This one is mostly for me.
As a kid, I didn't much care for this movie because it was completely removed from the world of Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Pee-wee's Playhouse. It's only through time and experience that I've come to find it brilliant on those merits alone. It's so completely different from everything else, it's kind of magical to me. Pee-wee plays a farmhand who dreams of being a lounge singer when a traveling circus rolls through town and recruits him, capturing his imagination. It's a throwback type of Pollyanna movie full of carnival set pieces out of Paul Reubens's own childhood. This is a weird, oddball movie that doesn't make a whole lot of narrative sense, yet that is what I must reward it on, through and through.
3½ high-wire acts out of 5
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