Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)

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• Alexis N

  
  Not my favorite Pee-Wee, that's for sure. Even though Valeria is a babe, watching Pee-Wee make out with her is creepy. I miss him being my a-sexual friend. The story is a good one, who doesn't want to join the circus?!

• AJ V

  
  This movie was a horrible follow up to the awesome original Pee-wee movie. If only they could have got Burton back to direct it... of course he was busy making other great movies like Beetlejuice. This one has a ridiculous story and doesn't feel in touch with what you've… More
  This movie was a horrible follow up to the awesome original Pee-wee movie. If only they could have got Burton back to direct it... of course he was busy making other great movies like Beetlejuice. This one has a ridiculous story and doesn't feel in touch with what you've gotten to know of Pee-Wee's world. I hated it.

• Tim S

  
  Not the most terrific sequel, but Paul Reubens can be fun at times.

• Jason S

  
  I really dug this flick as a kid. Paul Rubens had some misfortunes off screen but he did manage to bring a couple real good kid flicks out. Not as good as Big Adventure but still had a lot of magic and a good cast.

• Curtis L

  
  Sooooooooooooooooooooooo bad. What happened to our beloved Pee wee's big adventure?

• Lafe F

  
  The magic and fantasy of Pee-Wee is lost in this sequel. It's gross to see Pee-Wee fall in love with a woman. There aren't any wacky misadventures or gadgets to be seen. Putting Pee-Wee amongst circus folks makes him less unique. A disappointment. It's the only Pee-Wee… More
  The magic and fantasy of Pee-Wee is lost in this sequel. It's gross to see Pee-Wee fall in love with a woman. There aren't any wacky misadventures or gadgets to be seen. Putting Pee-Wee amongst circus folks makes him less unique. A disappointment. It's the only Pee-Wee DVD I won't add to my collection.

• Brett W

  
  In this sequel to the classic Big Adventure film Pee Wee (for some reason) decides to move to a dusty old town that looks like a 1947 time-capsule and is inhabited by hateful, old farts. After a violent storm one night the circus (for some reason) washes up on his farm and from there… More
  In this sequel to the classic Big Adventure film Pee Wee (for some reason) decides to move to a dusty old town that looks like a 1947 time-capsule and is inhabited by hateful, old farts. After a violent storm one night the circus (for some reason) washes up on his farm and from there the film just kind of shifts into idle and coasts blandly until the end, in a series of generic circus hi-jinks and weird romantic encounters. Frankly the films' problems exist at the script level. The whole concept was poorly thought out and executed. In Big Adventure Pee Wee's motivation was simple but effective; to get back his bike. The straight-forward premise then allowed the character to be taken from one place to another in fairly rapid succession, all the while letting each unique situation show a different side of him. The road story was also perfect for quickly establishing what Pee Wee is all about; a grown man who cherishes a bicycle more than anything else in his life. It's sweet, it's something we can relate to in one way or another, but it's also very bizarre. Pee Wee is all of those things. Big Top doesn't take him anywhere, it only thrusts him awkwardly into a love story that is completely unwarranted given his emphatic rejections of Dottie in the first movie. "I like you, Dottie, LIKE!... I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." So whoever decided it would be a brilliant idea to build an entire narrative around Pee Wee Herman having a love-life was totally missing the point of the character.

• Donna D

  
  Not as much funny as the first, but still just as awesome. :)

• Sarah P

  
  Everything you would expect: ridiculous, weird, and mostly unfunny. I'd rather watch just a regular episode of PeeWee's Playhouse anyday.

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