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NUMBERS
Box Office: $36,900,146
VHS Rentals: $1,760,000
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CONSENSUS
A pleasant diversion for the young teens, but a waste of time for anyone older.
CAST & CREW
Jesse Bradford, Paula Garces, Gariyaki Mutambirwa
Directed by Jonathan Frakes
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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 Thomas). One day, while raking leaves with his friend Francesca (Paula Garces), he discovers the watch has special powers. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, action violence and mild language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 33 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 29, 2002
Video: Aug 13, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Time Travel, Teenage Fantasy Adventure
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Clockstoppers Site
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 "However it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs, young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Sit through this one, and you won’t need a magic watch to stop time; your DVD player will do it for you."
-- Scott Weinberg, APOLLO GUIDE
 "Light, silly, photographed with colour and depth, and rather a good time."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"While some of the camera work is interesting, the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"A hip ride into hyper-time, Clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing."
-- Steve Tilley, JAM! MOVIES
"A half-assed film."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"Such a fine idea for a film, and such a stultifying, lifeless execution."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture, and he'll be your slave for a year."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Generally, Clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a different kind of time traveler, while happily killing 94 minutes."
-- Tom Sander, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"The movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Clockstoppers is one of those crazy, mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up."
-- Sue Pierman, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"See Clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes. But be warned, you too may feel time has decided to stand still. Or that the battery on your watch has died."
-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
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"Time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "Clockstoppers," but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life."
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"The script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
" 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."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Far too tepid and unspectacular to be anything but a harmless
time-killer--it's really no better than a movie made for a child-
friendly cable network."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"A faster paced family flick. Upper Teens may get cynical. Smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"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."
-- Eli Sanders, SEATTLE TIMES
"Visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"A family-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"By the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion, you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around."
-- Donald Munro, FRESNO BEE
"I was actually entertained and amused; but overall the movie is adequate and little more."
-- Karina Montgomery, CINERINA
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ROTTEN 25%
Avg. Rating: 4.9/10 |
"A fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion."
-- Jan Stuart, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"I thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as I slogged my way through Clockstoppers."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"A pleasant, if forgettable, romp of a film."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
"A benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"Time stands still in more ways that one in Clockstoppers, a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"An intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"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."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"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."
-- Loren King, BOSTON GLOBE
"A competent, unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country."
-- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES
"The plot grinds on with yawn-provoking dullness."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"The troubling thing about Clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sense."
-- Mervius, FANTASTICA DAILY
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Clockstoppers" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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