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63
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54
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53
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53
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52
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52
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51
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49
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48
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47
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47
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46
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45
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43
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43
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43
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37
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36
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35
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35
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34
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27
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Max Keeble's Big Move
Walt Disney Pictures
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Family/Kids
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jonathan Bernstein
Mark Blackwell
James Greer
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Tim Hill
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 18, 2002
Video: June 18, 2002
Theatrical: October 5, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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70
Variety
Joe Leydon
Surprisingly amusing.

70
LA Weekly
Mark Olsen
Its overall view of 12-year-old life is essentially one of high-spirited fun.

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.

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.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Bland, occasionally funny.

63
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
It's the pre-teen set who will revel in the adolescent angst and anarchic high jinks of Max Keeble.
50
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.

50
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
The impulse to shtick it up to burlesque-level inanity is encouraged at every turn.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is the kind of movie one enjoys more at 8, or even 12, than at 16 and up.

40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
A shamelessly derivative, if basically likeable, kid's picture.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The real shocker is how many grown men it took to conceive and write this lamebrained tale.

38
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.

33
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Garish, squeal-pitched preteen comedy.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
A frenetic affair, busy and silly enough to make family froth like "The Princess Diaries" look like Grand Illusion.

30
The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
This clunky juvenile comedy lurches among multiple story lines without fully realizing the comic potential of any.

30
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.

25
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.

20
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.
20
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The writers must have racked their brains for the formula: two parts other movies to one part childhood revenge fantasies


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