Clockstoppers (2002)

Clockstoppers (2002) Starring: Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés, Robin Thomas, French Stewart, Michael Biehn, Julia Sweeney, Garikayi Mutambirwa, Lindze Letherman, Jason George, Ken Jenkins, Tony Abatemarco, and Brian J. Williams Directed By: Jonathan Frakes Review THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME, IN A FEW MERE SECONDS. After I saw the Nostalgia Critic review this looked liked something I would enjoy, like one of those early 2000's teen movies, like Get Over It and The Nice Guy. I don't give them much credit but I do like those films. Until now, Zak Gibbs' greatest challenge has been to find a way to buy a car. But when he discovers an odd wristwatch amidst his father's various inventions and slips it on – something very strange happens. The world around him seems to come to a stop, everything and everybody frozen in time. Zak quickly learns how to manipulate the device and he and his quick-witted and beautiful new friend, Francesca, start to have some real fun. As we all now when Zak gets the watch he first uses it on accident, then his love interest finds out and after the plot shows up. That just seems very standard in these types of movies. It's very cliché in that manner. The acting is okay, there's nothing really special about the film, the concept of time travel has been done before. Not much is new with it. The effects they hold up pretty well for a 15 year old movie. This was also during the time when they was a bunch of spy movie's for kids, like Spy Kids, Agent Cody Banks movies and this. Clockstoppers is nothing special, its just a fun popcorn flick, that you can watch with your kids that's just decent. I'm giving it 6 hypertime watches out of 10.

I watched this as a kid and I loved it. It was actually not easy to find again considering it's age. This teenager, who sells everything he can on Ubid (at the time it was actually a thing 02), is saving up for a car. While going through his father's old junk from down stairs, he stumbles upon an old wooden box that he knocks off a shelf. In the box is a watch. When he presses a button on the watch it "slows down time" not actually stopping it. Moving so fast thru time, accelerating at the speed of a hummingbirds wing flapping, (google it). His father had explained what it does at one point but not explaining in full detail but calling it "Hypertime.His father is the main creator of the watch and knows how to duplicate it but says instead (like all movies) "What would happen if this got into the wrong hands?"As he figures out the watch, a group of men want it to use for their own purpose. (go figure the bad guys). As the teenager uses the watch, he also learns of it's side affects. When in Hypertime, the body is actually accelerating at hyperspeed as well, causing the cells of the body to age faster. 1 minute in reality is close to something like 5 or 10 minutes. 1 hour? almost something close to 2 days or more. As for a story line, a "hero" like based movie, this is a really good movie and deserves a 2nd film but never happened. If you like the concept of Time manipulation you will like this movie.

Clever kiddie movie that harks back to such lighthearted 1980s fantasy fare as "Weird Science" and "Gremlins." Jesse Bradford, playing a Zach Galligan-type teenager, "borrows" his scientist-father's weird watch that allows the wearer to speed up his molecules, so that everyone and everything around him appears to slow down and freeze. He and his new girlfriend have some fun with the device, until they realize they are being pursued by some very unpleasant people who are after the watch. Familiar TV actor French Stewart plays a wacky scientist who comes to the kids' aid. There's really nothing here you haven't seen before, but it is fun while it lasts. Great special effects.

I am a sucker for science fiction movies. One of my favorites (along with about a billion others) is 'Back To The Future.' As soon as I started watching 'Clockstoppers' I felt that it had a 'Back To The Future' feel to it. Watching the extras on the DVD, those in the movie thought so too. However there is no comparison. This movie uses a group of B-grade actors and a great, novel concept of certain persons becoming able to greatly speed up their time, rendering the world and people around comparatively in extremely slow motion. The problem starts right after that great concept is introduced, as the writer and director were not able to develop any substantial story line to go along with it. The result is a cute, mostly fun little movie that uses the hyper time mode for silly things, and when it is all over we realize the hyper time concept was the entire movie, with a silly script strapped on to make it look like a movie. I was highly entertained by the hyper time concept, I was mostly bored with the story surrounding it.SPOILERS -- We get the first glimpse that something is askew when a highly disguised Dr Doppler (great name!) is trying to get quickly onto a plane for Central America, only to get invisibly jerked off the tarmac platform right before boarding. Later we figure out that it was the two bad guys operating in hyper time, moving so fast they couldn't be seen. A professor had invented the circuitry, disguised as a watch, the government was realizing the hazard of this getting into enemy hands and not wanting to terminate the project, the bad guys need Dr Doppler to finish the design, because as it stood everyone operating in hyper time ages very rapidly, which defeats part of the purpose. The professor's son accidently gets the watch, figures out how to use it, helps his friend win a DJ contest, foils a bike theft, gets back at an over-eager meter maid, and various silly uses for such a fabulous technology. In the end, of course, the bad guys are foiled, and the professor's son drives away in his new Mustang, and goes into hyper time as the cops chase him. he had kept one of the watches!