Ben 10: Race Against Time (2008) poster
2008 · action · family · sci-fi · tv-movie

Ben 10: Race Against Time

Directed by Alex Winter1h 7m2008
ElsewhereIMDb4.26k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • redemptive
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, gentle action / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.

Our read · Ben 10: Race Against Time (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · family · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a short live-action kids superhero adventure with cartoon roots.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if low-budget TV-movie effects or simple plots bore you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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