After what Paul been through

Trust him....To do what exactly?

It's funny because Pee Wee(the character) started out as a more adult-themed stand-up act which included being in at least a few premium cable specials(HBO iirc) and, of course, some of Reubens' first movie roles were in Cheech and Chong movies. But then he gets a gig as a kids show host and parents get their collective panties in a wad because he was caught in a porn theater on his OWN TIME.

It looks like from the trailer I saw that he might be going back to this more adult-oriented humor he(and the Pee Wee character) is supposed to be known for. So, if anything, people should have quit trusting him when he "sold out" by cleaning up his act to be a kids show host and not now that he's getting "back to his comedy roots"(apparently).

I do have to say, though, that it's odd seeing him in the Pee Wee get-up again after all these years. I'd almost gotten used to him acting in more 'normal' roles(such as those in "Blow" and "Buffy"). lol

Ohhhhh no! There goes Tokyo! Go, go Godzilla!

I always thought the backlash against Paul was ridiculous anyway. Like this other person said Pee Wee was an adult character Paul created with the Groundlings in L.A. forty years ago. Even the first movie was geared to an older audience. CBS is the greed machine who made him into a role model for infants. The actor got caught in an adult movie theatre 25 years ago. Big deal! Let it go! They guy paid his dues and hung up the platform shoes for awhile. He has been Pee Wee again anyway for the last six years and did an award winning Broadway show as the character. He is almost 64 years old and getting a little long in the tooth but its good to see Pee Wee again in his own movie. I missed him.

Paul was doing a kids show, (I watched as a kid and thought he was real, as Paul intended everyone to think.). It was an idea for him to do a kids show. He got it from Andy Coughman (SP?) inspired by Howdy Doody, and it was not an adult show or intended to be one. He decided it was good publicity to play Pee Wee Herman full time as a real life person in order to convince everyone he was indeed a real person, which virtual everyone believed and bought into back then. No internet then. So when we kids heard, and it was talk among all kids everywhere, that Pee Wee was caught jerking off in a movie theatre. I wasn't really surprised because I could totally imagine it. I liked watching the show but it was a bit creepy and we imagined him in a theatre jerking off while laughing in that voice...

So for him to go to a seedy dirty run down porn movie theatre where hookers, johns, drunks, and drug dealers hang out, was irresponsible and stupid. You ever been on a street with these places? The cops were watching the place and working on busts. Pedophiles went there. He had let himself go so he didn't look like Pee Wee so the cops didn't believe him. I don't care what an actor does on their own time but this was very different. He should have just stayed home and jerked off there. I've lived on the street before. These places are often where you go to shoot up, drink, eat in a warm dark place, jerk off, meet up with like minded people trying to score, or get a BJ. Unless you have a house or you are "Taxi Driver" don't go there.

Hah that sounded pretty self-righteous eh? Really though, I think the movies looks awesome! Pee Wee has a cult following and this movie is for us adults who grew up on him, and anyone else who wants to watch it, kids and adults together. Nobody cares much anymore about what happened anymore. Adults have been buying the Pee Wee toys and other toys we grew up with. That's a big reason eBay started. We just want to have fun and watch without our parents talking smack. My father really hated Pee Wee.

The people who didn't like him labeled him a huge pervert in the early 90's. Meanwhile their husbands were whacking it every day. These are the same women in One Million Moms.