Pee Wee's Big Adventure is a very unique and fun film that I loved as a kid and still thoroughly enjoy as an adult. Our hero Pee Wee Herman goes on a cross country adventure to find his prized possession(his bike) which has been recently stolen. This is the directorial debut of Tim Burton on his first big feature film and as such is a wild, wacky and completely insane piece of demented, yet wholesome family entertainment with colorful visuals, crazy props and a great, totally fitting score from Oingo Boingo member Danny Elfman. Paul Reubens gives a brilliant performance to his character Pee Wee Herman that is an absolute pop culture icon of man child gone bonkers taken off his ritalin and bouncing off the walls from drinking too much Kool Aid for the duration of the film. The other support characters are all memorable and wacky as well and exist in its own fantastical universe. So, join Pee Wee, Mickey, Amazing Larry, Large Marge, Samone and the biker gang Satan's Helpers for a truly profound and insane cinematic experience that is a fun and overall satisfying journey. There is no other movie quite like this and no persona like Pee Wee Herman. This film is an absolute hoot and masterwork of film.

It's Been Ages Since I First Saw This Movie And It's Nice To Know That It Is Still A Funny (In A Silly Way) Movie ... I Believe It Is Tim Burtons Directorial Debut And The Start Of Some Of The Most Famous Music Ever Made For Movies By Danny Elfman ... I Very Much Enjoy (What To Me Is) The Playful Innocence Of The Movie ... A Reminder That Just "Plain Oh" Can Be Enough To Make A Good Movie ...

"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.