Imagine stopping time, or making everyone else move slower. What takes everyone else 24 hours would take you 24 minutes, besides all the other stuff that you could do to everyone else while being in hypertime.

The movie “Clockstoppers” creates this idea of hyper time and shows what would happen if such a concept became a reality.

An inventor?s son, Zak Gibbs (played by actor Jesse Bradford), comes by a watch that lets him freeze time. Actor French Stewarts, Dr. Earl Dopler (from the TV series “Third Rock from the Sun” ),the inventor of the watch and student of Zak?s father, creates the idea of hypertime (which means a person in hypertime would be moving so fast that everything else seems to stand still).

The company that made the watch has made others like it and many of the people who work at the company work in hypertime. To get someone out of hypertime they have to be frozen with liquid nitrogen. The problem is, a person grows old very quickly in hypertime and there?s no way to reverse the effects.

Zak?s love interest, Francesca De la Cruz (played by the beautiful Paula Garces), doesn?t give him the time of day. When Zak shows Francesca the watch they both have fun experiencing what they can do with it.

The fun and games that Zak and Francesca find lead to trouble when the company in charge of the watch find it missing in their laboratory. These evil villains who made the watch are being pursued by the government that first started the experiment and now want to stop it.

French Stewart must work out the kinks of the watch, but he?s been growing old working for the evil company. Dr. Gibbs believes he can solve the kink of growing old in hypertime. Dr, Gibbs is then kidnapped and Zak and Francesca come to the rescue.

The movie ends happily and everything works out the way it should ? or does it? The special effects and mild humor make this movie appealing to younger viewers but not highly entertaining for the younger crowd.