Such a frustrating disappointment

hyped garbage

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Hello IMDb this is bluhmfamily and it's time to review Ben 10: Race against Time, WAIT, did I say Ben 10: Race against Time? Alright I'll review this!! I was young in 2007 and loved the show Ben 10 so much, I was waiting for a preview for a live movie. When I saw the preview for this movie, I shouted and cried in joy. At first I thought it was a live movie about Ben getting the Omnitrix and Vilgax wanting it and all that junk.But then I saw it was called "Ben 10: Race against Time", I was confused.Alright to the movie begins with the night life of Bellwoodd, suddenly a guy named Eon appears and blows up lots of stuff. Suddenly, Heatblast shows up (who looks very,very,very,very fake). Heatblast tells Eon that he should leave, suddenly the sheriff shows up, Eon then calls his minions down. WAIT WAIT WAIT, minions, REALLY!, they look like something you would find in a Power Rangers episode! Heatblast then battles Eon's minions like he's a toy.Heatblast then burns Eon, why can't that be the end of this dang movie! Heablast then flies away, after landing, Heatblast suddenly turns back to Ben, who looks nothing like himself. We see the Rustbucket pull up and Gwen and Max step out of it. Gwen tells Ben that Heatblast totally burned up Bellwoodd. Max says that Ben needs to get home before his parents wake up and that he has school the next day. Rewind the movie and see that the clock says 2:50 AM. And I thought that in 2008 we see the final episode of Ben 10 air; I guess the episode was non-cannon.After riding to MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!!, Ben also tries to re-live his old life but fails at it.Next we see Ben's parents for the first time ("Goodbye and Good Riddance" is non-cannon). And I have to admit, the movie was moving smoothly until Ben's parents, Carol and Sandra come in! They just suddenly make the movie really bad.After a worthless scene with Max, Ben goes to a diner that should be Mr. Smmothy (a restraint from Ben 10: Alien Force). Ben transforms into Greymatter to hack the restraint's machines because Cash and J.T, and a bunch of girls wreck his life again.Ben later finds out that Eon is still alive, Max tells Ben and Gwen that Eon was the first alien the Plumbers ever captured. The three go to the place were Eon was kept (It must have been before the Null Void was created), they go to the place and find out that Eon destroyed the place long ago. Max tells Ben and Gwen that Eon is after the Hands of Armygedon to unleash his people from Chronia to invade Earth.They find the "Hands" back in Bellwood, later Eon hacks the Omnitrix and makes it stop working and pointlessly chases Ben around the street.Later, Max tells Ben that Eon will need the Omnitrix to power the "Hands". The next day, Ben is alone in the gym until Eon finds him.Ben transforms to Diamondhead and shortly battles him. Later, Ben and Gwen are in the park until Max shows up and finds out that Ben and Gwen are trying to let Eon find them.The Rustbucket is destroyed and not even Upgrade can repair it. OH BOY! Time to make the Rustbucket II, the RV we don't see until Ben 10: Alien Force! Max fights like a really old grandpa and lets Eon capture him along with Ben and Gwen.Ben wakes up and finds out that Eon needs to Omnitrix to turn Ben into a younger clone of Eon since the "Hands" can only be worked with a young Chronian. Ben transforms into Eon, not Beneon, or Bentime, or Bon, the alien is just called Eon! After a stressful scene, Eon transforms back to Ben and the real Eon freezes time and throws Ben across the room. Ben transforms to Wildmutt and uses Gwen to toss Eon into the "Hands". Gwen and Wildmutt make it to the talent show and they all live happily ever after.This movie plainly ruined the Ben 10 show, the show suddenly became bad because of this movie! I give Ben 10: Race against Time a 3 out of 10 because it's poor, stupid, pointless, no trace of connection with the show, the Omnitrix aliens poor CGI graphics, and the poor acting.But the universe of Ben 10 still has one last hope of fixing the series. That fixer is called "Ben 10: Alien Force"

