Fun action comedy with nifty special effects.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2002

Sci-fi hijinks and a government conspiracy serve merely as window dressing for a ham-fisted message about the importance of good parenting and owning a car in high school.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 20, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 1, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 7, 2002

If I were 13, I might be sufficiently entranced by the movie's bicycle stunts ... and wouldn't be wondering why ideas for science fiction films haven't progressed very far from Star Trek's first seasons all those decades ago.

Full Review | Apr 2, 2002

I thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as I slogged my way through Clockstoppers.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2002

This a Nickelodeon movie, and that's where it belongs: on children's cable television.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 1, 2002

An intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2002

A benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 29, 2002

A pleasant, if forgettable, romp of a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2002

If the director had committed to one genre rather than dropping in on many, he might have been able to pull it off.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 29, 2002

Time stands still in more ways that one in Clockstoppers, a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 29, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2002

OK, kid-friendly sci-fi.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 29, 2002

The movie has been produced by Nickelodeon, and will no doubt satisfy its intended audience enormously ... Unlike Spy Kids or Big Fat Liar, it offers few consolations for parents and older brothers and sisters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 29, 2002

Impressive sci-fi effects and cute actors can't save a trite, safe teen flick that should please Joe Lieberman.

| Mar 29, 2002