Max Keeble’s Big Move

Max Keeble’s Big Move

What do a birthday cake made by a 3-year-old, a 25-year-old concrete slab that looks like it was poured by a drunk guy and a 12-year-old cutting the grass at two in the morning have in common? They’re probably going to be quite rough and unfinished. The same could be said about Max Keeble’s Big Move.

A blend of dark humor, slapstick and a situational ethics rant like none other, Big Move transports viewers into the surreal landscape of a street smart seventh grader called Max Keeble. Though, to be honest, it has done him a whole lotta good so far. Max rotatess in a seventy degree arc, and there is someone or the other waiting to pick on him.

Matthew, his childhood friend, has bloomed into a skinhead boozer who ‘graphs’ his catch of the day on to his t‐shirt. Dobbs, former millionaire stock operator (won at 10, was done at 12) now earns by picking students’ pockets and charging them for toilet seat usage. Max has to live with either slender model-like teachers, or women that look like a mix between Joan Rivers and a bulldog. Oh, and let’s not forget Principal Jindraike, who is never short of any irony and proclaims “My students are nothing but stepping stones on the staircase of my success.”

Feeling depressed from being beaten to a pulp by school thugs and the principal, Max realizes the best course of action is to blow the school up. Use ‘home alone’ techniques of high encapsulation value and fly to Chicago with his family so that he would never have to face the music. His best friends Megan and Robe named after his favorite jacket, are asked for their assistance because they can be mischievous.

But he is left by his lonesome self in his pursuit of the ‘shady lady’ who is a Britney Spears clone (theme music included). As expected, Max’s elaborate plan goes to waste when he finds out at the very last moment that the one crucial incident everything depended on will not occur at all.

positive elements: Max works against selfish plans of Principal Jindraike of destroying an animal shelter while using the faculties of the school to rope in some personal gains to make it to a higher position at the school. Teacher’s injustice, Max’s father’s cowardice before his superior, and bullies’ viciousness are also featured negatively. The bond of friendship between MaX, Megan and Robe is also characterized as an ideal. The three, though unappealing in popularity, stick together despite their unpopularity.

Max rescues Robe when a bully locks him inside a showcase. Even after she saw Max jumped into a dumpster after his bully, Megan and Robe stick with him. [Spoiler Warning] Max however leaves his friends on the last day of their presence to go dance the night away with a young girl Jenna, however stalls the attempt of Troy and Dobbs to send him to the hospitals, due to his pals. It is also depicted that the courtship between Megan with Max is more shedding romance than the heady romance that Jenna possesses.

sexual content: Jenna’s entry is accompanied by the tune. “Baby One More Time”. Jenna’s sultry personality suggests Britney Spears’ Her skin-tight dresses also do not help. The camera work and the scene designs make her out to be a sexy fashion model. The only man she starts to like, is Max, and only after suichótico provocation. A young and stunning science teacher who is also called Robe tells his students the syllabus for the day. In the video broadcast Max was later to hack, he printed “I’m wearing thong” on the screen in clear letters and yelled it out as there was a scream hanging above him John was here. 766

violent content: Funny sitcom in the genres of Hong Kong kung-fu action meets Malcolm in the Middle. It’s a speed racing cartoon on a slapping spree. The movie starts with a cut that lasts for too long when the Evil Ice Cream Man was trying to knock Max off his bicycle with the help of ice scream scoops, which were coming out of a giant truck ‘cone gun’. They attract. But in the scuffle, each one now has to engage in hand combat. Max gives a hefty strike to the Ice Cream Man’s protected areas with a newspaper, and then, in one move, sends him 20 feet with a chop that’d make heads in The Matrix turn.

Bullies don’t appear to punch their victim but they certainly use physical force or the threat of it very well; Max ends up getting his mud puddle but Matt seems to get thrown in the trash. Max is not the only one who throws a paper after the Evil Ice Cream Man annoys him while Jindraike is delivering papers; Max chuck’s the paper at his face. Max then sets up Dobbs against the Evil Ice Cream Man and this coincidentally leads to a crane where Max dumps hundreds of gallons of ice cream on both the evil ice cream man and Dobbs.

Max also picks on younger kids during his epic retaliation in the school cafeteria during lunch, leading to food being flung everywhere. Jindraike is a principal who is always using breath spray and pheromones, however, he is on there’s a time the pheromones were too powerful, and he was left with a very angry and lustful squirrel biting his groin while other animals chased him around.

Crude or profane language: There’s nothing vulgar, only some foul speech. The Evil Ice Cream Man is insulted by a girl describing him as a fart-knocker. Max cries out when hearing that his family is about to relocate, “This bites”. When two boys indulge in food war, he and Robe make a tuba and leaf blower mustard spray machine, and then shout out: “let me tell you something about this school. It blows!”

Conclusion: Max Keeble’s Big Move is about the same as what MTV’s The Real World is about, which the audience seems to mistake for the real world, Julie high school. Not that it should. But this is well and beyond unfair if such a term can be used. Always sheer thrill. Always heated infatuation. Homework is never assigned. Student rebellions. And children who are in charge of their mother and fathers.

The most troubling element right here is not violence or abusive language, but the morality of the film. Most of the elders in Max’s life are continuously present, pointless idiots or dictators who enforce the law. Principal Jindraike walks around issuing orders, and glares at children, “You there! Stop! Do you think this place is a fun party?” Some children’s possessions and property are even confiscated, for instance, one pupil is seen having his books thrown onto the ground. Max finally arrive to class with a black eye after Troy and Dobbs toilet him and comes and sits late into his class and is now chastised by his teacher.

“But I am sick and tired of seeing my students arrive late and for their uniforms to be soaked,” she said irritably. “And people wonder why there are boundaries set.” In a different setting, Max would get home, tell his father about the unfairness of one of his teachers, and they would conduct a meeting with the school management. But that’s not something Max can do because his mother is lunatic about being the perfect housewife and a decorator, while his father is all the time wearing a lobster costume. So now he thinks that the so called “rules” must now be terminated.

For the first hour of the film, he calls himself the “Restorer of Justice” after throwing a certain teacher’s globe to the floor, disconnecting the telephone so she cannot ring the headmaster, and causing general mayhem. With this way of thinking, the fact that Jindraike is a cheat and a scumbag justify all those destructive violent crimes breaking and entry, criminal damage, larceny, i.e., assault and battery and many sophisticated malicious tricks of peoples.

Indeed, Max does come to the realization that he should change for the better as he is the one who has caused all the mess in the first place. He hastily resolves to heed the advice of a school’ janitor: “Any kid can make a mess. It takes a man to clean it up.” But what exactly is the “cleaning up” that he intends to engage in? Taking the blame for the pranks and a direct confrontation with the wicked headmaster. Not quite a pious change of heart.

Accepting the apology with the private attendant of the headmaster, Max argues out the apology by saying, “I’m really sorry about the cafeteria, but Jindraike cannot do that and get away with it.” Max, when Troy and Dobbs intend to seek fights with two muscular football players above dumpster bin, comes in to save Max and Dobbs.

“We would be just as bad as the goons if we acted in the same way they did,” he begs. Tommy: “What should we do then?” Max: “Let them go.” The hopes of the bullies were for the first time and only time fulfilled and followed. They were taken and happily dropped into the trash, with plenty of other members of their family.

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