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    Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)

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    The Pee-Wee Herman in this sequel to 1985’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) is very much an adult. He has a great girlfriend – a school teacher named Winnie (Penelope Ann Miller) with a big penchant for egg salad.

    He has a great farm too – replete with a talking pig named Vance, brown cows who produce chocolate milk, giant produce plants and his pride and joy, a hot dog tree.

    Did you expect any less from a domicile designed by everyone’s favourite idea and gadget man?

    But when the failing Cabrini Circus blows into town in the middle of a huge storm and lands on Pee-Wee’s property, his whole talking-animal, prodigious egg salad world is turned upside down.

    He falls in love with a pretty trapeze artist named Gina (Valeria Golino) and befriends the troupe patriarch Mace Montana (Kris Kristofferson) and Mace’s pocket-dwelling three-inch tall wife, Midge (Susan Tyrrell). He’s also got a scheme to save Mace’s circus – why not put Pee-Wee’s various farm wonders and agricultural marvels under the big top?

    Even with the talking animals, the world that director Randal Kleiser (Grease, Blue Lagoon) puts Pee-Wee into is still a bit more literal, and a bit less whimsical, than the live-action cartoon landscape found in Tim Burton’s Big Adventure.

    This was Pee-Wee the Dark. Unlike in Burton’s film, Pee-Wee is actually reviled by the townspeople and in a similarly uncharacteristic trait, Pee-Wee actually has a libido (symbolised in his aggressive, nearly fetishistic desire to stroke women’s hair).

    Pee-Wee also encounters a very adult romantic dilemma on his hands – two great women, and only one grey-suited, red bow-tied inventor/farmer to go around! There’s even a hot n’ heavy make-out session with Gina. It was the Caligula of Pee-Wee movies . . .

    Pee-Wee Herman
    Paul Reubens
    Winnie

    Penelope Ann Miller
    Mace Montana

    Kris Kristofferson
    Gina Piccolapupula

    Valeria Golino
    Vance the Pig

    Wayne White
    Midge Montana

    Susan Tyrrell
    Mr Ryan

    Albert Henderson
    Otis

    Jack Murdock
    Deke

    David Byrd
    Mrs Dill

    Mary Jackson
    Mrs Haynes

    Frances Bay
    Joe the Blacksmith

    Leo Gordon
    Pearl

    Anne Seymour
    Sheriff

    Kenneth Tobey
    Cock

    Jay Robinson
    Bunny

    Eve Smith
    Paolo Piccolapupula

    Andrew Shalit
    Orin the Strongman

    Franco Columbu
    Snowball the Clown

    Terrence Mann
    Clownie

    Vance Colvig Jr.
    Oscar the Liontamer

    Matthias Hues
    Duke the Dog-Faced Boy

    Benicio Del Toro
    Big John

    Kevin Peter Hall
    Zelda the Bearded Lady

    Lynne Marie Stewart
    Del the Human Cannonball

    John Sherrod
    Shim the Half Man/Half Woman

    Joseph Arias
    Ruth

    Helen Infield Siff
    Dot

    Carol Infield Sender
    Honey

    Judy Rubenfeld
    Herman

    Milton Rubenfeld
    Andy

    Mihaly ‘Michu’ Meszaros

    Director
    Randal Kleiser

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