History Film / MaxKeeblesBigMove

* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[Film/TheNuttyProfessor first time]] that Larry Miller portrayed a JerkAss school administrator (or being humiliated by a rodent, for that matter).

* DeanBitterman: The deluded and tyrannical Principal Elliot T. Jindrake. He's played by Larry Miller, who coincidentally also played a bitter dean in ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor''.

A live action Disney flick from 2001, directed by Tim Hill (who went on to make the CGI ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') and co-written by Jonathan Bernstein (who went on to write the novel ''Literature/{{Hottie}}''). The characters and plot are very predictable, but it's got some witty lines and great performances, especially from its young actors and Larry Miller, who serve up several slices of LargeHam. If you can ignore some of the toilet humour and the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] vibes, it's actually a pretty funny movie.

* [[YouFailBiologyForever You Fail Mathematics Forever]]: Jindrake, during his assembly, tells them that he's improving the school's zero tolerance policy to one of subzero tolerance, which is more than zero. However, sub-zero is actually a number even less than zero; in other words, a negative number.

** Before his fame, underground rapper Hopsin appears as an extra in Jenna's milkshake party. He's in the background wearing a #34 baskeyball jersey

** Then again, given the fact that she had Max write a 2000 word essay (and eventually have 12,000) due on Friday just because he was late and dripping (which he couldn't even help due to Troy [=McGinty=] putting him through a swirly.), and simply let Dobbs steal Max's lunch money and get away with it, [[AssholeVictim she kind of deserved it]].

* CallingCard: One of the bullies, Troy [=McGinty=], shows everyone who he intends to bully for the day by wearing a coat, to which he promptly unzips to show a shirt with the victim of the day's name that is written in such a way to resemble a word carved into the body. Max Keeble, when getting back at [=McGinty=], even does a variation of [=McGinty=]'s modus operatum that has a spraypaint streak across his shirt with his name in white letter that he displays to the school before enacting revenge against him.

** Tony Hawk's appearance can be excused as being [[AllJustADream a part of Max's dream]].

* ChekhovsSkill: Max's paperboy aim

* ComicallySmallBribe: Variation: The Evil Ice Cream Man doesn't even attempt to use money to bribe his way out of a speeding ticket, but instead uses a Snow Doodle. Predictably, it fails.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When accepting Jenna's invitation to a milkshake party at buddies (under the promise of nine (actually one) milkshakes), he is being cheered on by various other students when downing his ninth shake in a very similar manner to a binge drinking contest for a WildTeenParty.
** Also, Both during and after [=McGinty=] being terrorized by "[=MacGoogles=]" in a black-outed and shut in gym, his reaction is almost similar to a rape victim.

** Max briefly falls hard for the blonde, leggy AlphaBitch freshman student that all the guys drool over. Whenever this character appears, she is accompanied by the opening strains of Britney Spear's "Baby One More Time."
** And then, of course, there's the hilarious "pheromones" subplot.

* GroinAttack: When Jindrake is trying to give Crazy Legs a tour of the school as per the inspection, due to unknowingly ingesting Animal Pheronomes from his mouth spray, a squirrel finds Jindrake and attempts to find his mate due to the pheronomes within Jindrake, and... well, let's just say that the Squirrel eventually finds a certain area to test his teeth on.

* IronicEcho: Sort of. [[spoiler:"I was just running away from my problems, and that's not courage. That [[{{Malaproper}} excourage]]."]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: Surprisingly, the AlphaBitch has one that plays every time she appears. Unsurprisingly, it's the intro to Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time"

* NoodleIncident: In the second half, when Don Keeble explains that they won't be moving, he mentioned that he quit and "gave Fodge a dose of his own medicine." Exactly how he did so was never explained, although it is implied that he may have somehow gotten Fodge to wear one of the dorkish costumes.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Superintendent Knebworth seems to legitimately care about the kids learning and well being, expressing shock that Jindrake, when revealing his plans in regards to building the football stadium, admitted that he actually cut back on "unimportant" things such as fire-extinguishers and milk. It is also subtly implied that he doesn't actually like Jindrake or think he is a good candidate as a successor for the role of superintendent, but has to put up with him, anyways.

* SquirrelsInMyPants: At one point, thanks to Jindrake unknowingly spraying animal pheronomes into his mouth (Max had rigged his breath spray supply with mating pheromones), a squirrel enters the library and crawls all over Jindrake, eventually culminating in the squirrel giving Jindrake an implied groin attack before it leaves due to Jindrake crashing into the other room, all while the superintendent is observing the library without any notice.

* ToThePain: Jindrake, threatening Max with a new form of punishment he calls "The Keeble." Which thankfully never got a chance to be implemented. Then again, maybe it did, assuming his locking Keeble within the janitor's closet was supposed to be the punishment in question.

* TooDumbToLive: The ending where Jindrake ends up drawing all of the animals to himself when attempting to destroy the Animal shelter by using his mouthspray. Jindrake, you'd think that by now you'd at least put two-and-two together in regards to the connections between the animals reacting and you using the spray, since it has occured at least twice before (three times before if one counts a deleted scene where, shortly after Jindrake does a mouthspray during his tour of the school for the Superintendent, a dog escapes from a woman's car and proceeds to attack his pants leg.)

