History Film / MaxKeeblesBigMove

* BadJobWorseUniform: Max's dad is an ad man, and his boss dresses him up in ridiculous costumes to secure clients.

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* 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.

It's [[HighSchoolHustler Max Keeble]]'s first day of junior high, and things are going badly. Over the course of the day, he is accosted by not one, not two, not three, but ''four'' separate bullies: an evil Ice Cream man, thuggish brute Troy McGinty, entrepreneurial lunch-money thief Dobbs, and the malevolent (and stupid) school principal, Elliot Jindrake, who wants to pave over an animal shelter so he can build a football stadium. To top it all off, when Max gets home, his dad announces that his MeanBoss has assigned him a new post in Chicago: By the end of the week, the family has to move.

It's [[HighSchoolHustler Max Keeble]]'s first day of junior high, and things are going badly. Over the course of the day, he is accosted by not one, not two, not three, but ''four'' separate bullies: an evil Ice Cream man, a thuggish brute, an entrepreneurial lunch-money thief, and the malevolent (and stupid) school principal Jindrake, who wants to pave over an animal shelter so he can build a football stadium. To top it all off, when Max gets home, his dad announces that his MeanBoss has assigned him a new post in Chicago: By the end of the week, the family has to move.

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Wherein Jindrake reveals that he embezzled the school funds to finance his football stadium due in part to Max Keeble turning on the announcement camera without him knowing. After Max stops him from destroying the animal shelter, Jindraike is fired and faces criminal charges for embezzlement.

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

* ActOfTrueLove: When Max’s gorgeous crush Jenna invites him to a party but realizes how rude she is to his best friend Megan, he realizes his crush isn’t as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside and Max turns Jenna down claiming he’s meeting “somebody” referring to Megan.

* AlmightyJanitor: The school janitor, Anthony, becomes one when he [[spoiler:locks Jindrake into the storage room out of revenge 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.

* MeanBoss: [[TheGhost Mr. Keeble's boss]] forces him to wear ridiculous costumes in advertising pitches (and in one deleted scene, at least one of the costumes actually have the capacity of hurting the actor, then says he has to move to Chicago in a week or be fired.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Evil Ice Cream Man wanted to kill or at the very least maim Max just because Max's mom called the Health Department and nailed him after Max was unluckily enough to discover a cockroach in his Ice Cream.

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

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Evil Ice Cream Man may intend to either kill Max Keeble or at the very least maim him in retribution for discovering a cockroach in his ice cream that presumably got him in deep trouble with the health administration, yet even he objects to someone like Dobbs stealing students money, especially if they are potential customers.

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

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Troy [=McGinty=] ''almost'' becomes one once we learn that he was traumatized as a child by the sight of Max's father dressed as a bizarre cartoon character."Almost" because that certainly doesn't justify his being a complete JerkAss a decade later.

* KarmaHoudini: The Yearbook guys, given the fact that they were as much bullying as Troy [=McGinty=] and Dobbs were since their primary use of their journalism skills was to essentially take pictures of the students in embarassing or traumatizing situations (and even make innocent pictures seem a lot worse with their choice of titles, i.e. "How's this: 'Sheep arrive for slaughter'" on the very first day of school), and unlike Troy, Dobbs, Jindrake, or even the Evil Ice Cream Man, they still haven't received their comeuppance by the end of the movie.

** Jenna, the AlphaBitch has one that plays every time she appears. It's the intro to Britney Spears' "...Baby, One More Time"

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Part of Max's revenge on Dobbs and the Ice Cream Man were stealing something important to both of them, and then giving the stolen item to the opposite party, and arranging a meeting. Both Dobbs and the Ice Cream Man are arrogant and domineering in their own ways, so Max knew that the two of them would only make things worse for themselves. All in all, a fairly clever BatmanGambit.

** 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."

* 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 one of his ice cream producs. Predictably, it fails.

