It remains one of the most enjoyable road trip films ever created. The vignettes are so charming and wacky, and the score by Danny Elfman is just right. Not many flicks are genuinely for "children of all ages", but this one certainly is.
Def part of my childhood and I had no idea amazing larry had a backstory. I thought he was just a good magician friend of peewee that had a sweet haircut
No doubt. This is my favorite movie directed by Tim Burton as well. I even got my 8 year old daughter to appreciate its brilliance. We even act out Pee-wee's first encounter with Francis with the "Shhh, I'm listening to reason." Yes, we memorized all the lines and gestures, do not judge us 🙃
The fact Amazing Larry is not explained really makes the joke better. I always assumed that the person Amazing Larry was whispering to was a similar looking man named Regular Larry.
I assumed that The Amazing Larry was a regular of Pee Wee’s world from Paul Ruben’s improv comedy days, the way his neighbors in Pee Wee‘s Playhouse were as well.
i watched it again last week and never know Hartman appears as a reporter at the end or i never figured it out then that Elvira was the Biker momma ... both very good and best friends of Paul Reubens .
Hartman and Reubens were in the Groundlings together, and had a few projects together. For example, he was Captain Carl in The Pee-Wee Herman Show and Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
I rewatched this the day I found out he’d died. It’s such a weird, fabulous movie!! My brother was just at the roadside attraction that has the dinosaurs featured in the movie and they painted the T-Rex in a grey suit and red bow tie in memory of Paul Ruebens. I thought that was really cool!
I’m so glad they went that way with Amazing Larry! You could just tell he was a super interesting dude, and yes it made complete sense why he and Peewee were friends. Also, as a kid I was sure Peewee and Ernest knew each other. Either friends, cousins, one time roomates. It just made sense. Anyway, we’re due for an awesome weird guy in media.
I always was fascinated by both Ernest and Pee Wee as a young man born in the mid-eighties. I was absolutely convinced they existed in the same world as one another somehow.
There were a lot of these oddball characters in the 80s, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mr. T, Larry "Bud" Melman...which actually appeared in another Pee Wee-like movie, Alex Winters' Freaked. Weird Al and Max Headroom too, they all kind of share the same universe.
Sadly, I don't think there's any younger stars willing to commit themselves to a single "weird guy" role. There are people who can do it, don't get me wrong. Tom Holland, Daniel Radcliffe, LaKeith Stanfield, Rachel Sennott, Keke Palmer, Brandon Routh (just off the top of my head). They could all have an iconic original comedic character but nobody in their right mind would want to commit to something like that just because of the possible career risk and lack of money in that kinda thing. TV/Streaming comedies are where its happening.
Much like Ghostbusters or Back To The Future, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is a near perfect film. The trims and deleted scenes, while great, show how important the editing process to a movie is. It could either make or brake a picture, and for Pee Wee's Big Adventure, it made Paul and the film, iconic.
Nice work. High quality videos on these movies are like a continuation of the bonus features that used to be included on DVDs. I was always bummed out that studios don't do them anymore for their blu rays/4k but the equivalent is right here and even beyond the official offerings in the past. The internet right now is the best place for anyone interested in old movies because all this rare and obscure footage has been documented by channels like yours. Thanks.
Something cool: in an interview Paul mentioned he went to a circus camp as a kid. He learned to walk a tightrope. It makes it really cool that when the tightrope bad dream didn’t make it, but it came back in Big Top PeeWee.
It's also worth mentioning that this was composer Danny Elfman's first real film too, and he did a LOT to sell the cartoony nature of the movie's world. It's just insane how many newbies they had on this in major creative roles, who all nailed it. (And yes, there is Forbidden Zone... but considering that was made by the Elfmans and the rest of Oingo Boingo, it doesn't really count. Plus most of the soundtrack is songs, rather than underscore.)
As a 7 yr old, I remember watching the opening theme of "Pee Wee's Playhouse" on Saturday morning cartoons and thinking how magical and amazing it all seemed.
@@Taken2Serious4Life Yeah. I sincerely miss the feeling of absorbing things on a pure emotional level. Nowadays, my intellect just gets in the way of my enjoying movies, music, nature, etc 😓
I saw this in the theater as a kid 5 times…I never got tired of it. My kids have seen it recently and LOVE it just as much as I did, it’s timeless and so wonderfully done.
I always loved and assumed it was actually an intended part of the story that we had no context for Amazing Larry. Because, OF COURSE, Pee Wee knows someone named Amazing Larry! And OF COURSE he looks like that. You just assumed he was another quirky character in Pee Wee's weird world.
