Clockstoppers is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Jonathan Frakes and produced by Julia Pistor and Gale Anne Hurd.

The film stars Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés, French Stewart, Michael Biehn, Robin Thomas, and Julia Sweeney.

The NSA-funded Quantum Tech (QT) Corporation has slated a project to develop Hypertime, a technology which allows the user's molecules to speed up to the point where the world appears in standstill.

Zak repeatedly bombs out with Francesca, the hot new girl at school, first with a condescending offer to show her around and then, after she allows him to help her rake leaves, by bringing a live opossum into her house.

However, she is impressed when he shows her the power of the watch, which they use to pull pranks around town, and later help Zak's friend Meeker wins a battle of the DJs contest.

Dopler uses the machine he was building to reverse the aging effects of Hypertime, but it inadvertently changes him back into a teenager, meaning he will have to live with the Gibbs family for a few years.

[7] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2.5 stars out of 4, and wrote: "The movie has been produced by Nickelodeon, and will no doubt satisfy its intended audience enormously."

"[9] Nell Minow of Common Sense Media gave the film four stars out of five, describing it as a "Fun action comedy with nifty special effects."

"[10] IGN's Scott B. rate the film two stars out of five (score 4 out of 10) and wrote that it "most of [his] criticisms come squarely from the perspective of an adult recognizing just how much Clockstoppers has homogenized a provocative conceit.

"[11] Russell Smith of The Austin Chronicle gave the film rate two stars out of five, saying that "actually works pretty well most of the time, raising whether likability and constant sensory stimulation really do compensate for a multitude of cinematic sins, or whether I'm simply losing my ability to differentiate among levels of mediocrity.

"[13] Danny Graydon of Empire gave this a film also two stars out of five, writing that "the predictably safe tone favors the welter of teen clichés, while the one major special effect is quite meager and quickly dispensed with.