** Not to mention that even when the only possible reason for building it -- to land himself a promotion from the Superintendent Bobby "Crazy Legs" Knebworth, 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:
-->'''Jindrake:''' So I fiddled with the budget. Fiddlesticks, it's my budget. So we don't have enough science textbooks, big deal, Science is for nerds. Not enough band instruments, who cares?! Band is for losers! So the Janitor has to work without pay... he should pay ''me'' for the privilege!

* PowerTrio: With Max, Robe, and Megan.

* RealityEnsues: As soon as Max learns [[spoiler:he's not going to move away after all [[CrossingTheBurntBridge he realizes now he has to deal with the consequences of his actions]] from getting revenge on the bullies who execute RevengeByProxy on his friends.]]

* MeanBoss: [[TheGhost Mr. Keeble's boss]] forces him to wear ridiculous costumes in advertising pitches (and in one deleted scene, at least one of the costumes actually have the capacity of hurting the actor]], then says he has to move to Chicago in a week or be fired. Principal Jindrake plays the part very well.
* TheMovingExperience: Variation, as Max's family really ''is'' moving away, but [[spoiler:his dad decides to quit his job, so they end up not moving after all]].

* 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.

* RunningGag: Robe's willingness to eat anything; Jindrake's poor mastery of the English language and him forgetting to turn off the camera (at first); the Yearbook guys, just to name a few

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Troy [=McGinty=] ''almost'' becomes one once we learn that he was traumatized as a child by the sight of Max's father dressed as a bizarre cartoon character. I say "almost" because that certainly doesn't justify his being a complete JerkAss a decade later.

* KarmaHoudini: The Yearbook guys, given the fact that they were as much bullying as Troy [=McGinty=] and Dobbs were since their primary use of their journalism skills was to essentially take pictures of the students in embarassing or traumatising situations (and even make innocent pictures seem a lot worse with their choice of titles, i.e. "How's this: 'Sheep arrive for slaughter'" on the very first day of school), and unlike Troy, Dobbs, Jindrake, or even the Evil Ice Cream Man, they still haven't received their comeuppance by the end of the movie.

* KidsAreCruel: Max decides to PayEvilUntoEvil and become a BullyHunter once he thinks there will be no consequences to his actions. Even with that in mind, the kids do things like cause a massive mess and embezzle from their teachers.

* LastDayToLive: The first two acts of the film is this, albeit a LighterAndSofter version. Max is moving away within the week, and thus believes he has free reign to do whatever he wants to his school. The last third of the movie is [[spoiler:cleaning up the mess Max made when it's revealed his family isn't moving after all, and he has to start CrossingTheBurntBridge]].

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Part of Max's revenge on Dobbs and the Ice Cream Man were stealing something important to both of them, and then giving the stolen item to the opposite party, and arranging a meeting. Both Dobbs and the Ice Cream Man are both arrogant and domineering in their own ways, so Max knew that the two of them would only make things worse for themselves. All in all, a fairly clever BatmanGambit.

* AlphaBitch: Jenna; Max Keeble's crush, and his best friend Megan's worst enemy. Played with in that Jenna is more of a BrainlessBeauty who's so shallow that she doesn't realize she's being mean.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Max briefly falls hard for Jenna, the blonde and leggy AlphaBitch freshman student that all the guys drool over. Whenever this character appears, she is accompanied by the intro of Britney Spear's "...Baby, One More Time."
** And then, of course, there's the "pheromones" subplot.
** When the attractive science teacher is going on about pheromones and the [[SomethingElseAlsoRises Bunson Burners light up as she walks by]].

* WritersCannotDoMath: 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.

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** Not to mention that even when the only possible reason for building it (to land himself a promotion from the Superintendent Bobby "Crazy Legs" Knebworth, 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:

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

-->"This is completely without precedent. Not only that, but it's never happened before!"

* HeelRealization: Max, after speaking with the janitor.
--> '''Max''': It took [[AlmightyJanitor a man with a plunger]] to make me realize that I had to do something. I thought I'd stood up to the bullies, but all I'd really done was hit and run. That's not courage. That's ex-courage.

* IncrediblyLamePun: "See you bassoon!" Max even lampshades how bad of a pun it was by saying "'See you bassoon'? ehh... stupid."

