Pee-wees Big Adventure

Variety Staff

Children should love the film and adults will be dismayed by the light brushstrokes with which Paul Reubens (one of three credited screenwriters, but star billed under his stage name, Pee wee Herman) suggests touches of Buster Keaton and Eddie Cantor. ( Read More )

Paul Attanasio

Pee wees Big Adventure isnt a movie but a collection of found objects from the garbage heap of low culture: bunny slippers, Mister Potato Head, oversized toothbrush, X Ray Spex, trick chewing gum, big rubber thumb (for hitchhiking), Godzilla movies, the tour at the Alamo, elementary school sing alongs, junk food, platform shoes. ( Read More )

Brian Case

Fed by comic tributaries perhaps, but Pee Wee Herman comes over as a delightful original. ( Read More )

Marjorie Baumgarten

This is the movie that, rightfully, catapulted both Tim Burton and Paul Reubens (aka Pee wee Herman) into the superstar arena. ( Read More )

Burtons first feature revels in the weird, the unpredictable, the infantile and the absurd. A dazzling debut. ( Read More )