Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee Herman, an eccentric child-like man, loves his red bicycle and will not sell it to his envious neighbor, Francis. When his beloved bike is stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life, determined to recover it.
24 July 1934, Los Angeles County, California, USA
20 April 1933
6 January 1930, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
6 October 1922, California, USA
17 March 1971
24 September 1948, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
23 December 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 September 1950, Kern, California, USA
July 31, 2015
It's a true original -- a comedy maverick that looks and feels like no other movie I know.
November 01, 2014
Burton demonstrates his knack for building seemingly dynamic meta-worlds inside our own world, depicting Pee Wee's own journey as exciting, harrowing, and often times scary.
February 09, 2010
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.
August 27, 2012
Chiefly successful because of its commitment to an artistic ideal: make something that looks, talks, feels, and moves like a cartoon.
May 20, 2003
You have been warned.
February 09, 2010
Fair warning: this movie could induce terminal boredom in adults and rot the minds of the young.
March 22, 2016
Tim Burton's first (and best) movie...
February 09, 2006
Fed by comic tributaries perhaps, but Pee-Wee Herman comes over as a delightful original.
July 31, 2015
It's a bold attempt to do something dazzlingly original, although some of the gags are spectacularly unfunny and Pee-wee's nervous prattling can become irritating.
October 14, 2011
A purely creative movie that one must admit has no equal in cinema history (for better or worse). [Blu-ray]
February 09, 2010
Reubens always lets us feel superior to his creation, and when his character slips, as it does more than once in this first feature outing, his own condescension shows through.
October 04, 2012
The film's inventiveness is on display from the get-go.
