Word: wee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wee's search for the bike takes him all the way to the Alamo, in Texas (where a phony gypsy tells him he could find the two wheeler...
...also clashes with a barroom full of vicious bikers called Satan's Helpers, all of whom he tells to be quiet while he tries to make a phone call. They do not, however, kill him in 18 different ways, as they want to do at first. Pee Wee's ingenuity not only allows him to save his own neck, but to befriend the roadies as well...
...MOVIE IS LITTERED with more bicycle-theme humor, as well as Pee Wee's inimitable laughs, chuckles and snickers. His usual childishness flows easily through the film as well, as witnessed in one scene in which he gets into a "I know you are, but what am I" duel with another overgrown kid from the neighborhood...
...only disappointment is that Pee Wee the actor--like Pee Wee the character--is in his own words "a loner, a rebel," and plays off no one. The audience doesn't care what happens to any of the other characters. While this is pure Pee Wee, it is only Pee Wee. It's too bad that he couldn't branch off into something more original here...
That shouldn't stop any fans of Pee Wee, or of silly humor, from seeing this movie. For while Pee Wee's days as a featured actor will probably be limited in the future by audiences' patience for seeing his routine over and over again, they are still fresh and funny in this flick. Last one to see it is a rotten...