And the fact Pee Wee addresses him BY NAME in his one scene, really underlines the staginess of it. It really works much better that the only time we hear his name is when Pee Wee says it in anger.
It’s also worth mentioning that the character of Francis was originally envisioned to be played by Corey Feldman. Just imagine Pee-wee arguing with an actual child.
“is this something you could share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?!” is one of the best lines in the movie, especially since Amazing Larry is not referenced at all before or after👌 I was always disappointed he never used the boomerang bow-tie, though 🤷🏻♂️
@@ItsThatRetro 100% agree. Excluding his introduction was a brilliant bit of editing work. Instead we're left to shrug and say "Okay, well I guess there's an Amazing Larry."
It's funny, even after the countless times I have seen this gem, I never thought about the boomerang bow tie being used in a bit until it was referenced in this commentary. The sequence being cut from the film makes total sense as it did slow down the pace of the Backlot chase. I think just referencing that Pee-wee had no interest in buying it until he saw that it came in his signature red was funny enough. RIP Paul. No other celebrity passing this year has affected me more than yours 😥
@@gregmeyer1805 - yes, the deleted boomerang bow-tie scene would’ve really messed with the pacing of the overall chase scene, but maybe he could’ve just used it on the fly while speeding around on his bike, to hit a switch it open a gate or something 🤷🏻♂️
@@Sam_T2000 Absolutely! I think in order to stay consistent with each magic shop purchase having a use through out the film they could have found another way to utilize the boomerang bow-tie in a faster way. Honestly, they could have edited the original sequence and cut the drawn out camera tracking of the bow-tie's rotation through the air. Or even just sped it up so it appeared faster than it was.
Tim Burton made the right choices with regards to the omitted scenes. Less is more, and the finished product was perfection. I enjoyed 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure' when I was a kid and I still enjoy it over 30 years later. RIP Paul Reubens.
I always loved how Amazing Larry comes and goes without any context. He goes from a supporting character to a nonsequitor and makes the movie even funnier.
HOLY CRAP! AMAZING LARRY WAS EXPLAINED!?!? For 20 years now ever since me and my friends drunkenly watched this movie, Amazing Larry was an inside joke of sorts. Hell back in friendster days I even used a screen grab as a profile picture. This video ......of all videos....just changed my life.
Speaking of Tim Burton, you should do the "Lost Version of Batman (1989)" cause there’re a lot of scenes that were cut from the final film that’ve yet to be released.
First version of the alley fight where Batman fights Bob and there's no swordsman, Knox getting shot at when attacking Joker's goons, first version of Batman meeting Napier/acid drop/escape from the police (they had to build that entire set again to shoot the final version... twice), Knox disguising himself as Batman to let Bruce escape, "Is it Halloween?", extra stuff with the Axis chemist, kids dressed as Batman, extended Dent/Gordon dialogue to the press, Prince's cameo.... and that's just the stuff that we KNOW was shot! Who knows if the batsignal being invented during the Batwing sequence was shot, Bruce calling Vicki from Wayne Enterprises, or anything involving the multitude of unused props, like Joker replacing Gotham's statue with one of himself, or Batman's tracking device, ninja wheels, tranq gun, etc..
I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure the summer after I graduated high school. I liked Paul Reubens and saw him on Mork and Mindy, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, and on his HBO special...so I was ready to be wowed. And I was! It is such a great movie and still holds up today when so many from that era do not. The Amazing Larry scene always struck me as hilarious because it seemed like there should have been a backstory...well now I know there was a backstory. Great video.
A shame 3:45 was cut from the movie because Pee-Wee's Big Adventure was like a present day western which Pee-Wee Herman was like the eccentric cowboy and his bike is like his horse. His horse gets stolen and sets off on a quest to get back his horse. Pee-Wee dressing up as a cowboy which he uses as a disguise when he gets chased by Andy and gets mistaken for a bull rider, which he later gets asked who he is, which Pee-Wee claims he doesn't remember and Pee-Wee going to the motorcycle gang club and getting on the wrong side of them when he accidentally knocks over their motorcycles, which he performs the Tequila dance which impresses the motorcycle gang who let him go and give him a motorcycle so he can continue to search for his bike, are like out of a western and Francis Buxton is like the local troublemaker and bully who messes with the cowboy. I don't care if Pee-Wee Herman is a weird character and what Paul Reubens did back in 1991. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is a true classic comedy adventure film. Entertaining, enjoyable and fun. May Paul Reubens rest in peace.
I appreciate this series you do Joe, it’s always interesting to hear some of the stuff that was cut from some films that haven’t surfaced on DVD or Blu-Ray. Keep up the great work man, take care!
