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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1988 DVD Release: 07/06/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 25 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Slapstick, Family-Oriented Comedy See Also: Big Top Pee-Wee [I Love the 80's Edition], Big Top Pee-Wee [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint], Big Top Pee-Wee

Paul Reubens's followup to the box-office hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is just as outrageous and cartoonish, though not as good. This time, child-man Pee-Wee runs a colorful farm, chock full of talking animals and outsized produce. On the morning after a tornado of Wizard of Oz dimensions, Pee-Wee awakens to discover that a travelling circus has been deposited in his back yard. Befriended by circus owner Kris Kristofferson, Pee-Wee takes an acrobatic job, hoping to impress lovely trapeze artist Valeria Golino--thereby incurring the jealous rage of his hometown sweetie Penelope Ann Miller. When the circus is faced with bankruptcy, Pee-Wee comes up with a brilliant idea: why not stage a three-ring spectacular celebrating the wonders of agriculture? A partial takeoff of such earlier sawdust-trail flicks as Martin and Lewis' Three Ring Circus and Disney's Toby Tyler, Big Top Pee-Wee is generally entertaining, but goes off in too many directions at once, leaving a lot of loose plot ends and underdeveloped characters. Also, Pee-Wee's overactive libido (at least in this film!) is not all that suitable for his younger fans. Even so, there are plenty of hilarious set-pieces. Big Top Pee-Wee was produced and cowritten by Paul Reubens. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Paul Reubens - Pee Wee Herman
Kris Kristofferson - Mace Montana
Valeria Golino - Gina Piccolapupula
Penelope Ann Miller - Winnie
Susan Tyrrell - Midge Montana

Paul Reubens made his second big-screen appearance as Pee-Wee Herman in this bucolic comedy. Big Top Pee-Wee has been given a letterboxed transfer to disc in the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1, which has also been enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16 x 9 monitors. The original English-language audio appears in two formats, Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Surround, while a dubbed French soundtrack is mastered in Dolby Digital Mono. Optional English subtitles have also been included. No additional bonus materials appear on this edition. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide