Max Keeble's Big Move

Plot synopsis:
Seventh grader Max Keeble (Alex D. Linz) is a paperboy who has a huge crush on Jenna (Brooke Anne Smith), the daughter of one of his paper recipients. Max is antagonized by the corrupt megalomaniacal school principal, Elliot T. Jindrake (Larry Miller), resident bullies Troy McGinty and Dobbs (Noel Fisher and Orlando Brown), and the Evil Ice Cream Man (Jamie Kennedy). Max also learns that an animal shelter he visits is being closed down to build Jindrake's opulent football stadium.
When Max's father, Donald (Robert Carradine), reveals that he is moving to Chicago for his boss, because he is unable to stand up for himself, Max realizes that he can do whatever he wants to Jindrake, Troy, Dobbs, and the Evil Ice Cream Man, facing no consequences because he will be gone by then. Enlisting his equally socially outcast friends, Robe and Megan (Josh Peck and (Zena Grey), pranks include traumatizing Troy by playing the main theme song of the fictional children's television show, MacGoogle the Highlander Frog, which frightened him as a child, trapping him in the gym with a MacGoogle suit wearer, instigating a fight between Dobbs and the Evil Ice Cream Man by stealing the coolant coil for the ice cream truck and Dobbs's handheld device, and ruining Jindrake's chances of becoming superintendent to replace the current superintendent, Crazy Legs (Clifton Davis), by planting animal pheromones within his breath spray, instigating a food fight in the cafeteria, and later by sabotaging his announcements by placing a cardboard cutout of Max pointing at him claiming that he was wearing a thong.
After his missions are completed, Max ends up ditching Robe and Megan's going away party by accepting an invitation to Jenna's milkshake party, causing a falling out. Taking Max's earlier advice to heart, Don announces that he quit his job and started his own business, meaning that Max is not moving after all. Max freaks out at this news, and learns that other students at his school are suffering because of his actions. Max states that no matter who you are, you can always stand up for yourself. Max confronts Jindrake, Troy, and Dobbs one final time, and with the help of other students at his school, Max eventually defeats Troy and Dobbs for good by throwing them into the dumpster and stops Jindrake from demolishing the animal shelter, which later gets him fired for fiddling with the school budget to build his stadium (due to Max tricking Jindrake into publicly admitting to fiddling with the school budget earlier). The film ends when Max rides on his bicycle delivering newspapers around his neighborhood, and the Evil Ice Cream Man starts pursuing him once again.

Tags: revenge, prank

Review:
And Max earns respect not because he's the toughest, but because his turnabout beats the bullies at their own game, and because he won't let his buddies take the rap alone.This movie, and Shrek, See Spot Run, Cats & Dogs, and Spy Kids, are some of the most enjoyable movies I have seen in the last 10 months.
Amusing for adults, a blast and a half for pre-puberty members of the family, Max Keeble is just good junior high fun.Resiliently taking it all in stride, Max (and friends) absorb typical 6th grader abuse: the school yard bully, the angry principal, retaliatory ice cream man, and a looming move out of state.
(He's also very good in Princess Diaries.) Noel Fisher covers the leather jacket, wallet-chain-wearing bully role well too.The triangle of friends, in contrast to the buffoony bad guys, hang closer to the kinds of kids we know (or used to be).So when Max learns that his family will suddenly be moving to Chicago, he decides to return a few transgressions inflicted on himself and his friends.
It takes man to clean it up."Some somewhat stereotypical themes are peppered tastefully with carefully shot fun, good acting, and a strong sound track that accentuates the folly.I simply love the scene where the school's sexy science teacher strolls across the classroom setting each Bunsen burner a light as she passes, simply because she is perceived to be the "hottest" teacher in the school.Coincidentally, Alex D.
Linz and Zena Grey (Max Keeble and best friend Megan) enjoyed my particular screening from the front row.As the credits rolled, they stood up and boogied to the soundtrack.
Max Keeble's Big Move was an excellent movie!
Terrific kids film about a junior high student who gets tired of being tormented and vows to get his revenge after learning that his family is going to move away.
