two themes, Americana and Americana: Childhood Edition. The occupations and settings are straight out of America's Best Of: truck drivers, roadside diners, rodeo cowboys, biker gangs, The Alamo, Hollywood, Mister Potato Head, clowns, drive-in theaters, and so on. These things have a certain familiarity and consistency, but the actual sequence of events that links them together is truly unpredictable. And yet, even inspired and well-structured zaniness does not necessarily equate to laughs. There are a lot of chuckles, some extended ones, in "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," but there are some strung-out dead zones as well, and some parts that are more funny "huh" than funny "hah." A chase through a movie studio lot, for example, is visually and conceptually interesting, but it lacks the great punchlines of the scenes in Texas. As man-child heroes go, Steve Martin's is more likable, more of an innocent, more hilarious in his total misunderstanding of reality, than Paul Reubens' Pee-wee, who has a certain aura of irony and, dare one say it, perversity about him. Yet the persona and the film are entertaining enough to spend 90 minutes with.