Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)

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70	Variety Joe Leydon Surprisingly amusing.
70	L.A. Weekly Mark Olsen Its overall view of 12-year-old life is essentially one of high-spirited fun.
70	Washington Post 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 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.
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.
40	TV Guide Magazine 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.
33	Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum Garish, squeal-pitched preteen comedy.
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.
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.

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