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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure [1985] (1 disc) ... |  | |
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Length: | 90 minutes (1 hour 30 minutes) | MPAA Rating: | PG | Sorting Category: | Comedy | Sorting Tub: | Delta |
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| Classifications: | - Comedy
- Kids
- Fantasy
- Family
- Stop Motion
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Synopsis: When eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.
Reaction: Excessively silly, but that's Pee-Wee for you.
Personal Rating: 7/10 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - Cameo: John ParagonJohn Paragon: man dressed in red armour with a high voice that Pee-Wee talks to at the movie lot.
- This is the first (and only time) Pee-Wee swears when he says "I don't want some other crappy bike".
- Cameo: Cassandra PetersonCassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira): Biker Mama at the Biker Bar.
- Jan HooksJan Hooks improvised the dialogue for her scenes as the Alamo tour guide.
- In real life Paul ReubensPaul Reubens was very sick from the flu during the scene where he returns to the bike shop after his bike is stolen and Pee-Wee falls on the bikes. This is mentioned in the commentary.
- Many of the actors in this film also appeared with Paul ReubensPaul Reubens in [Pee-Wee's Playhouse], albeit in very different roles from the ones they play here.
- When Pee-wee weighs in at the beginning of the movie, we see that he is in fact a 98 pound weakling.
- Tim BurtonTim Burton's directorial debut.
- Paul ReubensPaul Reubens mentions on the commentary that during the scene in the movie where he is wheeled out of the bike shop on a gurney, Elizabeth DailyElizabeth Daily's face went completely white. After filming the scene, he asked her what was wrong... apparently she was having flashbacks of her boyfriend [?] Jon-Erik Hexum being wheeled off of a movie set on a gurney. (He accidentally shot himself whilst filming the pilot episode of [Cover Up]).
- Tim BurtonTim Burton and Paul ReubensPaul Reubens brought on Danny ElfmanDanny Elfman as composer after Burton had attended concerts by Oingo Boingo, of which Elfman was lead singer and songwriter. Elfman was originally apprehensive, having no formal music training, but he was assisted by Boingo guitarist [?] Steve Bartek as orchestrator. Elfman later said that hearing his music performed by an orchestra for the first time was one of the most thrilling experiences of his life.
- Cameo: Lynne Marie StewartLynne Marie Stewart: impatient mother superior at a movie set.
- During the entire time Large Marge tells her story, she never blinks.
- Director Cameo: Tim BurtonTim Burton: the thug who accosts Pee-wee just before he enters the fortune teller's studio.
- Cameo: Tom BerengerTom Berenger: Patron that turns around in the diner after the Large Marge sequence.
- Cameo: Phil HartmanPhil Hartman: reporter interviewing Francis at the drive-in.
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