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Clockstoppers
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for action violence and mild language
Starring
Jesse Bradford,
French Stewart,
Paula Garcés,
Michael Biehn,
Robin Thomas,
Jason Winston George,
Linda Kim,
and
Julia Sweeney
When Zak (Bradford) discovers a high-tech watch that speeds up his body's molecules so that the rest of the world seems frozen in time, it's like having the ultimate super power -- until he winds up in a true race against time! (Nickelodeon)
| GENRE(S): |
Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Rob Hedden (also story)
J. David Stem (also story)
David N. Weiss (also story)
Andy Hedden (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jonathan Frakes
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 13, 2002
Video: August 13, 2002
Theatrical: March 29, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Exceptionally user-friendly for the technologically challenged among us and rides over its less inspired patches on a wave of cheeky humor.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie has been produced by Nickelodeon, and will no doubt satisfy its intended audience enormously. It does not cross over into the post-Nickelodeon universe.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
They may not have made another "Back to the Future," but to their credit, the makers of Clockstoppers don't patronize or underestimate their pre-teen audience nearly as much as has become customary.

60
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
A competent, unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
To be fair, Clockstoppers isn't a bad film, merely bereft of creativity and personality.

50
LA Weekly
Mark Olsen
Intermittently fun, but mostly just efficiently passable.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
If I were 13, I might be sufficiently entranced by the movie's bicycle stunts (down stairs! across countertops!) and wouldn't be wondering why ideas for science fiction films haven't progressed very far from "Star Trek's" first seasons all those decades ago.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Tries and winds up with a pleasant, if forgettable, romp of a film.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
After the first hour, it starts to convince you that time really can stand still.
50
Boston Globe
Loren King
The film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers, and it lacks the novel charm that made ''Spy Kids'' a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This moves back and forth between slightly clever and dopey or silly, kept vaguely watchable by the charming leads.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
There's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed: Mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up; when the explosions start, they fall to pieces.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The result is mixed bag, an intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort.

40
Salon.com
Damien Cave
What Clockstoppers achieves in acting and decent special effects, it undermines with weak dialogue and directing. The movie isn't bad; it just makes you wish that certain scenes could be hypertimed into oblivion.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Although it looks like an action thriller with a sci-fi twist, the bad guys aren't scary (Biehn's soul patch notwithstanding), the sci-fi element is silly and the action is limited to some extreme bike riding and computer-generated zipping around.

40
Variety
Robert Koehler
A blandly conceived youth adventure lacking zing or style.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Botches what could be the most mischievous power since Scott Baio's telekinesis in the 1982 comedy "Zapped!": a wristwatch that speeds up time for the user until the rest of the world seems to be standing still.

40
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion.

40
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
Pack the kids off to the multiplex with an easy conscience and forgiving critical sensibility.

38
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
With Clockstoppers, Frakes hobbles along with a high-concept film that doesn't live up to its potential.

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Not enough to keep Clockstoppers from turning viewers into clock-watchers.
20
Film Threat
Eric Campos
If I had the ability to engage in hyper-time, I wouldve ran up to the box office, snatched my money and left.

20
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Its most redeeming quality is that it's so inoffensive parents can feel OK about taking kids.

16
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Stops time, all right -- it stretches 94 minutes into something that begins to feel like infinity.


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