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DVD Clockstoppers
Who hasn't fantasized about being able to stop time and move things around? A watch with this power drops into the hands of Zak (Jesse Bradford), a teenager who yearns for speed. He uses it to impress Francesca (Paula Garces), the beautiful girl he's got a crush on, but soon they both find themselves running from a government agency led by a ruthless executive (Michael Biehn from The Terminator) who wants the watch at all costs. Clockstoppers suffers from a lack of any internal logic, but the basic idea fuels a reasonably swift story and some decent special effects. The soundtrack is unusually strong, with pop offerings from Blink 182, Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, and others. Also featuring French Stewart (Love Stinks) as a hapless scientist and Julia Sweeney (It's Pat, God Said "Ha!") as Zak's mother. --Bret Fetzer
The movie is about a watch that stops time - or rather, it speeds up the wearer of the watch and anything he is touching when he activates the watch and appears to stop time. That leads to some interesting effects. The watch lands in the hands of Zak, a high-school student played by Jesse Bradford - and the film becomes a teenage comedy. The omnipresent evil government agency wants the watch and the chase is on.
French Stewart is the developer of the watch and has a nice funny role. Zak's African-American high-school buddy is about a half step away from Stepin Fetchit (a very underrated comic, by the way) and Michael Biehn has very little screen time. Paula Garces plays the girl-friend Francesca with some style. The movie has so much going on that it leaves too many loose ends and lapses of logic; there is too much time spent on scenes that do not advance the film and not enough time spent on scenes that do. Adults will have to work hard to stay interested. Jonathan Frakes is a better director than this.
I suggest watching the film with children present because they will applaud the wonderful things they could do with a watch that stops time and they will laugh at every comic moment. I have to tell you that I got as big a kick out of watching my children watch the film as I did watching the film itself. If you are looking for a nice inoffensive movie to watch with your children this is right down your alley.
Because it's a Children's movie...
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)
Lame SF Comedy
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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