Max Keebles Big Move, is a very funny family movie, kids will enjoy along with the rest of the family, the movie is based on a boy named max ( alex linz) who is told he is moving to chicago, max really doesn't like the idea as he just started his first week at high school along with best friends megan (zena grey) and robe ( josh peck) this is supposedly his year in his town starting high school and making good friends, out of spite of moving he takes advantage of the fact that he will be in chicago after the first week of high school.So max gets revenge on all of the bully's, i wont say no-more you must watch it i have watched this over 100 times, i think i need a new copy!.
I think that Max Keeble's Big Move is a fun movie that young kids can enjoy.
I am only 12 years old and some adults may think it is boring but it is definintly a funny and classy movie for pre-teens..
It stars Home Alone 3's Alex D Linz as the title character and a fat Josh Peck as his best friend Robe.
The movie is about Max entering the 7th grade, where he must be subjected to bullies, peer pressure and an odd faculty.
There's many other scenes that make this wonderful.Max Keeble was back in the days when characters in family movies were made with such depth and like-ability.
This is a great movie but could have been better if they replaced every character except Alex Linz, Zena Grey, and maybe the principle.
But on the movies storyline which makes up Max Keeble goes to this animal shelter to see the animals but the principle buys the rented property and Max tries to protest but that fails when the principle takes down his posters and then Max does it his own way by sneaking into the school at night to checkout the funds for the school and put something is his mouth-spray to attract the animals; and it goes on from there between the feud between Max and the principle..
I think this is a charming movie about Max Keeble (Alex D.
I happen to think the story was a little dumb but the movie ended up being okay.
While "Max Keeble" has his moments (there are moments of genuinely good humor, although they are few and far between) I wouldn't recommend it to an older audience.It shows a blatant disrespect towards authority.
In Max Keeble's world, he gains popularity and practically is given a medal.The "Evil Ice Cream Man" is just silly, and serves no purpose save dragging the plot along.I really did like Alex D.
This was a kiddie-film through and through, and there was no mention of anything sexually related and there sure as hell weren't any  sexual innuendoes to speak of.If you want a cute movie for your kids get this movie, but don't plan on sticking around while they watch it..
The brilliantly written story line, the outrageously funny Larry Miller (who played the principal Mr. Jindraike), and the super talented Alex D.
His fast moving telling of the story grabbed me at the beginning and held me all the way to the end, roaring with laughter.What made this a most excellent film, was the great interaction between the three main characters: Max (Alex D.
Super, super talented actors that were just plain fun to watch!This movie reminds you that no matter what happens, friends are one of the most important qualities of life.A cool, light hearted comedy for the whole family!.
The only conclusion I can come to about why someone wouldn't like it, is because it is "too perfect!" Anyone who didn't like it, may have been put-off by the unrealistically perfect world created in this movie.The main character, Max Keeble (played by Alex D.
He's got good looks and a smashing personality, two cool buds to hang out with who will do anything for him -- Robe (played by Josh Peck) and Megan (played by Zena Grey) who also "really likes him".
There for a time, it does look like Max is going to lose everything: his best friend Robe, Megan who "really likes him", and probably his life when one of the many bullies catches up to him.
Then he faces up to each of the bullies, beating them at their own game, and thus becomes the school "hero".Couple this fast paced story with interesting sets and costumes, impeccable lighting and sound, and Tim Hill's directing, and you end up with the "perfect" Saturday Matinee Movie, with a happy ending to boot!
It would be way cool, with Justin Berfield as the school newspaper editor narrating and covering all the antics of Max, Megan, and Robe; popping up just at the right time to snap pictures and to keep the plot moving.
This is a surprisingly entertaining little film about one kid's first week in junior high school, and his determination to start the new school year with "phattitude", Alex D.
Linz is extremely likeable in the role of Max Keeble, and his charm and energy carry the film.
The jokes are great, Alex Linz (Max Keeble) plays this character like a charm!
I liked the way he stood up to the bullys of the movie.
The movie had a good story to it that it is okay to stand up to what you believe in and that bullys will get what is coming to them.
