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Max Keeble's Big Move
EMAILPRINTWalt Disney Pictures
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 19 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 27 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Family/Kids
Written by:
Jonathan Bernstein
Mark Blackwell
James Greer
Directed by: Tim Hill
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 5, 2001
DVD: June 18, 2002
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for some bullying and crude humor
Starring Alex D. Linz, Larry Miller, Robert Carradine, Nora Dunn, Amber Valletta, and Zena Grey
After a rough first day of school, much-bullied seventh grader Max Keeble finds out that he's moving to a new city in a week. Rather than put up with the normal routine of school, he begins an all-out plan for retaliation on all the people who have picked on him. (Disney)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
LA Weekly Mark Olsen
Its overall view of 12-year-old life is essentially one of high-spirited fun.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Loren King
It's the pre-teen set who will revel in the adolescent angst and anarchic high jinks of Max Keeble.
New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
The impulse to shtick it up to burlesque-level inanity is encouraged at every turn.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It is the kind of movie one enjoys more at 8, or even 12, than at 16 and up.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Steve Simels
A shamelessly derivative, if basically likeable, kid's picture.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The real shocker is how many grown men it took to conceive and write this lamebrained tale.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
It's just a setup for another bad sight gag that ends up where the script itself belongs, in the trash.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
A frenetic affair, busy and silly enough to make family froth like "The Princess Diaries" look like Grand Illusion.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
This clunky juvenile comedy lurches among multiple story lines without fully realizing the comic potential of any.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Heather Wadowski
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A movie like this depends on clever bits and incidents, but there's little invention here to disguise the film's formulaic nature.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
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.
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The writers must have racked their brains for the formula: two parts other movies to one part childhood revenge fantasies
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.4 (out of 10) based on 27 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
M L gave it a10:
Mr. McGoogles was awesome! It was a great movie and very funny; it had my family room filled with laughter.
Alyssa T. gave it a10:
OMG! Noel is so adorable and hott all in one film! I love him most in X-men Evolution as Toad. Isn't that ironic. He's afraid of a frog in the movie, but he plays one a year later!
Amber Z. gave it a10:
I think is a great movie, true it was some what simple but i have to love it saying my two favorite actors are in it! The whole reason i actually watched it was only because of Justin berfield being in it. But from watching it i realised there are TWO hott guys in it, aka Noel fisher (troy Mcginty) if you want a real indept comedy then i defenitly say don't bother but if your a 13 year old girl like me who mainly watches things for good look'n guys and light fluffy humor, for sure a movie you'll love!
Mike T. gave it a 9:
Ok, mcgoogles, troy, dobbs, all those are cool, especially the relationship between mcgoogles and troy, but we're missing out on 2 people that kinda cracked me up, lil romeo and the evil ice cream man, ok, so romeo is basically invisible, but in roll call that was funny.
Kristine F. gave it a 10:
It was a cute funny movie. I partly liked it since it had alex linz in it. he's one of my fav kid actors. oh yeah, the mr. mcgoogles part was funny too!
Becky M. gave it a 10:
This is my favorite movie! McGoogles rules (jk) and Troy and Dobbs are soooo funny.
Tina R. gave it a 10:
omg! this movie is soo good!!! u hav to be really old, or not hav a sense of humor AT ALL to not like this especially since it's disney! this movie was one of my favourites AND alex d. linz plays so awesome, and he should star in ALOT more movies, and i don't think just because YOU don't like it, that u should come in here and whine because between me and u I don't care and i really don't think lots of ppl would either or wanna hear u complaining about something! so if u have something bad to say get a quarter and phone some1 really DOES care!