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It’s very interesting to see how a movie changes, evolves, and re-structures throughout the filmmaking process, really shows you how much creativity goes in the film making
9 times out of 10 the stuff on the cutting room floor ends up there for the right reasons, look at the extended versions of T2 and Dumb and Dumber, doesnt even have the same tone or pacing as the rest of the movie, those editors do a good job
Joe, thank you so much for covering Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Seeing more about this movie has put a big smile on my face since Paul Reubens passed away recently. Maybe we'll see WB rerelease the movie on 4k/Blu ray with all this footage cleaned up.
My hubby and I attended a special showing of Peewee's Big Adventure at the Alamo Drafthouse the week after Paul Reubens died. The theater was packed with people, some of whom had brought their old Talking Peewee toys they'd kept since childhood. In spite of his personal issues, he truly was a beloved actor.
Personal issues, yeah, we all have them unfortunately. The way Hollywood shunned him after the porn theater incident was appalling. What was an undercover cop doing in there anyway? No matter, I expect nothing less from trash like Hollywood. The man was flawed like anybody else, but it was sweet, caring, and humble and that's how I will always remember him.
Good thing no one nowadays has such personal issues. In fact, no one has ever cranked down with the pocket sized smut theater on which they take nude selfies... 😂
I always got a kick out of the Amazing Larry part. I just imagined he was another eccentric character in Pee-Wee's world and it didn't need to be explained. I thought maybe he owned a stereo store or something and did his own commercials as Amazing Larry or something like that.
Burton apparently loved the fact that, during this film's production, it felt like he was doing a different short film every other week (an experience he said he wouldn't experience again until the filming of BIG FISH............which honestly is very PEE-WEE-Esque in its own right)
....are you listening Hollywood?? Time to capitalize on Pee Wees death by re-releasing the movie with all these extra deleted film...good luck on the cash grab 🙄
That was amazing about Amazing Larry and the cut out backstory. I just always thought he was another one of the weird types of people in Pee-wee's town, sort of like how all the Simpson's characters are "Just There" and we learn about them through a series of different episodes...like Disco Stu, for example.
Oh man, I just thought of a movie Pee-Wee made a cameo in, "Back to the beach" starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, and a ton of cameo's, definitely "almost cult classic" material.
Do the wizard of oz. There were tons of scenes cut and tons of versions of the script. One version of the script had the Wicked Witch creating a rainbow bridge to trick dorothy and using one of her guards to demonstrate it by killing him. Very gruesome compared to the final movie
I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure on the big screen as a kid. ❤ Thankfully my Dad had great comedic taste to take us to see it. I'm guessing he knew Pee Wee from his David Letterman appearances. 😂
Great content! Awesome to see! I wish more movies today were willing to cut great footage like this for the overall story telling. The process here worked! And they learned from what worked even if we didn’t see it all. Rip Paul and Peewee ❤
Wait, I thought the boomerang bowtie NOT coming back up WAS THE GAG! The one item that doesn't return is, ironically, the boomerang, and that's ACCIDENTAL?!
love this movie so much, cutting out the extra Amazing Larry scenes just made his one appearance so much funnier -- also 0:27 I feel like Nathan Fielder might have a chance
So I watched this movie aloooot as a kid. But one of my parents had taped it when it was on TV and it had some cut out. Including the scene where right after he gets his bike stolen and he has all the people from town in the basement looking at his evidence and stuff. I also can't help but remember when I watch it now all the parts that would head into a commercial and then it would say something like this is the big, big, movie on your Superstation before my dad had time to hit stop recording till it came back on. Lol a different time
They teach the Back to the Future screenplay in film schools now, as an example of perfect structure. They could do the same with Big Adventure. Nothing in it is extraneous; even the deleted scenes had a clear purpose, either in paying off a setup gag or advancing the narrative.
I remember seeing Pee.Wee.on the HBO specials in the early 80's. Those were a little bit more risqué han the t.v. version. All the same actors but just "dirtier" maybe is the word. Anyways they were great nonetheless
They tried to do this with Willy Wonka…and all failed…Pee Wee Herman & everyone involved in the process was a once in a lifetime generational experience….lighting in a bottle
Pee Wee's Big Adventure was the reason my mom refused to go see a movie with me again, unless it was horror. I absolutely loved the crazed mania of it, and she thought the world had lost its mind. Looking back, I think there's a bit of both. It's impressive and holds up in the surrealist world it lives in.
3:27 always made me lose my shit, lol, the fact that half the animals are real and just chilling in the background and the other half are fake animals positioned to be scary, and the way Pee Wee just looks around and screams.
Wtf are talking about? He toured with Cheech and Chong on the biggest comedy tour of the 70's before big adventure in the 80's. He was a well known comedian by big adventure.