This is not the sort of film I usually like, but by dint of my avuncular duties (I've got two young nieces and one hyperactive nephew), I ended up last weekend at Max Keeble.
Unfortunately, the film had to be done by Disney, which means that the possibilities are at a limit, and that anyone who enjoys it the most will be little kids who "think" they know what middle school is like.
Any elementary schooler who watches this movie will think they've got middle school planned out, but in a few years, they'll find that they had it all wrong.Max Keeble is supposed to be your typical unpopular kid, who after finding out that he'll be moving in a week, decides to live his remaining time at middle school to the fullest.
Principal Jindraike and the Evil Ice Cream Man are both supposed to be mean, but we see them being so cruel that they really should be spending time.My least favorite part of the movie would have to be the fact that the Keebles find out they're moving a week before it happens.
Max Keeble's Big Move seems like a combination of several different films and none of them worth watching.
It's stating he is making a "big move," so you'd assume that with a prior introduction you'd have some essence to what that "big move" might be.Upon seeing this advertised years ago I had a thought in the back of my mind that if the film would become very successful Max Keeble would be the next character to have his very own Television show.
It tells the journey of a tween named Max Keeble (Linz) who is entering the dreaded middle school with his friends Robe (Peck) and Megan (Grey).Max learns that his favorite animal shelter he helps out at is closing, bullies at school only grow meaner when the grade gets higher, his corrupt Principal Jindrake (Miller) is up to no good, and the ice cream man won't stop harassing children.Man, Max has a ton on his plate.
And on top of that he may be moving to Chicago and he desperately wants to win the heart of a Freshman girl who is carelessly ripped from other better kids films.This is another one of those teenage films where the lead character treats middle school like the depths of hell.
Max Keeble's Big Move is truly harmless, but redundant, and at a mere eighty-six minutes it doesn't capture the "big move" too well as much as it captures ones chaotic, over-exaggerated journey through middle school.One last thought; I always wondered if movie characters are aware of other films.
Linz plays Max Keeble, a paperboy entering Curtis Junior High School, who thinks 7th Grade is going to be a fresh start and easy entry to coolness.
His two geeky friends are the proudly grotesque "Robe" played by Nickelodeon comic-relief Josh Peck, and Megan(Zena Grey), a girl with a clarinet and a crush on Max. Unfortunately, he finds the promise of a fresh start is a false promise when he and his friends are attacked by two bullies -- Troy McGinty(Noel Fisher), and Dobbs(Orlando Brown, in his second villain role).
You guessed it, he punishes Max, rather than the kid who threw him there, just like many school faculty members do in real life.
At first he hates the idea, but then realizes that he can use it to take advantage of his tormentors, from McGinty to Dobbs to Jindraike, to a local ice cream vendor with a grudge against him for getting the health department on his case.This movie is quite a rarity for kid-flicks, because instead of suggesting so-called "alternatives" to handling bullies, it proudly advocates revenge.
If you're looking for a jock-bashing movie, don't look here.Of course the whole story turns upside down just before Max finds out the Keebles aren't moving to Chicago after all, and he has to save Megan & Robe from the people who kept victimizing all of them.
One thing that bothers me most about this movie is that Max thinks he should take responsibility for what McGinty, Dobbs, and Jindraike do to the kids in school and the nearby animal shelter, when he really shouldn't.
Max Keeble's Big Move is a funny movie for kids.
I think that because of it's comedy and the features of it, it is a fantastic movie for kids!
One of my favorite parts in the movie is where Max (Alex D.
Linz) gets back at all of his enemies, like the Ice Cream Man (Jamie Kennedy), Troy McGinty (Noel Fisher), The Principal Elliot T.
I love it, it is one of my favorite movies to watch!...Max Keeble's Big Move..
There are a lot of jokes that little kids may not understand as well as teenagers and adults would.It teaches the kids that if you stand up to the bullies and talk w/ them they will eventually back down or they will continue to torment you, but will get hit in the face w/ the same kind of treatment later if life.Adult reviewers on this website are always bad-mouthing kids movies.What do you expect?!?!?!?
i think most of that has to do with alex d linz he is a real good actor with out him this movie would have been just so-so.
