This is a terrible film and that's really a shame, as I actually liked the first movie, PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE. I think the biggest problem about this film is that instead of the episodic style of the original that placed Pee Wee in so many different situations and meeting so many different types of people, this film is too static. With a more well-defined plot, you are left with the film resting purely on the character of Pee Wee--something I really can't stand for very long. It reminded me an awful lot of PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE, in that the going seemed very slow and I just needed a break from the character after a while. This was made worse by a lousy and unfunny script--so it forced Paul Rubens just to mug for the camera again and again! Uggh! Plus, without the wonderful direction of Tim Burton, the film just seems lost and aimless in its pacing and plot.

Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) has a farm. EIEIO. His best friend is Vance the Pig and they have a secret lab. He is engaged to school teacher Winnie (Penelope Ann Miller). After a big storm, a traveling circus led by Mace Montana (Kris Kristofferson) arrives in town. The townspeople are hostile so Pee-Wee invites them to stay at his farm. He falls for trapeze artist Gina Piccolapupula (Valeria Golino).

Pee-Wee engenders some likability from the first movie. I never watched the TV show although I don't know how this ties into the playhouse. I like Pee-Wee but stepping out on Winnie is problematic. Winnie saves it for him. I like the pet pig but I don't think Pee-Wee should own a muddy farm. It's like somebody simply put a farm and circus together in a grab bag.

In the sequel to "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) is a simple farmer in a small town. But after a big storm blows their way, a circus ends up at Pee Wee's farm.

There are things to like about this film, like the talking pig and the screen debut of Benicio del Toro and Dustin Diamond (both in very small roles). You also have some bigger names in bigger roles, though why they signed on to this is something of a mystery.

Not that the film is terrible, but it really has no plot. We just have a circus, Pee-Wee as a womanizer, and some random silliness. No real story. And apparently no connection whatsoever to the first film, which seems completely bizarre. What happened to all those characters? Why does Pee-Wee suddenly live on a farm where he studies botany?