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Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:3
Rotten:13
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Max Keeble may be fun for kids, but bland and unoriginal for adults.
Theatrical Release:Oct 5, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $16,504,546
Synopsis: It's Max Keeble's (Alex D. Linz) first day of seventh grade. He's a good kid who only wants to fit in. But nothing seems to be going his way. The ice cream man tries to foil Max's delivery of the... It's Max Keeble's (Alex D. Linz) first day of seventh grade. He's a good kid who only wants to fit in. But nothing seems to be going his way. The ice cream man tries to foil Max's delivery of the newspaper. The animal shelter where Max bottle-raised a chimp is closing. The school bully, Troy (Noel Fisher), humiliates Max in front of everybody. Principal Jindraike (Larry Miller) threatens Max because he disrupts the school assembly. And to top it off, Max's parents tell him that they're planning to move to Chicago at the end of the week. With the help of his two kooky friends, Megan (Zena Grey) and Robe (Josh Peck), Max contrives an elaborate retaliation at school. Among other things, the threesome initiate an unusually slimy food fight in the cafeteria, and they terrorize Troy by dressing up as a television character called McGoogle the Highland Frog (reminiscent of Barney). When Max finds out that his parents have changed their minds about moving to Chicago, he must apologize for all the mayhem he's caused and say he's sorry to all of the students and teachers whose feelings he hurt. Actor Linz plays Max with a winning gusto and Miller is funny as a power hungry bureaucrat. Pop music stars Lil' Romeo and Myra have small roles as Max's classmates. [More]
Starring: Alex D. Linz, Robert Carradine, Nora Dunn, Jamie Kennedy
Starring: Alex D. Linz, Robert Carradine, Nora Dunn, Jamie Kennedy, Larry Miller, Amber Valletta, Orlando Brown, Clifton Davis, Zena Grey, Amy Hill, Brooke Anne Smith, Josh Peck, Myra, Lil' Romeo
Director: Tim Hill
Director: Tim Hill
Screenwriter: Mark Blackwell, Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer
Producer: Mike Karz
Composer: Michael Wandmacher
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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Jan 1, 1996
Reviews for Max Keeble's Big Move
Exactly which children Disney hopes to captivate with Keeble's Big Movea little unclear.
Bland, occasionally funny Disney comedy about a wayward seventh-grader.
If there's no way to avoid seeing Keeble's Big Move, take along a book, ideally a hefty one. With the proper arm speed and angle of release, you can probably nail the projectionist.
Children may enjoy its food fights, barf gags, slimy gross-outs, kid-power fantasies and adults' comic discomfiture, but there's not much here for anyone over 12.
Given the scarcity of kid-appropriate fare in the marketplace these days, the feeble Keeble will probably move more tickets than it ought to, but it will never be mistaken for a keeper.
This clunky juvenile comedy lurches among multiple story lines without fully realizing the comic potential of any.
There's little invention here to disguise the film's formulaic nature.
Reportedly eight years in development, Max Keeble's Big Move still feels slapped together.
You will imagine that this is not the kind of movie that holds me spellbound.
The predominant feeling one gets is déjà vu sitting through the mind-numbing 101 minutes.
A pleasant family film that will mildly amuse adults and please the kids who've outgrown Barney.
An entertaining and often quite amusing kid flick, with good acting and a good message.
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