An intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort.
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03/31/02
Clockstoppers (2002)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:23
Rotten:60
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: A pleasant diversion for the young teens, but a waste of time for anyone older.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Zak Gibbs (Jesse Bradford) is a regular teenager who's only got girls and hot rods on his mind, but all that changes when he finds a watch developed by his scientist dad, Dr. George Gibbs (Robin... [More]
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Paula Garces, Gariyaki Mutambirwa, Robin Thomas
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Reviews for Clockstoppers
A family-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise.
03/30/02
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03/30/02
Top CriticDirector Jonathan Frakes, who knows a thing or two about briskly-paced and smarter-than-average sci-fi entertainment, keeps everything light, lively and, more often than not, pleasingly exciting.
03/29/02
A benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion.
03/29/02
A pleasant, if forgettable, romp of a film.
03/29/02
Can we call a moratorium, please, on movies about pampered kids with a lot of free time in which to concoct guilt trips to lay on their hard-working parents?
03/29/02
If the director had committed to one genre rather than dropping in on many, he might have been able to pull it off.
03/29/02
Generally, Clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a different kind of time traveler, while happily killing 94 minutes.
03/29/02
When 'science fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science, it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre.
03/29/02
Beyond one brief 'insider' Star Trek joke, the former Commander Riker and his screenwriting team simply don't have enough fun with the material to make it the engaging, exciting and magical film it wants and deserves to be.
03/29/02
To be impressed, you need to be impressionable.
03/29/02
It feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects, and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes.
03/29/02
Frakes manages to salvage enough entertainment value to keep kids happy and adults satisfied.
03/29/02
Gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing.
03/29/02
Harmless sci-fi fun for youths.
03/29/02
It's almost good enough to be watched by grownups alone. Take the little ones.
03/29/02
Time stands still in more ways that one in Clockstoppers, a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable.
03/29/02
A harmless and generally entertaining bit of fluff.
03/29/02
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.
03/29/02
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