{"id":22842,"date":"2014-10-18T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T03:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22842"},"modified":"2016-10-19T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T03:08:44","slug":"pee-wees-big-adventure-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/18\/pee-wees-big-adventure-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"peeweesbigadventure\"<\/a>Tim Burton\u2019s adaptation of the comedy eighties icon is still a film that\u2019s an acquired taste all things considered. Pee Wee begins as a slightly grating presence, but his enthusiasm eventually wins you over. Even to this day easing in to \u201cPee Wee\u2019s Big Adventure\u201d is a fun and unique fantasy film with Pee Wee Herman managing to entertain with his charismatic presence, unusual voice, and still excellent dance sequence to \u201cTequila\u201d in a biker bar. I remember just about every kid in the late eighties would at one point imitate Pee Wee\u2019s dance on the pool table.<\/p>\n

Pee Wee Herman is a simple man who spends his days living with his dog Speck in a house devised of Rube Goldberg machines that help his lifestyle as a bachelor. His only prized possession is his bike. After refusing to sell it to his rich spoiled neighbor Francis, the bike is stolen by someone while visiting his girlfriend Dottie. Now, Pee Wee is on the search for his bicycle, traveling around the country to find out who stole his beloved bike, and why. Paul Reubens is a lot of fun as his trademark character, clearly improvising in some scenes, while also lending the character some interesting dimensions as the comedy transforms in to a road trip adventure.<\/p>\n

\u201cPee Wee\u2019s Big Adventure\u201d is a film that gives us a look at director Tim Burton before he transformed in to a darker visionary. Here he\u2019s lighter, and more whimsical, while also injecting trademark dark fantasy in brief but very entertaining instances. Burton just seems to understand Paul Reubens\u2019 titular hero, and that makes \u201cPee Wee\u2019s Big Adventure\u201d a surreal and entertaining fantasy. Burton demonstrates his knack for building seemingly dynamic meta-worlds inside our own world, depicting Pee Wee\u2019s own journey as exciting, harrowing, and often times scary. Whether it\u2019s traveling to the Alamo, or coming face to face with an undead trucker haunting the roads, Pee Wee is always far from home, even though he\u2019s always on Earth.<\/p>\n

Burton and Reubens concoct plenty of brutally funny moments including Pee Wee saving a burning pet store, an angry child star rating during a film shoot, and Pee Wee\u2019s confrontation with his neighbor Francis, which introduced the world to his famous one-liner \u201cI know you are, but what am I?\u201d The joint team of Burton, Danny Elfman\u2019s beautiful score, and Pee Wee\u2019s infectious attitude pave \u201cPee Wee\u2019s Big Adventure\u201d as a one of a kind adventure, one that\u2019s teeming with appeal to any audience and promises a good laugh or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Burton\u2019s adaptation of the comedy eighties icon is still a film that\u2019s an acquired taste all things considered. Pee Wee begins as a slightly grating presence, but his enthusiasm eventually wins you over. Even to this day easing in to \u201cPee Wee\u2019s Big Adventure\u201d is a fun and unique fantasy film with Pee Wee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[71,219,349,700,764,851,874,1096],"class_list":["post-22842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-musical","tag-pee-wee-herman","tag-road-trip","tag-romance","tag-tim-burton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22844,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22842\/revisions\/22844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}