Zenon: A Corrida para a Lua

After reading some other reviews about this movie I thought I would contribute a little of my own to hopefully give it a little more respect as it should be entitled to. It's not all that bad of a movie assuming you keep a few factors in mind while watching it... although, it would have been much better if they would have been able to get the same actor who played Proto Zoa from the firs two movies to reprise his role in this 3rd addition to the series.

Anyway, if you watch it in terms of it being a "game" it's a fun movie to watch and enjoy. The way Disney Channel premiered it and aired it for the 3rd time the next night were probably the only good showings of it they will do. Just airing it as a plain movie won't be all that special or much fun in other words. If you saw the premier than you knew that this movie comes with a fun twist -- it has 50 hidden "Z's" scattered throughout the movie in which as you watch it you can try and locate them yourself. Some of them are quite difficult to see while many of them are extremely easy (true). So, if you were clever enough to record both the original premier and the Saturday night encore of it you've got the best 2 showings of the movie ever and 2 versions of the movie that you would be able to watch again and again if you feel like watching a movie just for pure fun and even to make a game out of it!

If Disney does do yet another Zenon movie (Zenon 4) hopefully they will learn from this last 2 movies and make sure that they at least get ALL the original cast members and come up with a decent script for a MOVIE and just a script for an hour long TV show (which is probably all that Zenon Z3 is without the commercials... unfortunately).

Ya know how there's one good movie that shows in theaters or on TV and after that it seems like the end of it? Well, sometimes that's not the story. The first Zenon was fantastic, and the second one was a little questionable, but c'mon people, there was no reason to make a third movie that was going to suck! Raven wasn't playing Nebula in the second one, but when they bring her back for the third movie, she's hardly in it. And it gets a little too predictable when at the end of the movie, Zenon saves the day and she's the hero of the world. BORING! Personally, this movie really annoyed me and I was disgusted by it. Just see the first two Zenon movies, they're worth watching. Watching the third one is just a waste of your time.

The first Zenon was novel and cute, and had meaningful plot line with quirky characters and a happy, Disney ending. The second wasn't nearly as good, with a less original plot and more attention spent on special effects (the aliens) than plot details. After the second Zenon, I never planned on having to sit through another disappointing remake on an originally perky and fun theme.

Sequels CAN be good, as Toy Story 2 showed us. However, each movie in the Zenon series has gotten progressively worse. Z3 has yet another unimaginative plot, with insignificant details and more flashy outfits and scenes than characters. There are only seven characters of even remote significance, and the plot would have been no different if it were compressed to three. The only reason Aunt Judy, Commander Plank, or Proto Zoa, three crucial characters in Z1, were inserted was for the "remembrance factor." Zenon's parents, who were also critical to the plot of Z1, are not even mentioned. Even Nebula, Zenon's best friend, appears less times than can be counted on one hand. The changing of actors for the same character which was sad and very noticeable in Z2 has happened in Z3, with a new Proto Zoa.

The storyline of Z3 leaves much to be desired as well. The plot of Z3 is frighteningly similar to Z2, with some kind of weird force trying to contact Zenon. This time, though, there is no explanation as to why the force is calling her in particular, or even what the force really is and how it has the power to do what it does. In addition, the villain of this movie is not nearly as sinister as Wyndom, having no clear motive or even an immediate effect on Zenon herself-- yet Zenon willingly takes on trying to foil his scheme.

The issue of the character Bronley also completely defeats me. It's obvious from the beginning he's going to end up as someone's love interest. However, his real role in the movie is nonexistent. When we first really get a glimpse of the character, he turns out to be an enemy of Zenon, and you begin to think that maybe there's some kind of hidden alliance between him and the real villain. But don't get your hopes up.

I could continue, but it isn't even worth it for such a disappointment of a movie. Watch the original Zenon, but don't even bother with either of the sequels.

I wonder if the term viral became negative in the 2050s instead of a more positive term now because of 2020 🤔 Also I had no idea that Jordan from Holiday in the Sun was in this.

I have loved the Zenon movies since the beginning. As a big fan of Kirsten Storms I've made sure not to miss them, but also to carefully scrutinize them. While this movie spent a lot of time trying to send a positive message, it still kept the same feel of adventure as in the other Zenon movies. The storyline definitely had some flaws, but all things considered it was one of Disney Channel's better films. I was nervous about how the movie would turn out as it has been a good amount of time since the last Zenon installment, but I did not feel that the age increase proved to be a problem. I enjoyed the movie and I do hope that a fourth installment will come in the future; however, viewers should not look for an Oscar nominated performance.