Yeah, it was a big deal back then if you asked to come back multiple times on a late night talk show. Of course, this was in the days of when Johnny Carson reigned supreme and David Letterman was considered to be alternative with its content that provided a wider awareness to Pee-wee Herman who initially started off as a comedian who couldn’t tell jokes effectively.
I completely agree with you about Amazing Larry being better off as a BG character than a participant. The implication that Pee Wee just has a friend called Amazing Larry says so much more about him than a whole scene with him would.
I’m interested in a Lost Version of Big Top Pee-wee. The original script had a different ending where Pee-wee and the adults turned kids go to the circus only to find it abandoned. Pee-wee finds a note that says they packed up and left. This concludes with Pee-wee having to now be the teacher of the town full of children and, in true Wayne’s World style 4th wall breaking, Pee-wee decided to do a happy ending at the circus which we see in the final movie.
Never questioned it, just thought it was another great piece of this amazingly, crafted world. I love too how Reubens himself in this clip explains just how simple it is on paper, but again the passion and craft of the writers and filmmakers on full display create an experience truly unique.
I absolutely loved this film as a kid. I remember feeling seen and that there were people out there like me. One of my many favourite lines is - I like you Dottie, LIKE you.
The Alamo remembers you, Pee-wee.
I was there this past August and gave my condolences.
I say we bury him in the basement of the Alamo.
A d o b e
RIP from SATX.
May Spurs Jesus bless him, and hope he's hanging out with Hispanic Elvis. Raise tequila, SALUD!
@JohnnyBurnes what about Mercado Michael Jackson?
It remains one of the most enjoyable road trip films ever created. The vignettes are so charming and wacky, and the score by Danny Elfman is just right. Not many flicks are genuinely for "children of all ages", but this one certainly is.
It's the greatest road picture ever.
As you said, I love that Amazing Larry is never explained; he's just a normal, bizarre part of Pee-Wee's environment.
Def part of my childhood and I had no idea amazing larry had a backstory. I thought he was just a good magician friend of peewee that had a sweet haircut
much funnier without context
I always assumed he was a former pro wrestler who now owns a small appliance store and is known for his wacky late night commercials.
And whoa, how many people knew Amazing Larry was the ASSMAN?
And it was always my favorite part because it had no context. Hilarious!
I think this is one of the greatest movies ever made. R.I.P. Paul Reubens.
It's brilliant.
I don't care what anybody says, this is definitely one of the greatest movies ever made.
No doubt. This is my favorite movie directed by Tim Burton as well. I even got my 8 year old daughter to appreciate its brilliance. We even act out Pee-wee's first encounter with Francis with the "Shhh, I'm listening to reason." Yes, we memorized all the lines and gestures, do not judge us 🙃
It deserves to be included in the National Archives
lightening in a bottle
The fact Amazing Larry is not explained really makes the joke better. I always assumed that the person Amazing Larry was whispering to was a similar looking man named Regular Larry.
That is genius! Regular larry and amazing larry cannot occupy the same space at the same time. A larry off if you will
I assumed that The Amazing Larry was a regular of Pee Wee’s world from Paul Ruben’s improv comedy days, the way his neighbors in Pee Wee‘s Playhouse were as well.
Regular Larry, Amazing Larry's less than amazing identical twin!
No no, that was Shopkeeper Larry. Regular Larry was upstairs guarding the door.
Makes me think of the "Regular-Sized Rudy and Pocket-Sized Rudy" gag from Bob's Burgers. XD
Every single scene in this movie could pass as "the best one." Every single one is memorable.
Literally
I had no idea that Phil Hartman was a writer on this movie. So much talent involved in it's creation, and the quality definitely shows!
i watched it again last week and never know Hartman appears as a reporter at the end or i never figured it out then that Elvira was the Biker momma ... both very good and best friends of Paul Reubens .
Hartman and Reubens were in the Groundlings together, and had a few projects together. For example, he was Captain Carl in The Pee-Wee Herman Show and Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
@pseudotasuki as was Cassandra Lee Peter's (Elvira). Pee Wee's Playhouse has at least five regular of the Groundlings comedy troupe as regulars.
I rewatched this the day I found out he’d died. It’s such a weird, fabulous movie!! My brother was just at the roadside attraction that has the dinosaurs featured in the movie and they painted the T-Rex in a grey suit and red bow tie in memory of Paul Ruebens. I thought that was really cool!
Aw, how nice!
thats just perfect
I’m so glad they went that way with Amazing Larry! You could just tell he was a super interesting dude, and yes it made complete sense why he and Peewee were friends.
