Big Top Pee Wee

I don't even know where to begin. Nothing could have prepared me for the ridiculousness and absurdity of this movie.

Pee Wee owns a farm, and his best friend is a talking pig named Vance. He also has a fiance named Winnie. They don't really seem to  click. She's doesn't have an imagination when it comes to cloud shapes, and she thinks that he love egg salad.

Pee Wee is an outcast in his tiny little town. The town is full of old people who just don't accept him. Suddenly a storm comes into town, and Pee Wee rushes to get home and put all his animals in the storm cellar. When he re-emerges a circus literally has been blown into town. More specifically onto his farm. Everything is in shambles and Pee Wee starts helping out right away. He meets lots of interesting people including the Thumbelina sized Midge, who is married to the Circus Boss Mase. Also there is Benicio del Toro's first movie appearance as Duke the Dog Faced Boy. There is a group of acrobats made up of 4 brothers, and their sister Gina is a trapeze artist. The second Pee Wee lays eyes on her he falls head over heels.

The town despises and rejects all these circus folk, but Winnie helps them out and starts to bond with the acrobat brothers. Pee Wee and Gina go on a romantic elephant ride where they discover that they are soul mates. They then begin to make out for a really long time and Winnie discovers the affair. The engagement is broken off.

Mase decides to reboot the circus by giving it a farming theme. Pee Wee tries really hard to find something he is good at in the circus, but alas he doesn't find anything. He finally reconciles with Gina, who was pissed when she found out he was engaged.

In order to get the old folk to the circus without sending Pee Wee to jail, he gets all mad scientist on them and gives them a taste of some chemically altered cocktail weenies that Pee Wee has been growing on a tree in his green house. This then shrinks all the crotchety old folk into children, which fill up the circus seats. Pee Wee finally finds his act, walking the tight rope! He takes a moment to stop and do the tequila dance forty feet up in the air of course.  Winnie is engaged to all four of the acrobat bros, Vance falls in love with a hippo named Cza Cza, and everyone lives happily ever after.

At one point during this movie Andrew said that he wished that his life was like Pee Wee's. He was laughing aaaaa lot and it was infectious. I laughed because some of the gags in the movie were just so ridiculous, that its entire purpose is to just be goofy and make you laugh. It was a fun movie to watch but hopefully I won't ever have to enter into the world of Pee Wee again.

This type of randomness kept me intrigued. I know Andrew loved this movie, but apparently he says that Pee Wee's Big Adventure is still his favorite.

Andrew's Closing Thought: An absolutely ridiculous 80's movie.

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