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Clockstoppers
2002
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. It goes .. Read more
| Starring | Jesse Bradford, French Stewart, Julia Sweeney, Scott Thomson |
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| Director | Jonathan Frakes |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Clockstoppers
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. It goes into "hypertime," speeding up the molecular structure of whoever's wearing it, so the rest of the world looks frozen, but is actually just moving much slower. At first Zak and Francesca have a lot of fun playing pranks on people while in hypertime, but soon they realize they are in grave danger. A corrupt corporate drone, Henry Gates (Michael Beihn), wants to use the watch for evil deeds and decides to kill Zak, his dad, and Francesca in the process. Gates kidnaps Dr. Gibbs and Zak and Francesca enlist the help of a kooky scientist, Dr. Earl Dopler (French Stewart, THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN). The rest is high action camp; it's like THE MATRIX for teens. All the action takes place to a pounding soundtrack that includes artists Smashmouth, Blink 182, Sugar Ray, and Kool Keith.
| Starring | Jesse Bradford, French Stewart, Julia Sweeney, Scott Thomson, Robin Thomas, Michael Biehn, Billy Mayo |
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| Director | Jonathan Frakes |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Apr 2003 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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This sci-fi comedy adventure produced by the children's TV channel Nickelodeon shouldn't have made it past the small screen. Teenager Zak Gibbs (Jesse Bradford) discovers a watch among his father's possessions which can, in effect, stop time, while the wearer can move around in space, as if invisible. However, this being a children's film, Zak doesn't do anything naughty, novel or typically teenage with it. Instead he impresses the new girl at school (Paula Garcés), gives some bullies a lesson they'll never forget and helps a friend win a contest. Soon rogue government agents (led by The Terminator's Michael Biehn) are on his trail and kidnap his father to get hold of the clockstopper. Our hero may be running out of time, but this film has certainly run out of ideas. This will please neither children nor parents … nor physicists.
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Geeky genius Earl Dopler (Stewart) has developed a wristwatch that triggers hypertime - an accelerated version of... read more on Time Out
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
A new idea!
'the time travel ones were always the best'.
this must be the phrase which was ringing in a certain directors ears when he took on this film.Johnathon,COMMANDER RIKER,frakes directs a not so unfamilier subject and pulls it off quite well.
No star pulling power,not much in the way of SFX and a limited audience subject matter cannot hide the fact that this is a well polished film which delivers value for money entertainment for 90 mins.
the cast lead you convincingly and Frakes keeps the pace constant rather than slowing up for tecno-babble.
After this and the star trek films I cant wait to see what he could turn his hand to next.great fun. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Neat film
Zack's your typical American kid with the usual disfunctional family except his father's a high powered physicist and has been sent a strange device by a former student who had developed a way of speeding up a person's molecular activity until real time looks like it's stopped. When he first picks up the watchlike device, Zach doesn't know what he's got but when he and his girlfriend realise what is going on they have a fun time round town. Until Zach returned home to see torchlight in his house. No ordinary burglars these, though, for he's still in hypertime.
Zach is taken prisoner by his father's former student only to rescue him in turn. Then there's a car chase through hypertime, suddenly translating back down to normal time. With the realisation that Zach's father had been kidnapped by the delightfully named Mr Gates, for the system has a slight bug in it - the longer you stay in hypertime, the more you age, the film takes a more serious turn.
This is a fun film that successfully avoids sliding into a standard teen flick, though it is touch and go in places, particularly at the end.
With Jonathan Frakes in charge, there is a brief homage to Startrek TNG. -
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