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Pee-wee's Big Comeback Looks Delightful in First Teaser Trailer
Pee-wee Herman has awoken.
In much the way that Star Wars: The Force Awakens channeled A New Hope to stoke fans' nostalgia and enthusiasm, this first trailer for Paul Reubens's long-awaited return, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, makes a whole lot of nods to 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure. And, 28 years after Pee-wee's last big screen outing, that's not a bad thing at all.
The film, which returns Reubens as the inventive and joyful man-child in an ill-fitting suit, is being produced by long-time fan Judd Apatow, whose reverence for the original film is very obvious here. As with Big Adventure, the trailer for Big Holiday (which is directed by John Lee) opens on an alarm clock that sets off a Rube Goldberg machine of a wakeup call, with springs and strings and catapults that transport Pee-wee from his bed to the great big world outside.
We don't see much more than that, but it's enough to get us very, very excited for its March 18 release on Netflix.
Pee-wee’s Big ‘Portlandia’ Adventure
Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, appeared in the season finale of Portlandia as the defense attorney for "a couple of weirdos" played by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. His monologue on the beauty of the weirdo was incredibly moving, and almost as beautiful as his wig.
Laurence Fishburne Would 'Suit Up' for Pee-wee Herman's New Movie
You may have forgotten that the distinguished thespian who played Othello, Morpheus, and Ike Turner was once a purple chapped gaucho on a kids show. But Laurence Fishburne fondly remembers his days as Cowboy Curtis on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
From 1986 to 1990, Fishburne shared the spotlight with a talking recliner named Chairy, a marionette bully named Randy, and the always blustery and pompous King of Cartoons on a series that Fishburne quips, “you couldn’t even get away with making today.” The brainchild of comic genius, Paul Reubens, Playhouse spawned one incredible movie, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, that launched Tim Burton’s career, and another that is slightly better than you remember, Big Top Pee-wee, if only for the star turn of Benicio Del Toro as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy.
Related: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’
Now, the gray-suited oddball is back with a Netflix movie set for a March 2016 release, entitled Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, and Fishburne said he’d be “thrilled” to rejoin the old Playhouse gang, admitting that “There’s purple chaps somewhere. Trust me.” Although there are no specific plans for Fishburne to film a cameo in Big Holiday, we’ll be crossing our fingers to see an encore performance of Cowboy Curtis someday soon.
For now, Fishburne will be starring on Black-ish, which returns to ABC for Season 2 on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 9:30 p.m.
