Is "Max Keeble's Big Move" a pseudo sequel to "Snow Day"?
Zena Grey and Josh Peck were also both in Max Keeble's Big Move (granted, it was made by Disney and not Paramount/Nickelodeon) and the premise of Snow Day is greatly similar.
shareI always thought Max Keeble was Disney's attempt to try to capitalize on the success of Nickelodeon by having it be more in the style of a Nick movie or TV show and include some Nickelodeon actors.
share^This.
Much like how Snow Day was Nick's attempt at doing an angsty MTV films movie MKBM was Disney's lame attempt at doing a Nick movie and failing miserably. Such a shame because it had potential to be good: Lenz was great as were the 2 Snow Day kids, Miller and Kennedy were always funny then, and Robert Carradine was also in it but IDK it was just a boring mess of a movie. Way too boring.. they hyped it as the ultimate revenge movie but it wasn't anywhere close to it. They also made the girl from Snow Day unlikeable and whiny.. not a good change up.
This movie and the Hey Arnold movie were the 2 great movies that disappointed me as a kid. Snow Day did as well but it's aged better and has some good moments. MKBM not so much.
To further prove my point:
https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2001-10-05/141473/share
It's cut from the same kid-farce cloth as last year's Snow Day, with which it shares two kid stars (Peck and Grey) and an m.o.: Amidst a flurry of gross jokes, sight gags, and disposable pop rock, a pee-wee wisenheimer with a clueless dad fights “the system,” fawns over the wrong girl, and bests a generically named, over-the-top nemesis (here, Jamie Kennedy as an ice cream man, to Snow Day's seething snowplower, Chris Elliott). Max Keeble doesn't have nearly the same cult cachet (its cameo appearances top out with skateboarder Tony Hawk and pint-sized rapper Lil' Romeo), so its appeal is probably limited to preteen viewers, who won't respond to the Twisted Sister joke in the denouement or the product placement for Handspring.
https://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2001/maxkeeblesbigmove.html
It seems he has ticked off the ice cream man (Jamie Kennedy) and the two become intense adversaries (sound like “Snow Day” with the evil snow plow man). And the girl of Max’s dreams, Jenna (Brooke Anne Smith), helps to complete this predictable ensemble.
https://greensboro.com/max-keeble-s-big-move/article_2d448565-0330-5769-9139-10483ea59b1b.html
Yes, for kids who loved last year's ``Snow Day' from Nickelodeon Movies, Disney's ``Max Keeble's Big Move' retreads similar themes - without the snow tires. It's formulaic, long and more than a bit silly. But that's not to say the kids won't like it. They'll just like it a whole lot more than their adult companions.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/max-strikes-back/article763517/
Both sidekicks were also in the shrill Chevy Chase comedy, Snow Day, which shouldn't be held against them, though Max Keeble shares that movie's tendency to throw everything that's been overdone before into the mix and hope some of it's still funny.