I got into Pee Wee Herman's TV show when I found out the sets were done by one of my favorite underground cartoonists Peter Panther. Well It got me so I had to make a point of getting up early Saturday to see it. Being the fan of German expressionist cinema, I loved the talking chair, the head, the clock everything and everyone. Now I had to see the movie too! And it did not disappoint! Whew. That little pansey boy befriending those big bad bikers (hint bikers like people who are real and themselves.) And Big Marge - what can I say. I almost jumped as high as when the witch in Armies of Darkness showed her real face.
This movie reminded me of a dorm councillor in college (lasted exactly one semester and even his wife left him) who responded to our rebellious antics with the timeless wisdom "I think this is all pretty juvenile" (As we tossed his volkswagen off the freeway overpass onto a gasoline tanker to the cheers of thousands of spectators on one of our radio shows.)
This movie is juvenile in the finest traditions of American cartoon cinema, think Betty Boop meets Bugs, Daffy and the Road Runner on a classic 50's red bicycle. Memories of the song about the wreck of the old # whatever will run through your head when you meet Big Marge.
I will never forget Isabella Rosselini's first Letterman appearance, when she commented about Pee Wee's pee wee scandal. That's not a scandal, she said, now my mother having me while living with my father and still married to her husband, that was a scandal. Then proceeding discuss the sex life of snails, their organs, hermaphroditic gender....American have no idea how hilarious our sex scandals are to the rest of the world.
This movie reminded me of a dorm councillor in college (lasted exactly one semester and even his wife left him) who responded to our rebellious antics with the timeless wisdom "I think this is all pretty juvenile" (As we tossed his volkswagen off the freeway overpass onto a gasoline tanker to the cheers of thousands of spectators on one of our radio shows.)
This movie is juvenile in the finest traditions of American cartoon cinema, think Betty Boop meets Bugs, Daffy and the Road Runner on a classic 50's red bicycle. Memories of the song about the wreck of the old # whatever will run through your head when you meet Big Marge.
I will never forget Isabella Rosselini's first Letterman appearance, when she commented about Pee Wee's pee wee scandal. That's not a scandal, she said, now my mother having me while living with my father and still married to her husband, that was a scandal. Then proceeding discuss the sex life of snails, their organs, hermaphroditic gender....American have no idea how hilarious our sex scandals are to the rest of the world.