>As a fan of the movie, it was the only untrue and
>uncharacteristically "mean" moment from Max and I just didn't
>like seeing him that way.

How is this meaner than cutting Blume's brakes and potentially killing people? Or attacking Blume with a swarm of bees!?

Face it, Max had some issues.

> As a fan of film, the whole offering
>her of a sandwich and juice just pushed the quirky offbeat
>shtick too far.

If she had eaten the sandwich, it would have been too quirky. This scene just helped point out how Max still didn't entirely understand the adult world.

>The other one, and one that has sort of grown on me, is the
>scene with Margo and Eli on that bridge. It was forced and
>screamed of "what a great location with great camera
>possibilities", even though its supposed to be a clandestine
>secret meeting.

Agreed.