YMMV / Zenon

• Adaptation Displacement: Loosely adapted from a 1996 children's book. The success of the film did inspire four more Zenon books to be written though, adding up to a total of five.
• Fan Discontinuity: Most fans tend to ignore Z3, due to it being so different from the other two (among other things).
• First Installment Wins: Many consider the first movie to be the best in the series, if not the only good one.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The presence of Zap Pads in the first movie, made long before iPads and other subsequent computer tablets became commonplace.
  • The first movie predicted that then-current President Bill Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, would follow in her father's footsteps. A Clinton would indeed become the first woman to run for POTUS — Bill's wife (and Chelsea's mother), Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• Periphery Demographic: Zenon was targeted at tween girls. Its actual fanbase is all over the map, and doesn't just include those people who were tween girls when they saw it; it also includes geeky types who are in it for the Narm Charm, a few people who think it's a legitimately good movie, and of course the older male fanbase that we don't like to talk about.
• Sequelitis: Z3 is considered this by fans of the first two for going in a different direction, and not doing it well. The second movie is also seen as this, though nowhere near the same extent.
• So Bad, It's Good: It's a Totally Radical Disney tween flick that was far into Zeerust even when it was made, the music is pure tweeny-pop written in Future Slang, and even elementary schoolers know that you use metric in science class (well, depending on the particular school in question). But the movies play everything so completely straight, without even a hint of parody, that your brain can just disengage and enjoy it.
• Special Effects Failure: Though some of the effects are decent for a TV movie from the late 90s, such as shots of the space station, others, such as Zenon floating out in front of the space station, don't fare nearly as well.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Z3 had a lot that made it feel different from the first two, but many weren't happy when Zenon's Catchphrase "Cetus Lupeedus" suddenly changed to "Vega Omega"