Max Keeble's Big Move is a 2001 Disney live-action comedy film, starring Alex D. Linz as the main character with Zena Grey, Josh Peck, Larry Miller, Jamie Kennedy, Robert Carradine and Nora Dunn and directed by Tim Hill. It was released to American theaters on October 5, 2001. This movie has several cameos from all different shows.
Plot
Max Keeble (Alex D. Linz), the main protagonist, is a junior-high school paperboy, who delivers newspapers to people around town. Max has a huge crush on Jenna (Brooke Anne Smith), the daughter of one of his paper recipients. Max has 2 best friends: Robert (known as "Robe" to all of the kids of the school) (Josh Peck) and Megan (Zena Grey), and all three of them are constantly bullied by Troy McGinty (Noel Fisher) and Dobbs (Orlando Brown).
Max is enemies with the school principal, Principal Elliot T. Jindraike (Larry Miller), as well as the Evil Ice Cream Man (Jamie Kennedy).
When Max finds out that he is moving to Chicago after his father, Donald "Don" Keeble (Robert Carradine), gets a promotion, he plots revenge on Jindraike, Troy, Dobbs, and the Evil Ice Cream Man, believing that when they try to retaliate, he will be gone.
However, once Max's missions are completed, Don announces that he quit his job, and is starting his own business, meaning that they are not moving after all.
Max freaks out at this news, but later, sees that no matter who you are, you can always stand up for yourself.
Max then confronts Jindraike, Troy, and Dobbs one final time, and with the help of Robe, Megan, and the entire school, defeats Troy and Dobbs for good, and Jindrake gets fired for fiddling with the budget.
The film ends with Max riding on his bicycle, delivering newspapers, and then, the Evil Ice Cream Man starts chasing Max again.
Notes about the Movie
This movie is never released on IMAX Theaters. It is the first of Walt Disney's live action movies ever released on Home Video to be not close captioned by Captions Inc, but by the National Captioning Institute. [[Media: == sex
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Critical reception
Despite outstanding reviews from child viewers, Max Keeble's Big Move was met with negative to mixed feedback from adult critics and watchers. Rotten Tomatoes currently gives the film a 26% "rotten" rating on its site. The consensus stating "fun for kids, but bland and unoriginal for adults."
Trivia
- Megan played a bit of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" on her clarinet to call the band to stand up to the bullies, then the whole band played the song.
- Lil' Romeo didn't appear in the lunchfight scene because his father Master P didn't let him.
- After Max finds out that he's moving, the next scene where Max, Meg,and Robert are in the junkyard, Robert warns Max and his parents to watch out for car jacks and that he saw it on 20-20 and that is why they call it the Motor City. This is a wrong statement because Chicago is called The Windy City (Max correctly refers to Chicago to it's proper nickname shortly after being sent out of class), and Detroit is the Motor City. Also the TV Series 20-20 never did a story about car jackers in Detroit.
- In Max's flashback about how the Bullies are plaguing the school, there was a scene where Megan tells Dobbs that she keeps all of her money in a piggy bank that "looks just like him." This was left over from a deleted scene where Dobbs asks Megan for her lunch money and she refuses (by sarcastically telling him the line above), thus resulting in Dobbs stealing her clarinet from her locker as retribution.
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