* TwoTimerDate: Of the third category, where Max goes to a milkshake party with Jenna's friends instead of the Going Away Party held by Robe and Megan. See WhatTheHellHero below.

* UnhandThemVillain: At the end of the movie, the three giant exchange students offer to throw the school bullies in a dumpster. After Max insists IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim, he tells them to "let the bullies go," which, of course, they do-- and let them fall into the dumpster themselves. Also, just as Principal Jindrake is about to run his big bulldozer over a poor defenseless animal, Max jumps in front of it and says: "Not today, Jindraike. That's far enough."

* VillainousBreakdown: Dobbs utterly ''goes to pieces'' when his palm pilot is stolen.

* WalkingTechbane: Jindrake. To put it simply, whenever he attempts to make the announcements via telemonitor, he usually ends them when pressing the button to turn off the camera, only for it to turn out that he didn't actually turn it off, and usually humiliates himself in the process (First instance is when he, while bragging about himself in a manner to a movie review, ended up exposing that he was actually faking his image as President of the United States and even being near Washington, and the second instance had him sticking pencils up his nose and referring to himself as a walrus [although this part may have been intentional]), with Rangoon, his secretary, usually telling him that the camera, or rather, the red light, is still on. He does eventually manage to figure it out, though (apparently, he needs to press the button twice for it to turn off).

* WhatTheHellHero: On the last day before the move, Max accepted Jenna's invitation to have a Milkshake party at Buddies, when he was supposed to go to a going away party held by Megan and Robe. Suffice to say, as soon as they found out about this, they weren't pleased.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Big brute of a bully Troy is ''terrified'' of a Barney-like Scottish frog named [=MacGoogles=] (The trauma was made even worse when Mr. Keeble tries to reveal that he's actually [=MacGoogles=], not because of it's an adult playing the role, but because he actually thought that [=MacGoogles=] ''ate'' Mr. Keeble). He eventually manages to get over it, after the School Nurse attempts to help him eliminate the psychological trauma of the event.

* YoungEntrepreneur: Bully Dobbs is a Wall Street-smart kid who decides to regain his lost millions by stealing lunch money on the pretence that he's "investing" it.
* ZanyScheme: The various plots to ruin the bullies-- stealing Dobbs' palm pilot, melting the Evil Ice Cream Man's ice cream, terrorizing Troy with a giant frog, and setting Jindrake up for a HumiliationConga.

* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[Film/TheNuttyProfessor first time]] that Larry Miller portrayed a JerkAss school administrator, or being humiliated by a rodent, for that matter.

* AlmightyJanitor: The school janitor becomes one when he [[spoiler:locks Jindrake into the storage room after learning the principal cut his overtime pay.]] He also give Max the advice he needs to make amends, and a lesson of how to truly be a man.

* AlphaBitch: Max Keeble's crush, and his best friend Megan's worst enemy. (To be fair, she's really more of a BrainlessBeauty who's so shallow that she doesn't realize she's being mean.)

** Not to mention that even when the only possible reason for building it (to land himself a promotion from the Superintendent "Crazy Legs," which not only failed, but any chances of his ever becoming superintendent was sunk beyond any chance of recovery [as a deleted scene revealed]) was no longer viable, he still intends to demolish the animal shelter anyways. Then there is the fact that, while (unknowingly) confessing to the entire school that he fiddled with the budget, he not only does so without any regret, but he also even went as far as to insult the classes, faculty and staff, as evidenced by the quote below:

** Then again, given the fact that she had Max write a 2000 word essay (and eventually have 12,000) due on Friday just because he was late and dripping (which he couldn't even help due to Troy [=McGinty=] putting him through a swirlie.), and simply let Dobbs steal Max's lunch money and get away with it, [[AssholeVictim she kind of deserved it]].
* BullyHunter: Max spends the movie getting back at [[TheBully Dobbs, Troy]], and [[SadistTeacher Jindrake]]. It's deconstructed since it only ''angers'' the people he bullied, and since he was supposedly moving away, he made his two best friends targets of the former two, and caused Jindrake's RevengeByProxy. After speaking with the janitor, he realizes all he did was [[DirtyCoward hit and run]] rather than deal with the people who bullied him constructively.
* CallingCard: One of the Bullies, Troy [=McGinty=], shows everyone who he intends to bully for the day by wearing a coat, to which he promptly unzips to show a shirt with the victim of the day's name that is written in such a way to resemble a word carved into the body. Max Keeble, when getting back at [=McGinty=], even does a variation of [=McGinty=]'s modus operatum that has a spraypaint streak across his shirt with his name in white letter that he displays to the school before enacting revenge against him.
* {{Cameo}}: Several, the most ridiculous being L'il Romeo. (Tony Hawk's appearance, at least, can be explained away as being AllJustADream.)

* CharacterBlog: Max Keeble, Troy [=McGinty=], and Jenna (full name Jenna Smith) each have a facebook page recently created about them.

