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Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)

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Reviews Counted:54

Fresh:14

Rotten:40

Average Rating:4.2/10

Consensus: Max Keeble may be fun for kids, but bland and unoriginal for adults.

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Childrens

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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Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | comment Comment
10/10/01
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers

This movie is just for fun, and it fits the bill.

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
10/10/01
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Pretty light-hearted and, at times, quite funny.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
10/08/01
Blake French
Blake French
Filmcritic.com

Young kids may like it (others stay far away), but it is guaranteed that no audience member, young or old, will be able to relate to it.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
10/06/01
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

A welcome slice of pie in the face.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
10/06/01
Jane Horwitz
Jane Horwitz
Washington Post

The movie is nothing if not predictable.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
10/06/01
Pam Sitt
Pam Sitt
Seattle Times

Not much better than the easily forgettable straight to video and made for TV efforts it so apparently resembles.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
10/06/01
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

Exactly which children Disney hopes to captivate with Keeble's Big Movea little unclear.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
10/06/01
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday

Bland, occasionally funny Disney comedy about a wayward seventh-grader.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/06/01
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post

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.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
10/06/01
Cody Clark
Cody Clark
Mr. Showbiz

Wittier and more visually clever than it has to be, but you can still guess the rest if you're over 10 years old.

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
10/06/01
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

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.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
10/06/01
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle

It's as ugly and stupid as the kid is cute and resourceful.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
10/06/01
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press

Schoolyard bullying is a touchy issue these days, having been pinpointed as the root of many larger crises such as school shootings. Too bad Keeblesed the opportunity to teach kids something about it.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
10/06/01
Valerie Kuklenski
Valerie Kuklenski
Los Angeles Daily News

While it far too often lapses into retread juvenile slapstick humour and doesn’t finish particularly strong, there is at least a whiff of originality wafting from this one.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
10/05/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

This amusingly stylized comedy can be savored as a wholesomely sadistic treat.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
10/05/01
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
San Francisco Examiner

Like Freddy Got Fingered with cafeteria food replacing the body excretions.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
10/05/01
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune
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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
10/05/01
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Serves nothing new.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
10/05/01
E! Online

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.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
10/05/01
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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