The new directorial effort by one of the funniest men in Hollywood goes beyond humor to reach something personal, and in that lies its greatness.
When he was 13, he loved the original and thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. Twenty years on, will he think the sequel is funny at all?
It's a relief when you can find a fun kids film that's not a cartoon and is made by an accomplished director (who can still nail a good pee-pee joke).
If they had made baseball cards for comedy writer/performers of the mid-90s, I would have collected them voraciously.
I had already consumed healthy doses of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, True Stories, Airplane and Strange Brew ...
