Review – Big Top Pee-wee

I guess if you subtract Tim Burton and Phil Hartman from the original, this is what you get. In other words, the circus version is pretty badly watered down, certainly Pee-wee on his way back down (a trip that, of course, ended in a porn theater not too long after Big Top came out, if memory serves). I suppose there are a couple of moments that work, but mostly the humor that seemed clever and quirky in the original just seems flat, odd, even dumb here. See if desperate