Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
Alex D. Linz: Max Keeble
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Quotes
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Max : Do you mind if I hang here for a while, because there's some people after me. I did some stuff. Yeah, you probably... Yeah I'm really sorry about the cafeteria. But Jindraike has no right to do what he's doing, and now my friends are gonna get whaled on because of me, and I can't do anything about it.
Janitor : Any kid can make a mess. Takes a man to clean it up.
[leaves, Max sits alone in the janitor's office]
Max : [narrating] It took 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.
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[last lines]
Megan : He did it!
Robe : All right, Max!
Max : [narrating] Yep, I did it. The animal shelter was safe; the bullies were cooked, and Jindraike got fired for fiddling with the budget. As for me and my friends, well, we were just happy the first week of school was over, now we could chill for the rest of the year.
[Max is riding his bike]
Evil Ice Cream Man : [to Max] I'll get you, Paper Boy!
Max : [narrating] Oh, man!
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Evil Ice Cream Man : [pulls in front of his bike] We meet again paperboy.
[laughs]
Max : [narrating] Okay, Evil Ice Cream man, me - You're wondering why, right?
[Max throws a paper at the Evil Ice Cream Man and pedals off with the Evil Ice Cream Man speeding behind him]
Max : Well, I found a cockroach in my snowcone, my Mom called the Health department and he got nailed. He's been trying to nail me ever since.
Evil Ice Cream Man : [as a Police man on a motorcycle follows him] Dang, the Fuzz! This isn't over, paperboy!
[Cop walks up]
Evil Ice Cream Man : Hello officer... Snow doodle?
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Dobbs : Keeble! Caught your act at the assembly. Looks like you can use some help with managing your portfolio.
[he takes Max's money]
Max : Hey, that's my lunch money!
Dobbs : And you have it all in cash. Kid, let me hold this for a while and I'll set you up with a nice mutual fund.
Mrs. Talia : What's going on here?
Megan : He's taking Max's lunch money!
Mrs. Talia : Is this true, Mr. Dobbs?
Dobbs : No. I'm just spreading some investment wisdom. Speaking of which, how did Biomorph Systems work out for you?
Mrs. Talia : Best money I ever spent. By the way, what do you think of Handspring?
Dobbs : Handspring? It's moving today. I'd say buy.
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[teacher wants Max to write a long essay due Friday]
Max : Wait. Friday was the day I was moving. And this teacher was mean. She let Dobbs steal my money. She wanted to punish me when it wasn't my fault. But if I wasn't gonna be here, what could she really do to me, right? It was time to take a stand.
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Max : Attention, students, this is Max Keeble speaking. First, I'd like to say to my friends Megan and Robe that I know that I acted like a jerk and I'm sorry for ever getting you involved in this. I screwed up, but you guys are my best friends and that's forever. I don't know what else to say, but I'm sorry. It probably doesn't matter to you anymore, but I'm not moving. And McGinty and Dobbs, it's me you want, so leave my friends alone. I may have run before, but I am all through running now. You want me, I'll be in the parking lot, 3:00.
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Principal Jindraike : You may be under the impression that I encourage horseplay and malarkey, you're wrong, I don't encourage it, I excourage it.
Max : Excourage?
Principal Jindraike : It means the opposite of encourage, look it up.
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Max : I'll see you, uh, bassoon.
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Max : [talking to Jindraike with voiceover effect and pretending to do kung fu] I do not fear your dark powers, bald one.
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Evil Ice Cream Man : [He jumps from his ice cream truck, and carries two ice cream scoopers, and starts talking as if he is in the old chinese movies] I will defeat you, with my complicated fighting move.
Max : [the words don't match his mouth] We shall see whose kung fu is superior! HAH!
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Entire Class : [after Troy shows who his latest victim will be] Freak with Robe?
Robe : [From behind glass] Help! Help! Let me out! let me out!
Max : [Lets Robe out of the barrier] Now, he's a little claustrophobic, so he might...
[watches Robe throw up]
Max : Hurl!
Robe : What a waste of a perfectly good chili omelet...
[continues throwing up]