Rating: 
Summary: OK for youngsters; boring for adults
Review: "Clockstoppers" seems perfectly designed to appeal to the pre- and early-adolescent audience that is so obviously its target. It offers a clever gimmick, cool special effects, teenage heroes, puppy-love romance, a blaring rock soundtrack and even a mildly dysfunctional father/son relationship to help give the film its requisite patina of "social relevance." Adults, on the other hand - for all the reasons listed above - may well wish they could "hypertime" themselves through most of this tale about a crazy watch that has the power to stop time dead in its tracks.For a concept like this to really work (as it did in, say, "Back to the Future"), it has to be developed using a great deal of ingenuity and creativity. That is definitely not the case here. Indeed, the writers, once having come up with the gimmick, seem to have no idea what on earth to do with it for the hour and a half that the film is required to run. Predictably, when the youngsters discover the extraordinary power of the object in their possession, they spend most of their time using it to play dumb practical jokes on the unsuspecting citizens living in their obviously studio back lot town. Then, when the novelty of that wears off, the filmmakers trap them in a tedious plot involving stereotypical rule-the-world villains and kidnappers who are bent on retrieving the watch even if it means liquidating all the main characters in the process. "Clockstoppers" works well enough for prepubescent audiences primarily because both the violence and the lovemaking are kept on a purely prophylactic level (there's also no bad language in the movie). I suppose I must applaud the moviemakers for that. Yet, the film, just as assuredly, offers little that will interest anyone over the age of 15.
Rating: 
Summary: Interesting idea.
Review: Action, yes. Comedy, yes. Romance, a bit. Graphics, amazing. Acting, very good-to-moderate. Overall, the movie is a great viewing experience. There are very few scenes where you feel like it's a tv special, but that means nothing overall. The movie explores an interesting concept of time manipulation through the use of moving at hyper speeds. There are a couple of mistakes involving the hyper-time effect and how it acts upon objects. Like driving a car. But it's a stretch. The bottom line...I was completely involved throughout the whole movie. I felt comfortable with the characters and the story. And there's even a star trek joke from commander riker (the director). : )
Rating:
Summary: HEART STOPPINGLY GOOD
Review: Clockstoppers GENRE: SciFi DIRECTOR: Jonathan Frakes STARRING: Jesse Bradford , French Stewart , Julia Sweeney RELEASE DATE:
Friday, March 29, 2002 When Zak 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! Zack finds a watch that can make him walk very fast. its faster than anything. but some people want that watch back.
Rating: 
Summary: Not exactly Back to the Future for a new generation
Review: Clockstoppers got fairly good reviews, but if this movie were made for a PG-13 audience, it would've been a hella lot more appealing. I'll admit, I've wished for the ability to move at such a speed that time would be frozen around me. We see quite a bit of that happening in the movie. One of the movie's weakest points is that while the whole time-stopping element is good, the storyline is a little weak.
Rating: 
Summary: Could be better
Review: Clockstoppers is a great idea for a movie but it's a bit too kiddie for most people to enjoy. I think if this was more of an adult movie it would have been fantastic. The corn ball comedy and silly characters (Francesca? Could they have come up with a dumber name?) really holds this movie back. Some of the special effects are pretty good. But then some of them are pretty bad like when Zak and Francesca make their DJ friend spin in the air in front of a crowd of people. Naturally the people didn't notice anything odd about that.
Rating:
Summary: its alright
Review: Clockstoppers is alright. Id only really recommend it to people that r 10-. even if u r 10 or younger this might be boring for you.
All of the jokes failed except for maybe one and the action (the main dude ridin his bike and stuff) is just lame. its a boring, stupid, kids movie.
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Summary: Lame SF Comedy
Review: CLOCKSTOPPERS takes the premise of a watch that can stop time (from THE TWILIGHT ZONE) and combines it with the cutesy technogeek high school boy and girl (from WARGAMES) but manages to lose the quaint humor of the former and the credible interaction of the latter. Director Jonathan Frakes tries to infuse a lame script with catchy tunes, funky hip hop DJs, and some eye catching special effects in a tale that combines the usual government shadow agency bad guy (Michael Biehn) with the exciting premise that science can now halt the external passing of time while allowing a special watch-carrying agent to act normally within this hypertime. Jesse Bradford and Paula Garces are the two high schoolers (who by the way look far too old--Garces was 28 when she made this) who meet, fumble in their initial introduction, and go off on what is the same buddy relation that Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy did so much better in WARGAMES. French Stewart lamely plays the same role of the thwarted scientist that Christopher Lloyd had in BACK TO THE FUTURE. Films that borrow so liberally from other similar and more successful ones are usually noted only for a massive level of scriptual incompetancy. If the U. S. government really had such a hypertime device, I doubt if it would try to close down the very group that had it. Further, to cast the leader of the renegade scientists as a megalomaniacal thug is simply to plug into the Lame Scriptwriter's Textbook. CLOCKSTOPPERS is not a funny movie, nor is it a thrilling one. At best, one can ooh and aah only at the very occasional moments of dazzling lights. Prediction: This one will only be a footnote on the resumes of all concerned.
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Summary: Because it's a Children's movie...
Review: Dear Reader,
Lion King -- GENIOUS. Little Mermaid -- GENIOUS. Aladdin -- GENIOUS. All three of these movies are superior to many adult movies. Older people obviously can enjoy children's movies. Clockstoppers, however, can only be enjoyed by a select group of children who are either half asleep or high on candy. The kid skateboarded home from school. He didn't need to -- it just had to prove he was AWESOME!!! HE WASN'T!!! It had every opportunity to be an acceptable children's movie. However, with its lethargic plot and nonexistant character development, not to mention its attempts at covering these mediocrities with trendy music (inappropriate for each and every scene), this movie was just another cliche attempt to entertain children with technologhical shlock. Sincerely,
Me, rather disgusted (not to mention bored)
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Summary: Because it's a Children's movie...
Review: Dear Reader,
Lion King -- GENIOUS. Little Mermaid -- GENIOUS. Aladdin -- GENIOUS. All three of these movies are superior to many adult movies. Older people obviously can enjoy children's movies. Clockstoppers, however, can only be enjoyed by a select group of children who are either half asleep or high on candy. The kid skateboarded home from school. He didn't need to -- it just had to prove he was AWESOME!!! HE WASN'T!!! It had every opportunity to be an acceptable children's movie. However, with its lethargic plot and nonexistant character development, not to mention its attempts at covering these mediocrities with trendy music (inappropriate for each and every scene), this movie was just another cliche attempt to entertain children with technologhical shlock. Sincerely,
Me, rather disgusted (not to mention bored)
Rating:
Summary: Don't waste TIME
Review: Get this movie it is really good. This movie makes you think about what it would be like if you could stop time. You will watch this movie so many times believe me!
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