Also, as a kid I was sure Peewee and Ernest knew each other. Either friends, cousins, one time roomates. It just made sense. Anyway, we’re due for an awesome weird guy in media.
I always was fascinated by both Ernest and Pee Wee as a young man born in the mid-eighties. I was absolutely convinced they existed in the same world as one another somehow.
There were a lot of these oddball characters in the 80s, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mr. T, Larry "Bud" Melman...which actually appeared in another Pee Wee-like movie, Alex Winters' Freaked. Weird Al and Max Headroom too, they all kind of share the same universe.
@@RM_VFXTruly, it was an era of the eccentric. strange times full of stranger things.
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Sadly, I don't think there's any younger stars willing to commit themselves to a single "weird guy" role. There are people who can do it, don't get me wrong. Tom Holland, Daniel Radcliffe, LaKeith Stanfield, Rachel Sennott, Keke Palmer, Brandon Routh (just off the top of my head). They could all have an iconic original comedic character but nobody in their right mind would want to commit to something like that just because of the possible career risk and lack of money in that kinda thing. TV/Streaming comedies are where its happening.
Yeah i always wondered when I'd see them together as a child. 😢
RIP to a guy who helped raised me. Pee Wee always taught me that silly had value. Im so sad that he’s gone.
well said
Pee Wee was just what I needed in my teen years (which was when I discovered him.) He taught me it's okay to be weird. He and Al Yankovic.
SILLY is the Secret Word of the Day!
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Much like Ghostbusters or Back To The Future, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is a near perfect film. The trims and deleted scenes, while great, show how important the editing process to a movie is. It could either make or brake a picture, and for Pee Wee's Big Adventure, it made Paul and the film, iconic.
Nice work. High quality videos on these movies are like a continuation of the bonus features that used to be included on DVDs. I was always bummed out that studios don't do them anymore for their blu rays/4k but the equivalent is right here and even beyond the official offerings in the past. The internet right now is the best place for anyone interested in old movies because all this rare and obscure footage has been documented by channels like yours. Thanks.
r.i.p pee-wee herman
Something cool: in an interview Paul mentioned he went to a circus camp as a kid. He learned to walk a tightrope. It makes it really cool that when the tightrope bad dream didn’t make it, but it came back in Big Top PeeWee.
It's also worth mentioning that this was composer Danny Elfman's first real film too, and he did a LOT to sell the cartoony nature of the movie's world. It's just insane how many newbies they had on this in major creative roles, who all nailed it.
(And yes, there is Forbidden Zone... but considering that was made by the Elfmans and the rest of Oingo Boingo, it doesn't really count. Plus most of the soundtrack is songs, rather than underscore.)
He didn’t even want to be a composer; now he does the score for a lot of movies including Tim Burton features.
As a 7 yr old, I remember watching the opening theme of "Pee Wee's Playhouse" on Saturday morning cartoons and thinking how magical and amazing it all seemed.
41 y.o. here. It's STILL my borrowed theme song, in my head at least. Magical indeed. I miss the days....
@@Taken2Serious4Life Yeah. I sincerely miss the feeling of absorbing things on a pure emotional level. Nowadays, my intellect just gets in the way of my enjoying movies, music, nature, etc 😓
Thanks for helping keep Paul Reubens's legacy alive!
I saw this in the theater as a kid 5 times…I never got tired of it. My kids have seen it recently and LOVE it just as much as I did, it’s timeless and so wonderfully done.
So there was something Amazing Larry wanted to share with the rest of us!
I always loved and assumed it was actually an intended part of the story that we had no context for Amazing Larry. Because, OF COURSE, Pee Wee knows someone named Amazing Larry! And OF COURSE he looks like that. You just assumed he was another quirky character in Pee Wee's weird world.
And the fact Pee Wee addresses him BY NAME in his one scene, really underlines the staginess of it. It really works much better that the only time we hear his name is when Pee Wee says it in anger.
It’s also worth mentioning that the character of Francis was originally envisioned to be played by Corey Feldman. Just imagine Pee-wee arguing with an actual child.
I think the reason comedians don't get complete creative control of movies anymore is because of Tom Green and Freddy Got Fingered.
Ctrl-F _Freddy Got Fingered_
“is this something you could share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?!” is one of the best lines in the movie, especially since Amazing Larry is not referenced at all before or after👌
I was always disappointed he never used the boomerang bow-tie, though 🤷🏻♂️
Not adding the deleted scene with Amazing Larry somehow made the line even funnier
@@ItsThatRetro 100% agree. Excluding his introduction was a brilliant bit of editing work. Instead we're left to shrug and say "Okay, well I guess there's an Amazing Larry."