* ChildHater: Principal Jindrake, who refers to his students as acne-scarred riff-raff. You have to wonder just how this a**hole got his job, anyway.

** Also, Both during and after [=McGinty=] being terrorized by "[=MacGoogles=]" in a blackouted and shut in gym, his reaction is almost similar to a rape victim.

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Wherein Jindrake reveals that he cut school funds to finance his football stadium due in part to Max Keeble turning on the announcement camera without him knowing.

* FoodFight: Theres nothing like the sweet taste of rebelious freedom in school.

* HighSchoolHustler: Max, well, kind of as he is a ''Junior'' High school student. One of the complaints about the movie was it was unoriginal and that Max is a preteen ripoff of the more famous hustler [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]].
* HongKongDub: When Max goes into his "kung fu" stance

* LastDayToLive: About two thirds of the film is this; the rest is [[spoiler:cleaning up the mess Max made when it's revealed his family isn't moving after all]].
* LastMinuteHookup: Max/ Megan sort of comes out of nowhere

* LovableJock: The three foreign exchange students were almost twice as big as McGinty and Dobbs, but they seemed friendly enough, even helping the other kids throw the bullies into the dumpster.

* PowerTrio
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Superintendent seems to legitimately care about the kids learning and well being, expressing shock that Jindrake, when revealing his plans in regards to building the stadium, admitted that he actually cut back on "unimportant" things such as fire-extinguishers and milk. It is also subtly implied that he doesn't actually like Jindrake or think he is a good candidate for ascendency for his retirement, but has to put up with him, anyways.

* RunningGag: Robe's willingness to eat anything, Jindrake's poor mastery of the English language, Jindrake forgetting to turn off the camera (at first), the newspaper guys...

* SadistTeacher: Jindrake. Well, technically he's more like a Sadist Principal, but still.
* ShowSomeLeg: Jenna subtlely seduces Max into coming with her to a party.

* SquirrelsInMyPants: At one point, thanks to Jindrake unknowingly spraying animal pheronomes into his mouth (Max had rigged his breath spray supply with mating pheronomes), a squirrel enters the library and crawls all over Jindrake, eventually cumulating in the squirrel giving Jindrake an implied groin attack before it leaves due to Jindrake crashing into the other room, all while the superintendent is observing the library without any notice.
* TheTroubleWithTickets: The Evil Ice Cream Man ends up being pulled over by a policeman while chasing down Max Keeble for speeding and presumably attempted manslaughter. The EICM then tries to get out of the situation by bribing the Policeman with a Snow-Doodle. Going by what happens immediately thereafter, the Policeman didn't accept the bribe.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Jindrake embodies this,

* VagueAge: Troy McGinty appears to be about Max's age in a flashback when they were preschool age, but present day he appears to be a few years older. It's also implied that he had been attending the school already where this was Max's first year.

* VillainousFriendship: McGinty and Dobbs do their bullying separately, though this doesn't stop them from being civil and even friendly to each other.

* AlmostKiss: During his dream, Max meets up with Jenna and hands her her paper. She asks what took him so long, implying they may be a couple in the dream. After Max replies that he stopped for ice cream, Jenna leans towards him, puckering her lips up to kiss Max. They are interrupted by the Ice Cream who shoots a ball of ice cream at Jenna, causing Max to wake up from his dream.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: basically the plot of the movie.

* BookEnds: Meta-example: The filming of the movie started with Alex Linz going into the ventilation shaft when shooting the scene of Max and his friends breaking into the school. The filming of the movie concluded with Linz exiting the ventilation shaft.

* AlmostKiss: During his dream, Max meets up with Jenna and hands her her paper. She asks what took him so long, implying they may be a couple in the dream. After Max replies that he stopped for ice cream, Jenna leans towards hims, puckering her lips up to kiss Max. They are interrupted by the Ice Cream who shoots a ball of ice cream at Jenna, causing Max to wake up from his dream.

* AllJustADream: The beginning of the film.

* MsFanservice: Jenna and is usually seen tight cleavage revealing tops, tight pants and short skirts. Not to mention she's about three years older than Max and his friends.

* MsFanservice: Jenna. She is older and sexier than the other characters, and is usually seen tight cleavage revealing tops, tight pants and short skirts.

* Ms.Fanservice: Jenna. She is older and sexier than the other characters, and is usually seen tight cleavage revealing tops, tight pants and short skirts.

* Ms. Fanservice: Jenna. She is older and sexier than the other characters, and is usually seen tight cleavage revealing tops, tight pants and short skirts.

* ShowingSomeLeg: Jenna subtlely seduces Max into coming with her to a party.

* CatchPhrase: "CEASE!"

* DeanBitterman: The deluded and tyrannical Principal Elliot T. Jindrake. He's played by Larry Miller, who coincidentally also played a bitter dean in TheNuttyProfessor.

* MissingTrailerScene: In the trailer, Jindrake falls out of his chair during the scene where he has Max in his office. The scene still appears in the film, but the part with Jindrake falling out of his chair is absent.