Movie was ruined by Pee-Wee Herman's voice
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animetrucker — 16 years ago(May 06, 2009 11:26 AM)
I grew up in the 8os and despised Herman. I didn't find him overly funny, more stupid than anything else. My little sister loved him thought so I had t put up with watching his movies repeatedly having only one tv at the time.
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coachgig — 16 years ago(May 26, 2009 01:14 PM)
disagree.
pee-wee's voice was fine. i thought his voice really pulled through to make that movie actually happen. i guarentee no one else can play it better then pee wee. although u may have found it annoying and unfunny. but look at the bright side. he got it right. back then it was impossible for them to find the right person for those parts. there was no right person. pee wee was the only top choice. i'll bet he was the only one on that list of voice talents for that part. today maybe it could get a little better. but back in the 80's there was no other actor to get it all perfect like that. they never had many young actors. Today they do but then forget it. -
psychorobotape — 16 years ago(November 07, 2009 01:22 PM)
I have to agree with you that pee-wee's casting was annoying and unfunny. I wouldn't go so far to say that it ruined the film but I do think it detracted significantly. Pee-Wee's delivery relies heavily on an over-the-top comedic absurdism that I feel really detracts from the mysterious and dramatic tone that the film so successfully establishes prior to his introduction. As with many timeless films though, this one seems to ultimately overcome its greatest flaws and remain as fascinating and immersive to experience as when i first watched it some 20 odd years ago as a child. All, that being said, I guess this is ultimately a movie for children and I don't ever recall noticing anything wrong with the shift in the ship's personality when I was a kid.
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silversteeleproductions — 16 years ago(November 17, 2009 11:58 AM)
It was nails on a chalkboard to be. Never liked Pee Wee Herman too much, and years later, my uninterest has blossomed to pure annoyance. That's probably why it was so hard to re-watch the movie years later.
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jmooney-6 — 15 years ago(June 05, 2010 01:58 PM)
If I had my way, this would be the only thing I'd change about the movie! I'd still keep the part with David teaching Max to dance to the Beach Boys as well and other neat things, but I would keep the voice actor the same. Max in the first half would be exactly as he was, but in the second half after scanning David's brain, Max would be more "human", from the speech patterns and inflections (rise and drop in the tone of voice) to also showing more human emotions, such as missing David and other such things (since David himself was an emotional kid). Instead of becoming an over-the-top nut, however, Max would just be "humanized". It'd be more subtle but more "realistic" (well, for a sci-fi movie at any rate).
I like Paul Ruebens, and I like his absurd style of comedy (especially in Mystery Men), but it just did NOT fit the rest of the tone of the film. Maybe Paul could've had one or two wacky lines as Max before Max returned to "normal human" mode, to lighten the mood, but just not for the entirety of the second half. -
Frosted-Flame — 15 years ago(July 17, 2010 10:41 AM)
In a way it's appropriate considering he scanned an immature 12 year old's brain, he didn't have much else to go on, so there was no way to refine his personality to something
other
than a twelve year old's mind.
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Buzz-Duh — 15 years ago(December 29, 2010 05:00 PM)
As a kid it kind of bothered me that Max never acted normal after he scanned his brain. It's like he went from HAL 9000 to HAL 9000 with Down's Syndrome in a snap of a finger. I wanted soft spoken Max back.
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GreenLanternGirl — 15 years ago(March 06, 2011 08:23 PM)
Pee Wee Herman was a popular person in the realm of children's entertainment at that time. The movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure had come out a year earlier and he had a tv show on during Saturday mornings kids programs called Pee Wee's Playhouse. His voice was so recognizable at the time. As a kid when I watched this movie, I didn't realize that the actor voicing Max was the same as Pee Wee Herman. The voice did not sound noticably Pee Wee until after Max scanned David's brain, as a kid, I just assumed that David had seen the show or movie and Max picked that voice out of his brain to better relate to David. Now being older and realizing that David came from the 1970's, he probably didn't ever see the show unless by chance he saw it when he was locked up in his room.
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Livana_Faolan — 11 years ago(April 12, 2014 07:16 PM)
The people who put this movie together aren't going to hire a different voice actor for Max just because you're in a snit. You can make demands all you want. it's not going to happen. If you don't like the voice, and if you really do feel that Pee-Wee's voice, "ruined," the movie, here's an idea: Either avoid watching the movie, or get ear plugs and rely on subtitles during the scenes with Max.