Very well executed

Very Cool!!!

To me, this movie is perfection.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

The odd thing about the Big Adventure is what an oddly well-made flick it is. Reuben appears to have great comedic sense/timing, Burton whips the second string cast into decent shape, and Burton's general skills in directing set design, choosing shots, setting theatrical tone, and (no doubt) his contribution to the final edit make the flick actually work. In spite of it being a bizarre, cubistic picaresquerie, the story continually rewards your investment of time and attention.But, of course, it's not a "great" movie. At heart, it's a string of comic bits which range in quality from watchable to classic. The premise isn't that someone stole Pee-Wee's bike; it's that Pee-Wee woke up in the morning. Hence, something fundamentally milkable for comic value was bound to ensue, regardless.I loved this flick, as I also loved P-W's Playhouse, back in the day. The man was absolutely ON FIRE as Pee-Wee, and I hope his legacy is appreciated as a significant part of American pop culture history.The Big Adventure is a not-half-bad encapsulation of the wonder of Pee- Wee.

"Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" is one of those movies I watched repeatedly as a kid, and was caught off-guard but its all-ages appeal as an adult. My kid even tool to it surprisingly well. Didn't even bat an eye at the clowns, although I was gun-shy on Large Marge. I'll save that for when she's older.It tickles me that this is a (seemingly unlikely) Tim Burton movie, and there' a distinct "Better Off Dead" vibe with the animation (which comes outta nowhere but still totally fits). And I love that, not only is there an educational tour of the Alamo right in the middle of the adventure, but that the journey culminates in a satirical show-stopping chase through the Warner Bros. backlot.This movie's a treat.8/10

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.

This may have been a tale about Pee Wee's "big" adventure, but everything about it said "small" to me. It's like the saying goes - "Small things amuse small minds" - And, yes, so, indeed, does this movie.It sure seemed to me like everything in this garishly loud, flippantly gay movie was being shown to me as if I were all still in kindergarten.Wearing mascara, face powder, and even lipstick, Paul Reubens' Pee Wee Herman character (with his slight frame and decidedly effeminate mannerisms) came across to me like some sort of frustrated transvestite who would've obviously been much more comfortable wearing 6" stilettos and a frilly dress.The small-minded mentality and eccentric humour that prevailed throughout Pee Wee's Big Adventure was strictly hit-n-miss stuff which only worked to its advantage about half the time.For the life of me, I cannot fathom Reubens' Pee Wee character being as popular as he apparently was back in the 1980s. At best, I found his often-bitchy shenanigans to be only marginally amusing, for the most part.As well, I find it hard to believe that this film of flighty nuttiness was actually directed by the heavy hand of Mr. Gloom & Doom, himself, Tim Burton.