Given the scarcity of kid-appropriate fare in the marketplace these days, the feeble "Keeble" will probably move more tickets than it ought to, but it will never be mistaken for a keeper. Linz, who made his movie debut in 1996's "One Fine Day," is the Max Keeble in question, a nerdy 12-year-old who is determined to reinvent himself with a cool, new image to go with his new school. [...] are not one but three main adversaries in the form of the Evil Ice Cream Man (Jamie Kennedy), who always seems to be on Max's tail; Troy McGinty (Noel Fisher), the school's self-appointed bully; and the pompous Principal Jindraike (Larry Miller), who has been siphoning school funding to create a football stadium on the current site of an animal shelter.

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