Max Keeble's Big Move
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: October 5, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick 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
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. Read full review
30
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
This clunky juvenile comedy lurches among multiple story lines without fully realizing the comic potential of any. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe Leydon
Surprisingly amusing. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The real shocker is how many grown men it took to conceive and write this lamebrained tale. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyMark Olsen
Its overall view of 12-year-old life is essentially one of high-spirited fun. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineSteve Simels
A shamelessly derivative, if basically likeable, kid's picture. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldChristine 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
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Garish, squeal-pitched preteen comedy. Read full review
70
Washington PostJane 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
30
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
A frenetic affair, busy and silly enough to make family froth like "The Princess Diaries" look like Grand Illusion. Read full review
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Bland, occasionally funny. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The writers must have racked their brains for the formula: two parts other movies to one part childhood revenge fantasies Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack 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
50
Los Angeles TimesJan Stuart
The impulse to shtick it up to burlesque-level inanity is encouraged at every turn. Read full review
20
Mr. ShowbizCody 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.
30
Film ThreatHeather 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
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It is the kind of movie one enjoys more at 8, or even 12, than at 16 and up. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneLoren King
It's the pre-teen set who will revel in the adolescent angst and anarchic high jinks of Max Keeble.
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