"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" isn't a movie but a collection of found objects from the garbage heap of low culture...

| Jan 2, 2018

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.

| Feb 9, 2010

Fair warning: this movie could induce terminal boredom in adults and rot the minds of the young.

| Feb 9, 2010

Burton's first feature revels in the weird, the unpredictable, the infantile and the absurd. A dazzling debut.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 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.

| Feb 9, 2010

Fed by comic tributaries perhaps, but Pee-Wee Herman comes over as a delightful original.

| Feb 9, 2006

You have been warned.

| May 20, 2003

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

| Mar 10, 2003