It's funny, even after the countless times I have seen this gem, I never thought about the boomerang bow tie being used in a bit until it was referenced in this commentary. The sequence being cut from the film makes total sense as it did slow down the pace of the Backlot chase. I think just referencing that Pee-wee had no interest in buying it until he saw that it came in his signature red was funny enough.
RIP Paul. No other celebrity passing this year has affected me more than yours 😥
@@gregmeyer1805 - yes, the deleted boomerang bow-tie scene would’ve really messed with the pacing of the overall chase scene, but maybe he could’ve just used it on the fly while speeding around on his bike, to hit a switch it open a gate or something 🤷🏻♂️
@@Sam_T2000 Absolutely! I think in order to stay consistent with each magic shop purchase having a use through out the film they could have found another way to utilize the boomerang bow-tie in a faster way. Honestly, they could have edited the original sequence and cut the drawn out camera tracking of the bow-tie's rotation through the air. Or even just sped it up so it appeared faster than it was.
It's a perfect movie just the way it is. RIP Paul.
Tim Burton made the right choices with regards to the omitted scenes. Less is more, and the finished product was perfection. I enjoyed 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure' when I was a kid and I still enjoy it over 30 years later.
RIP Paul Reubens.
I always loved how Amazing Larry comes and goes without any context. He goes from a supporting character to a nonsequitor and makes the movie even funnier.
Amazing Larry has always been right up there with Large Marge to me. I can't believe Amazing Larry was also the Assman!!!
HOLY CRAP! AMAZING LARRY WAS EXPLAINED!?!? For 20 years now ever since me and my friends drunkenly watched this movie, Amazing Larry was an inside joke of sorts. Hell back in friendster days I even used a screen grab as a profile picture. This video ......of all videos....just changed my life.
Speaking of Tim Burton, you should do the "Lost Version of Batman (1989)" cause there’re a lot of scenes that were cut from the final film that’ve yet to be released.
First version of the alley fight where Batman fights Bob and there's no swordsman, Knox getting shot at when attacking Joker's goons, first version of Batman meeting Napier/acid drop/escape from the police (they had to build that entire set again to shoot the final version... twice), Knox disguising himself as Batman to let Bruce escape, "Is it Halloween?", extra stuff with the Axis chemist, kids dressed as Batman, extended Dent/Gordon dialogue to the press, Prince's cameo.... and that's just the stuff that we KNOW was shot! Who knows if the batsignal being invented during the Batwing sequence was shot, Bruce calling Vicki from Wayne Enterprises, or anything involving the multitude of unused props, like Joker replacing Gotham's statue with one of himself, or Batman's tracking device, ninja wheels, tranq gun, etc..
I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure the summer after I graduated high school. I liked Paul Reubens and saw him on Mork and Mindy, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, and on his HBO special...so I was ready to be wowed. And I was! It is such a great movie and still holds up today when so many from that era do not. The Amazing Larry scene always struck me as hilarious because it seemed like there should have been a backstory...well now I know there was a backstory. Great video.
A shame 3:45 was cut from the movie because Pee-Wee's Big Adventure was like a present day western which Pee-Wee Herman was like the eccentric cowboy and his bike is like his horse. His horse gets stolen and sets off on a quest to get back his horse. Pee-Wee dressing up as a cowboy which he uses as a disguise when he gets chased by Andy and gets mistaken for a bull rider, which he later gets asked who he is, which Pee-Wee claims he doesn't remember and Pee-Wee going to the motorcycle gang club and getting on the wrong side of them when he accidentally knocks over their motorcycles, which he performs the Tequila dance which impresses the motorcycle gang who let him go and give him a motorcycle so he can continue to search for his bike, are like out of a western and Francis Buxton is like the local troublemaker and bully who messes with the cowboy. I don't care if Pee-Wee Herman is a weird character and what Paul Reubens did back in 1991. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is a true classic comedy adventure film. Entertaining, enjoyable and fun. May Paul Reubens rest in peace.
I appreciate this series you do Joe, it’s always interesting to hear some of the stuff that was cut from some films that haven’t surfaced on DVD or Blu-Ray. Keep up the great work man, take care!
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It’s very interesting to see how a movie changes, evolves, and re-structures throughout the filmmaking process, really shows you how much creativity goes in the film making
9 times out of 10 the stuff on the cutting room floor ends up there for the right reasons, look at the extended versions of T2 and Dumb and Dumber, doesnt even have the same tone or pacing as the rest of the movie, those editors do a good job
Joe, thank you so much for covering Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Seeing more about this movie has put a big smile on my face since Paul Reubens passed away recently. Maybe we'll see WB rerelease the movie on 4k/Blu ray with all this footage cleaned up.
