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Exceptionally user-friendly for the technologically challenged among us and rides over its less inspired patches on a wave of cheeky humor.

The movie has been produced by Nickelodeon, and will no doubt satisfy its intended audience enormously. It does not cross over into the post-Nickelodeon universe.

Intermittently fun, but mostly just efficiently passable.

Tries and winds up with a pleasant, if forgettable, romp of a film.

After the first hour, it starts to convince you that time really can stand still.

If I were 13, I might be sufficiently entranced by the movie's bicycle stunts (down stairs! across countertops!) 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.

Botches what could be the most mischievous power since Scott Baio's telekinesis in the 1982 comedy "Zapped!": a wristwatch that speeds up time for the user until the rest of the world seems to be standing still.

A blandly conceived youth adventure lacking zing or style.

Not enough to keep Clockstoppers from turning viewers into clock-watchers.

Stops time, all right -- it stretches 94 minutes into something that begins to feel like infinity.