Of the main characters, Alex Linz (Max) was the only one that gave a good performance, the others sounded kind of fake.
The jokes fall flat on their face, the evil ice-cream man is just plain dumb, the story is a jumbled mess, the 9th grade dream girls look like they're in their 20's, 'Lil Romeo's 'lil cameo is silly, and alas, Max Keeble just isn't cute enough.
This movie needs a serious rewrite to take advantage of potentially fun characters like the principal and Max's gross-out slob best friend Robe.
As I missed the beginning, I waited less than one hour (reading the Jedi making-of paperback) and I caught it for good at the Disney+1 channel.It was indeed a great movie: the kids were very good as well as the adult cast.
Max Keeble's Big Move is one of the worst live action films that the Walt Disney Company has produced.
Funny how the movies that were the most successful around Eisner's time were The Emperor's New Groove, Brother Bear, Home on the Range, Lilo and Stitch, Chicken Little and this film.Just to watch Larry Miller (The Nutty Professor) as a an evil school principal and Jaime Kennedy as the evil ice cream man is one of the worst roles these two talented actors were forced to do.
Are they trying to say that, much like in the movie, school isn't a safe place to be; that the teachers are complete morons and that they can't identify bullies when they strike others?
Linz avoids being an annoying cute kid; yes he is a bit irritating but mostly his performance is good and he is likable and easy to watch.
Grey and Pack are nice in support but I specifically enjoyed the turns from the two guys playing the main bullies  their characters were cool and they were good.Overall, an enjoyable kids film that is filled with noise and energy.
A boy who thinks he is moving to another state takes revenge on all the bullies who have made his life hell, but when he finds out he's not going anywhere after all, he must face the consequences..Somewhere in the debris of this movie is a typical Disney moral about staying true to oneself and realising who your real friends are.
Max Keeble's Big Move, was actually a pretty decent movie, to my surprise.Basically, it's the whole junior high school scene.
Linz) is starting junior high school, with his two best friends Megan (Zena Grey) and Robe (Josh Peck.) He has a mean principal (Larry Miller) who is very selfish and hates the animal shelter next to the school.
My kids have this movie so I figured I would sit down and watch it with them.
Max is a kid with a couple good friends who finds out that he's moving.
This movie is a good family movie to sit down and watch with your kids.
i loved Max Keebles big move enough for me to buy it so that i can watch it ova and ova and Alex D.
Linz is soooo kool in it.This movie is really great and well worse seeing but some adults may not enjoy it very much becoz this is a disney kids movie....
It's a movie that both adults, as well as kids can enjoy.
It's a movie that both adults, as well as kids can enjoy.
Max Keeble's Big Move is meant to be stupid 8-12 year old fun, and I suppose on that level kids can go see it and have fun, but for some of them, and all of the people older than the target audience, will definitely get impatient with this movie which gives junior high schoolers more credit than they're worth.
For instance, there is a part when Max Keeble has to put up with the school bully who was once his friend, but now is a doofus who doesn't get higher than a D-, but then how can he so cleverly find ways to humiliate him (and even Max, who might be given too much smarts in the movie, is smart enough to strike back later on)?
This film also possesses the rare quality that really good movies have the emotional high point and low point are next to each other (Not the climax and denouement this is a purely visceral observation and it's only my opinion) Anyway, "Max Keeble's Big Move" is a really wonderful surprise and in short a blast..
Good, fun, over the top kids' film.
I think the film has to be seen for what it is - a good, fun, over the top kids film.
If you're expecting something reasonably suitable for adults, you will be disappointed.For those who are unaware, the film is about a boy (Max) who finds out he's moving house & uses it to take revenge on those who have bullied him.
He then finds out he's not moving &, having "forgotten" to attend his going away party with his friends, has to make amends with everyone & still deal with the bullies.There are some good solid performances in this film, particularly from Alex Linz (Max), Zena Grey (Megan) & Larry Miller (Principal Jindraike).
This movie is making kids dumb!
This movie was a plotless, humorous, and bad-acted film.