I mean you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, all the actors are dead or in their 90s.
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You left out a bit deleted bit where Pee-wee attempts to evade Andy by being part of a mariachi band. There’s a still photograph from it.
It's actually a strange remake of The Bicycle Thief
My hubby and I attended a special showing of Peewee's Big Adventure at the Alamo Drafthouse the week after Paul Reubens died. The theater was packed with people, some of whom had brought their old Talking Peewee toys they'd kept since childhood.
In spite of his personal issues, he truly was a beloved actor.
what issues? He was in an adult theatre.. noi diddling kids or doing a Cosby
Personal issues, yeah, we all have them unfortunately. The way Hollywood shunned him after the porn theater incident was appalling. What was an undercover cop doing in there anyway? No matter, I expect nothing less from trash like Hollywood. The man was flawed like anybody else, but it was sweet, caring, and humble and that's how I will always remember him.
Good thing no one nowadays has such personal issues. In fact, no one has ever cranked down with the pocket sized smut theater on which they take nude selfies... 😂
@@danielbloomquist9810 🤣 touche! They've just given us easier access over thirty years later.
@@danielbloomquist9810 You want a pic of my Pee Wee? LOL
I always got a kick out of the Amazing Larry part. I just imagined he was another eccentric character in Pee-Wee's world and it didn't need to be explained. I thought maybe he owned a stereo store or something and did his own commercials as Amazing Larry or something like that.
I'm the same way. I was okay without knowing his backstory. He makes sense in the Pee-Wee universe.
No it can't be made today, not without Phil Hartman writing.
Burton apparently loved the fact that, during this film's production, it felt like he was doing a different short film every other week (an experience he said he wouldn't experience again until the filming of BIG FISH............which honestly is very PEE-WEE-Esque in its own right)
....are you listening Hollywood?? Time to capitalize on Pee Wees death by re-releasing the movie with all these extra deleted film...good luck on the cash grab 🙄
Not going to happen. Not enough people would be interested.
That was amazing about Amazing Larry and the cut out backstory. I just always thought he was another one of the weird types of people in Pee-wee's town, sort of like how all the Simpson's characters are "Just There" and we learn about them through a series of different episodes...like Disco Stu, for example.
RIP Paul Rubens
Loved this movie and the TV Show
"Good morning breakfast"
"Good morning Pee Wee"
"Would you like some Mr.T cereal??"
"O.K.!!"
"I pity the fool who don't eat my cereal!!"
My question has always been why did his second movie feel like such a drag compared to his first, I will assume it was because burton wasn't involved.
Oh man, I just thought of a movie Pee-Wee made a cameo in, "Back to the beach" starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, and a ton of cameo's, definitely "almost cult classic" material.
This movie, the sequel,and the show were so foundational to me as a young boy. Life long love for Paul.
Do the wizard of oz. There were tons of scenes cut and tons of versions of the script. One version of the script had the Wicked Witch creating a rainbow bridge to trick dorothy and using one of her guards to demonstrate it by killing him. Very gruesome compared to the final movie
I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure on the big screen as a kid. ❤ Thankfully my Dad had great comedic taste to take us to see it. I'm guessing he knew Pee Wee from his David Letterman appearances. 😂
Great content! Awesome to see! I wish more movies today were willing to cut great footage like this for the overall story telling. The process here worked! And they learned from what worked even if we didn’t see it all. Rip Paul and Peewee ❤
Wait, I thought the boomerang bowtie NOT coming back up WAS THE GAG! The one item that doesn't return is, ironically, the boomerang, and that's ACCIDENTAL?!
One of my all time favorite movies!
God I fucking love this movie so much.
love this movie so much, cutting out the extra Amazing Larry scenes just made his one appearance so much funnier -- also 0:27 I feel like Nathan Fielder might have a chance
I think that even if a director wanted to make something as edgy as blazing saddles today, the few studios left would not fund it
EASILY Tim Burton's best movie. Brilliant brilliant comedy.
One of my favorites. I used to watch this over and over again as a kid and it still makes me laugh as an adult.
So I watched this movie aloooot as a kid. But one of my parents had taped it when it was on TV and it had some cut out. Including the scene where right after he gets his bike stolen and he has all the people from town in the basement looking at his evidence and stuff. I also can't help but remember when I watch it now all the parts that would head into a commercial and then it would say something like this is the big, big, movie on your Superstation before my dad had time to hit stop recording till it came back on. Lol a different time
They teach the Back to the Future screenplay in film schools now, as an example of perfect structure. They could do the same with Big Adventure. Nothing in it is extraneous; even the deleted scenes had a clear purpose, either in paying off a setup gag or advancing the narrative.
