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- 2002
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 2002
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Jonathan Frakes
Written By: Rob Hedden, Andy Hedden, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss
- 2002
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 2002
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
Clockstoppers
40
7.1
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Jonathan Frakes
Written By: Rob Hedden, Andy Hedden, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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67% Mixed
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21% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
40
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
67% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
21% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Exceptionally user-friendly for the technologically challenged among us and rides over its less inspired patches on a wave of cheeky humor.
To be fair, Clockstoppers isn't a bad film, merely bereft of creativity and personality.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.1
65% Positive
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35% Mixed
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0% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.1
65% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
35% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
0% Negative
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The critics say it may not be entertaining for viewers older than the young-teen age, but as I'm 17 years old, it's actually pretty good for me. Some of the scenes may feel cliched but the action scenes in the movie actually got me into it.
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Clockstoppers is just a middling, PG-rated tween movie with nothing more to offer than entertainment. Although it doesn't bring anything new to the table, the kids should enjoy it. So just ignore the critics. It is just like Back to The Future was blendered with The Matrix Trilogy which was rated R.
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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.
Intermittently fun, but mostly just efficiently passable.
Benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion.
With Clockstoppers, Frakes hobbles along with a high-concept film that doesn't live up to its potential.
Stops time, all right -- it stretches 94 minutes into something that begins to feel like infinity.
Clockstoppers seemed like a Back To The Future rip off to me, but I'd wanted to see the it because I am a Sci-Fi geek and it was directed by Star Trek's Jonathan Frakes. My expectations weren't very high and the story, based in Science Fiction, had the potentially of being too hard for audiences to understand. The writers decided to go another way with it and put this unique, experimental technology in the accidental hands of a teenager, and then marketed the whole package to young adults. It sounded a bit sketchy to me too and that's why it took me almost ten years to see it, but what I learned from this film, you can never judge a DVD by it's cover. Clockstoppers combines Einstein's Theory of Relativity with teenage rebellion in an action packed film that will really leave you on the edge of your seat. The story starts when a former student of Prof. George Gibbs sends him a prototype, of a watch, that speeds up your molecules to the point where it looks like everything else is standing still. Prof. Gibbs soon leaves to go on vacation when his son finds the watch and wears it out, thinking it's a normal watch. Once he learns the truth, other Clockstoppers show up to try and kill him, and that's when the film really gets going. The acting and special effects aren't really what draws you into Clockstoppers, it's the story, which throws you in every single direction and leaves you craving more. This was a film that was at the bottom of my list, that I watched because it was short and it was streaming. I was just looking for something to watch before bed, and what I found instead was a terrific Science Fiction adventure that fell way under the radar.
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A silly Nickelodeon movie that combines Back to the Future, the Matrix, and various other media related to time before Clockstoppers came to theaters to the blender to fuse an already-been-suggested movie.
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