** Dobbs has the song "If Everybody Looked the Same" (the one that has this lyric that is said really fast as part of the opening.)

* RussianGuySuffersMost: Inverted: A student named "Vladimir" (which is a Russian name, which implies Russian descent) was intended to be one of the victims to Troy [=McGinty=]'s bullying routine (he had his name written on his shirt in a way similar to a gash), but unlike Max Keeble or Robe, the other on-screen victims, Vladimir ran off before [=McGinty=] could get the chance to deal the pain.

-->'''Jindrake:''' My, you're a smart little boy... But so am I.

* TrappedInContainment: [=McGinty=], when picking Robe as the second kid to bully in the school year, places Robe in a glass case (presumably some sort of trophy case). Made even worse due to the fact that Robe is severely claustrophobic, and just as Max Keeble is alerting the students about his condition after freeing him, he throws up from the trauma (the contents apparently being a Chili Omelet, given Robe's comment shortly after hurling).

* 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 "If you bully them, you will be just like them!"]], he tells them to let the bullies go, which, of course, they do-- and let them fall into the dumpster themselves.

** The foreign football players are apparently young enough to be students, though they look more like they're in their early 20s, one of them even has a beard.

* 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 his secretary usually telling him that the camera 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).

* ZanyScheme: The various plots to ruin the bullies-- stealing Dobbs' PDA, melting the Evil Ice Cream Man's supply ice cream, terrorizing Troy with a mascot of a children's TV show, and setting Jindrake up for a HumiliationConga.

* AlphaBitch: Jenna; 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.)

* KidsAreCruel

* LastDayToLive: The first two acts 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
** by "sort of" it is because it was justified, considering how he ditched her earlier as a direct result of deciding to attend [[AlphaBitch Jenna's]] party instead of the going away party that Robe and Megan were holding, and felt guilty when he found out.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Jenna, the AlphaBitch has one that plays every time she appears. Unsurprisingly, it's the intro to Britney Spears' "...Baby, One More Time"
** Jenna's not the only one who has a Leitmotif. Actually, a few of the major characters have one as well. Dobbs, for example, has the song "If Everybody Looked the Same" (the one that has this lyric that is said really fast as part of the opening.)

* ToiletHumor: Robe getting sick due to his claustrophobia springs to mind

** He has it easy compared to [=McGinty=] when he was trapped in a Gym with its power cut with [=MacGoogles=]. The guy was in such a massive emotional and mental wreck that he was huddled in a corner quivering while in a fetal position, barely even able to speak, and was also implied to be in dire need of psychological counseling in a manner similar to having to deal with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Max is depressed at first, but quickly realizes that, [[TheUnfettered with no fear of retribution]], he can exact revenge on the bullies. He and his best friends Robe (a chubby kid who always wears a robe) and Megan organize a series of [[ZanyScheme zany plots]] to give the bullies what's coming to them. Of course, this being the movies, things don't go exactly as planned, and Max eventually has to [[CrossingTheBurntBridge fix what he's broken]] and stand up to his oppressors once and for all.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the BullyHunter. Once he realizes there would seemingly be no consequences, Max goes on a spree of chaos throughout the school to get back at [=Troy McGinty=], Dobbs, and Jindrake. However, Max soon learns that the consequences will instead target other things close to him like his friends or a local animal shelter he frequents. The bullies aren't forced into a TookALevelInKindness and simply get furious as soon as they figure out who was behind their misfortunes.

* RealityEnsues: As soon Max learns he's not going to move away after all [[CrossingTheBurntBridge he realizes now he has to deal with the consequences of his actions]] from getting revenge on the bullies who execute RevengeByProxy on his friends.

* RealityEnsues: As so Max learns he's not going to move away after all [[CrossingTheBurntBridge he realizes now he has to deal with the consequences of his actions]] from getting revenge on the bullies who execute RevengeByProxy on his friends.

* RealityEnsues: As so Max learns he's not going to move away after all [[CrossingTheBurntBridge he realizes now has to deal with the consequences of his actions]] from getting revenge on the bullies who and execute RevengeByProxy on his friends.