6BThe Daily Tar HeelFriday, August 23, 1985
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of-t he-throat laugh, cray dance, goofy
toys and funny walk would be enough
to entertain viewers for the length of
a feature. Pee H'cc's Big Adventure has
that and more.
As silly as it all may seem. Pee Wee
Herman comes off as a real character.
He's not just a cray cartoon figure.
Reubens has created a character that
is physically grown-up but is forever
locked in the 1 0-year-old world of
make-believe and magic. Pee Wee
Herman is the kid in everyone taken
to a ridiculous, bizarre, hilarious
extreme.
Burton's direction gives the film the
look of a Saturday morning cartoon in
the old Warner Brother's tradition:
cray camera angles, fast-paced action,
a grandiose score and larger-than-life
characters. The plot is activated when
Pee Wee's prized bike is stolen, and he
is forced to embark on an odyssey to
recover it. On the road, he runs into
an assortment of strange characters.
They are all misfits, but Pee Wee
manages to befriend them all, or at least
to render them harmless with his oddly
ingratiating pesonality.
The film's greatest asset is its mindless
attitude toward fun. In Pee Wee
Herman's world, there is as much fun
as there is sadness in the real world.
He gets a kick out of things the viewer
normally wouldn't, so the viewer gets
a kick out of Pee Wee.
Big Adventure scores because it
manages to maintain this mindless
attitude and still convey somewhat of
a message. It's a movie about dreams.
It's about a person's ability to follow
his dream to its fulfillment without ever
relinquishing his character, his individ
uality, what makes him special and
unusual. True, it sounds like shlock on
paper. But it works on the big screen,
where it's not what's said but how
it's said that's important.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure will please
anyone that is, anyone who
remembers playing with his red fire
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Head or riding his new bike down the
street (and trying to cut a wheelie). In
other words, it's for anyone who
believes the kid in him is still lurking
somewhere deep inside, waiting to jump
out with a hearty laugh and a wide
eyed smile. Just like Pee Wee.
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rowdiness in Bachelor Party to arrogant
snobbery here. Yet despite the differ
ences in these three characters, he has
maintained the same unruffled, boyish
charm of a man whose philosophy in
, life is to take whatever comes and have
as much fun as he can along the way.
The worst you can say about Volun
teers is that it could have been better.
The best you can say about it is that
it's a flawed success. The most accurate
thing you can say is that it leaves a good
taste in your mouth along with a vague
resentment and a sigh for what might
have been.
manner. Watching Walters jump up and
down while playing, the audience could
only marvel at the group's ongoing
affection for live performance despite
six years on the road. Informal intro
ductions to songs as well as friendly
remarks were distributed freely, and the
effort to involve the audience in the
music was wholly successful.
The band played various requests,
including the Beatles "Birthday" for a
girl in the audience celebrating hers. It
was hard to determine who was more
enthusiastic about the evening's concert
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After the regular set, the two encores
were John Lennon's "Imagine" and a
blistering rendition of Hendrix's "Pur
ple Haze" which left no doubt in
anyone's mind that for all their catchy
harmonies and winning manner, the
Spongctones are first and foremost
serious musicians.
The 460s may be over but the energy
of the decade is very much intact in
some quarters. Anyone doubting that
need only check out a Spongetones
concert.
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