PEE WEE'S BIG HOLIDAY

PEE WEE'S BIG HOLIDAY 

PEE WEE'S BIG HOLIDAY - 8/10 B+

I remember the first time I saw PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE and BIG TOP PEE WEE back to back. I'm 21 days away from turning 31 and at the time I was 5 or 6. Renting movies was what I got to do when I was little on the weekends, and I can remember the small section of Blackie's grocery story with the movie rentals. 

I don't think this is as good as PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE and but I like it a bit better than I do BIG TOP PEE WEE.

The nostalgia alone puts me in a good mood. It's fun to relive a bit of my youth . I sincerely appreciated how Lynn Marie Stewart, John Moody and Diane Salinger all made appearances in the film. It amazes me how some people age tremendously over the years and others don't seem to be a day older. I'm sure that others that were in the two previous films and/or the television show probably also made appearances but those were the three I immediately recognized.

The off the wall, stupid, yet you can't help but laugh at it corny jokes had me laughing the whole way through the film. In particularly the part with the farmer and his daughters had me rewinding a few times, till I got the laughter out of my system.

I've always been confused by a few things when it comes to PEE WEE HERMAN films. It seems that it changes its demographic from scene to scene. Sometimes it seems geared towards small children and other times, very adult and borderline inappropriate for children's eyes.

And is Pee Wee a homosexual character? A bisexual character? It makes no difference to me one way or the other, but I wish that it was more direct. Their is most certainly a gay undertone to the character and the tone of the film, but it isn't outright. It's rather subtle. In the least, I would describe him as metro-sexual. Perhaps his goal is to never reveal one way or the other, and to keep people talking, guessing and continuously debating.

I enjoyed this film a lot. I secretly kept hoping for a Mark Holton appearance. That would have been the icing on the cake for me.

It feels good to actually laugh most of the way through a film. I haven't done that in ages.