4K UHD Review – Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Pee-wee Herman was becoming a big deal for actor Paul Reubens in the 1980s. He scored attention with the creation, and success when generating a stage show for the nerdly character, earning spots on late night television and the attention of Hollywood producers. In 1985, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” was the first real nationwide test of the character’s appeal, pairing Reubens (who co-scripts with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol) with director Tim Burton, a young talent making his feature-length debut with the endeavor. The idea was to take Pee-wee’s strange ways and stick them into a story about an outsider hunting for his stolen bicycle, but something wonderful happened to the project during its creation. Burton and Reubens found a way to take something potentially goofy and turn it into a splendid celebration of cinematic imagination, with visual and performance mischief found everywhere in the endeavor. “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” is a special film, sharing an exquisite amount of playfulness and low-budget inventiveness during its run time, allowing Burton to run wild with his youthful interpretation of Pee-wee’s bizarre world of panic, road trip connections, and indefatigable determination to right a horrible wrong. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com