A live action adaptation of the animated Ben 10 series may have sounded really good on paper. Throughout the series, Ben and Gwen were on summer vacation with their grandpa Max. Now in this movie, we get to see how the two characters adjust back to normal school life while juggling Ben's secret hero career; definitely something never before seen in the series. Also the story deals with a plot by a time manipulating alien known as "Eon" who plans to use Ben and the omnitrix to take over the world. In addition to that, Ben and the PLUMBERS must deal with the revelation of a new plot device known as the "Hands of Armageddon" that, when activated, would create untold damage. A combination of new and familiar elements riding the wave of live action adaptations of animated series would no doubt have been a huge hit. Sadly, Ben 10 Race against time comes across as cheap, B grade, kids' holiday special and nothing more.Speaking of "time", this entire movie looks a lot older than it is. At best, it resembles the cheesy Power Rangers movie of 1995 in not just the set designs and special effects but the dialog, acting and overall "feel". Everything just looks insultingly cheap and years behind the standard of special effects even in sci/fi TV series.Though the main characters of Ben and Gwen resemble the physical appearance of their animated counterparts, their child actors just cannot convey the familiar personalities of those beloved characters. The acting, especially for Gwen, is very flat and feels forced. "The Six million Dollar Man" star Lee Majors is horribly miscast as grandpa max and the rest of the adult characters are either one dimensional kid movie stereotypes or comic relief characters.At very least, this movie has heart. The interactions between Ben, Gwen and Max are earnest and believable with the themes of cooperation, responsibility and family loyalty carried over from the original series. The side characters such as Ben's parents, the principle(played by Star Trek Voyager's Robert Picardo) and the rest of the PLUMBERS are entertaining in their antics but some of the humor feels very out of place.With fight choreography that looks worse than "Tattooed Teenage Alien fighters from Beverly Hills", disgraceful Computer generated effects and other flaws or deviations from the original that the more hardcore Ben 10 fans will no doubt take issue with, Ben 10: Race Against time is a sad failure by cartoon network to cash in on the popularity of the Ben 10 franchise. Only simple minded kids could derive any pleasure from watching this poor attempt at a live action sequel to one of the most well loved original animated series in recent years.

Before this came out I had been a little curious as to the direction they were going to with it and, had there been more effort, this would have become a great addition to the Ben 10 universe. First off I would like to say that the special effects, although probably the best that a movie of this budget could go for, are pretty lame. The fact that only four of the heroes are shown makes me think that they just couldn't be bothered! To add to an already dull air, the cast were very bad and most of the adults were represented as big children. I did however enjoy Christien Anholt's performance as the intimidating and rather cold Eon and felt he did do the character justice.

I am a HUGE fan of the Ben 10 series, and I also consider myself a fairly open-minded viewer. But this movie was just plain AWFUL! I grew up in the generation of kids that sat transfixed by shows like the multi-nauseating Power Ranger franchise, and I have to say, this movie's return to that style of filming was NOT for the better. Their multiple-level diffusion from the shows many aspects of continuity also didn't help.1) They selected a completely separate realm of voice actors for the aliens, none of which sounded in any manner like the voices we became used to in the cartoon. Would it have been such a hard thing to have requested the same people to voice the aliens in the movie? 2) What the hell was up with the break up of character continuity with Ben's parents? In the series, his dad was an ENGINEER for Christ's sake, who the hell is this hippie-dippy jackass?! And his mother, not that she was ever broached in the series (to my knowledge), jeez could you have made her any less likable? 3) The fight scenes with Eon's endless supply of disposable enemy drones was TERRIBLY CHOREOGRAPHED! Scene shots that center on them leaping through the air in over-dramatized jumping attacks, their grasp of "movie-style jujitsu", the only thing that Power Rangers had that Ben 10 didn't was lame spaghetti-western style impact sounds (biff, whack, thud, zap).4) Huh . . . nice how they cautiously avoided any of the more popular alien forms.5) Lee frigging Majors . . . dammit. I like Lee Majors, don't get me wrong, but why the hell would anyone think he would make a passable Grandpa Max Tennyson? Max is supposed to be a paunchy, easy to smile, almost Santa Clause like man (as proved by Mister Jingles). Lee Majors is a grizzled, emotional cut-off. Why not have him played by Adam West or William Shatner, if you wanted an 'Out of work' old man who couldn't act like anything but a worn old action hero? The only reason lee Majors was even used was because of the response that his name would incite, because you don't have to know who Lee Majors is, to have that subliminal "ping" in the back of your head tell you that he's been in TV for eons.I was so disappointed when I saw this movie; I'd been so excited when they started showing teasers months in advance, but this was one of those movies that was hyped up and couldn't stand under the weight of its director's over-zealous self-promotion.To the director: Step Down, turn in your megaphone, and the next time you consider taking on the task of bringing an animated series into the real world, try asking someone who isn't a frigging idiot what would make the movie really good. Your kiss-up writers suck. Better to pass on the 'Happy Ending' massage and hire a GOOD writer, and poll your audience to see what they do and do not like about the series.And just in case I hadn't made myself clear. This movie, DO NOT LIKE!