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Max Keeble's Big Move
Metascore
40 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 19
  3. Negative: 9 out of 19
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  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    70
    Its overall view of 12-year-old life is essentially one of high-spirited fun.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    70
    Surprisingly amusing.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Jane Horwitz
    70
    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.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    63
    It's the pre-teen set who will revel in the adolescent angst and anarchic high jinks of Max Keeble.
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  5. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Christine Dolen
    63
    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.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    63
    Bland, occasionally funny.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    It is the kind of movie one enjoys more at 8, or even 12, than at 16 and up.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jan Stuart
    50
    The impulse to shtick it up to burlesque-level inanity is encouraged at every turn.
  9. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    50
    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.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Steve Simels
    40
    A shamelessly derivative, if basically likeable, kid's picture.
  11. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    It's just a setup for another bad sight gag that ends up where the script itself belongs, in the trash.
  12. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    The real shocker is how many grown men it took to conceive and write this lamebrained tale.
  13. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    33
    Garish, squeal-pitched preteen comedy.
  14. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Heather Wadowski
    30
    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.
  15. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marrit Ingman
    30
    A frenetic affair, busy and silly enough to make family froth like "The Princess Diaries" look like Grand Illusion.
  16. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    30
    This clunky juvenile comedy lurches among multiple story lines without fully realizing the comic potential of any.
  17. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    A movie like this depends on clever bits and incidents, but there's little invention here to disguise the film's formulaic nature.
  18. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    20
    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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  19. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    20
    The writers must have racked their brains for the formula: two parts other movies to one part childhood revenge fantasies
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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 3 out of 18
  1. MichaelD
    3
    The movie was average to say the least. kids from 6-11 would enjoy it. And to be honest, there were some ok moments but not enought to convince me that this film is good.… Full Review »
  2. ML
    10
    Mr. McGoogles was awesome! It was a great movie and very funny; it had my family room filled with laughter.
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