| 70 |
Variety
Surprisingly amusing.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
Its overall view of 12-year-old life is essentially one of high-spirited fun.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Jane Horwitz
It's a clever plot with a minimum of the already tired standard kids-on-computers sequence and a maximum of silly face-to-face deflation.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Christine Dolen
Realistic, it's not. But Max Keeble's Big Move, predictable though it may be, makes most of the right moves for the older elementary/younger middle school market.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Bland, occasionally funny.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
It's the pre-teen set who will revel in the adolescent angst and anarchic high jinks of Max Keeble.
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| 50 |
New Times (L.A.)
While some of Max's pranks are exhilarating and funny -- the movie takes too long setting things up and, once the pranks are over, dawdles to its inevitable conclusion.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
The impulse to shtick it up to burlesque-level inanity is encouraged at every turn.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It is the kind of movie one enjoys more at 8, or even 12, than at 16 and up.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
A shamelessly derivative, if basically likeable, kid's picture.
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| 38 |
USA Today
The real shocker is how many grown men it took to conceive and write this lamebrained tale.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
It's just a setup for another bad sight gag that ends up where the script itself belongs, in the trash.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
Garish, squeal-pitched preteen comedy.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
A frenetic affair, busy and silly enough to make family froth like "The Princess Diaries" look like Grand Illusion.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
This clunky juvenile comedy lurches among multiple story lines without fully realizing the comic potential of any.
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| 30 |
Film Threat
Even though children will probably enjoy the film, without any intelligent humor or surprises, Max Keeble's Big Move will definitely disappoint those who were born before 1988.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A movie like this depends on clever bits and incidents, but there's little invention here to disguise the film's formulaic nature.
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| 20 |
Mr. Showbiz
I'd write it all off as something that is, after all, intended for young viewers -- but then I'd be insulting their intelligence as cruelly as the movie does.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
The writers must have racked their brains for the formula: two parts other movies to one part childhood revenge fantasies
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