Pee Wee's Big Adventure – 3.5/5
It's weird, because I giggled a lot, but also I find it... exhausting? Part of it is Pee Wee who is both hilarious and kind of a difficult person—a child who I would hate to babysit?—and the other part I think is just a lack of momentum from a first-time director still finding his footing? I dunno. I love Pee Wee — or rather I love the idea of Pee Wee. He's funny just by looking at things in that way he can look at things, by how quickly he can turn things off and on. He doesn't have to be funny; he is funny. And I enjoy that he doesn't live in a cartoon as with his show; he stands out exactly as odd as he should, gleefully and willfully weird in a not-quite-as-weird world. His persona has a magical quality of fitting in anywhere, making everything he touches a little stranger rather than everything else making him feel more out of place. There's a contrast here that isn't in the show. But, on the other hand, the show was only 22 minutes, which might be just the right amount of him at any one go. Also, I'm being hypercritical of a thing that made me giggle a lot. Fuck the shit out of me.
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