They could never make Blazing Saddles today. They'd take one look at the script and go "Wait, this is Blazing Saddles. This movie exists already."
I remember seeing Pee.Wee.on the HBO specials in the early 80's. Those were a little bit more risqué han the t.v. version. All the same actors but just "dirtier" maybe is the word. Anyways they were great nonetheless
Thank you for this, Joe. It's a great tribute to the genius that was Pee Wee. RIP, Paul Reubens.
One of my all time favorite films. R.I.P. Mr. Reubens. Thanks for all the fun.
The amount of practical effects, claymation and stop motion photography are the real gems in this classic film! Auvoir peewee!
They tried to do this with Willy Wonka…and all failed…Pee Wee Herman & everyone involved in the process was a once in a lifetime generational experience….lighting in a bottle
Pee Wee's Big Adventure was the reason my mom refused to go see a movie with me again, unless it was horror.
I absolutely loved the crazed mania of it, and she thought the world had lost its mind. Looking back, I think there's a bit of both. It's impressive and holds up in the surrealist world it lives in.
I wish movie producers still made weird risky crap instead of safe boring bullshit
3:27 always made me lose my shit, lol, the fact that half the animals are real and just chilling in the background and the other half are fake animals positioned to be scary, and the way Pee Wee just looks around and screams.
R.I.P. Pee-wee, I say we bury him in the basement of the Alamo.
The way his body falls off the motorcycle after he’s crashes through the sign gets me every time such a great movie
Large Marge was a great introduction for a kid as a jump scare
Paul Reubens might be dead but Pee-Wee Herman lives forever!!! ❤❤
Big adventure is a perfect movie. Thank you for noting this.
Thank goodness. RIP to my favorite "child" comedian. I loved him in everything he's been in.
As a child, this movie had me convinced tearing the tag off of mattresses was a crime punishable by law.
Alan Cummings and Jim parsons look the closest to Paul reubens
The ghost of Pee Wee Herman will forever haunt the basement at The Alamo.
Big Top Pee Wee was such a disappointment.
Rest In Peace Peewee Herman
Wtf are talking about? He toured with Cheech and Chong on the biggest comedy tour of the 70's before big adventure in the 80's. He was a well known comedian by big adventure.
Yeah, it was a big deal back then if you asked to come back multiple times on a late night talk show. Of course, this was in the days of when Johnny Carson reigned supreme and David Letterman was considered to be alternative with its content that provided a wider awareness to Pee-wee Herman who initially started off as a comedian who couldn’t tell jokes effectively.
I completely agree with you about Amazing Larry being better off as a BG character than a participant. The implication that Pee Wee just has a friend called Amazing Larry says so much more about him than a whole scene with him would.
Just goes to show that a little goes a long way, Amazing Larry is legendary even without a back story.
I’m interested in a Lost Version of Big Top Pee-wee. The original script had a different ending where Pee-wee and the adults turned kids go to the circus only to find it abandoned. Pee-wee finds a note that says they packed up and left. This concludes with Pee-wee having to now be the teacher of the town full of children and, in true Wayne’s World style 4th wall breaking, Pee-wee decided to do a happy ending at the circus which we see in the final movie.
Very well done. "Amazing", if i say so myself.
Loved every bit of this, especially when at the biker bar and pee wee says, "shhhhhh, im trying to use the phone". Classic!!!!
“That means the Large Marge I saw was…”
[Everyone in deadpan unison] “Her ghost!”
Fantastic video. I always enjoy your edits and call-backs, Joe.
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure was one of my favorite movies growing up and I still love its completely zany story, characters and art design.
0:27 Closest we’ve gotten recently is when Nickelodeon plagued their network with Fred Figglehorn.
The funny toy frog in the hospital scene is one of the props from Pee-Wee’s original HBO comedy special.
Based
Never questioned it, just thought it was another great piece of this amazingly, crafted world. I love too how Reubens himself in this clip explains just how simple it is on paper, but again the passion and craft of the writers and filmmakers on full display create an experience truly unique.
These extra scenes gave me such joy today.
You really do an amazing job with your research and footage included in your videos.
The best Pee-Wee movie: *MYSTERY MEN*
RIP to Pee Wee🕯
Still I wouldn't mind an extended cut where we have all that back in as a choice to watch.
I absolutely loved this film as a kid. I remember feeling seen and that there were people out there like me.
One of my many favourite lines is
- I like you Dottie, LIKE you.
Au revoir, Pee Wee!
Being a kid and seeing this when it was released was so worth it and then every day on VHS.