Speaking in terms of the title, this Disney Channel movie absolutely zucks.

It starts out with the title character and her friend Nebula who are on this space station which has a design somewhat similar to that of Stanley Kubrick's "2001." They sneak away to a secluded area with a console with two trackballs and then proceed to play a game on it that is somewhat like Pong. In reality, the console actually controls the emergency airlock doors in the commander's office, while the little dots are actually many pieces of office furniture being sucked out into space. No explanation is given as to why there IS an emergency airlock in the commander's office, or why its controls are on a different part of the ship.

The commander learns of this and, as a disciplinary measure, relocates Zenon to a laboratory where they listen for radio signals. She hates her job. And to make things worse, an important army guy visits the station to keep it from "falling out of orbit," and he brings along her daughter, whom Zenon is forced to make comfortable. She immediately starts acting like a cliched bratty little princess while treating Zenon like a servant and sucking away her social life. (I believe they had a previous encounter in the first film, but I haven't seen the first film, so I don't know much about it.)

Anyway, Zenon is working at the lab when she suddenly starts hearing these strange "zum zum zum" noises picked up by the radar. She starts telling other people about these noises, but all it leads to is her being ignored or ridiculed by the station's other inhabitants. Later on she recognizes the noises as notes and lyrics from a song from her favorite pop singer Protozoa, and then deduces from this information one solid conclusion: there are aliens out there who want to meet Protozoa! I know nothing of what a real teenage girl would think of this, but I started laughing at this point.

She then sneaks to Earth with a group of space station deportees (the important army guy started jettisoning portions of the station in an attempt to prevent it from "falling out of orbit"). The army guy's daughter sneaks off to Earth with her, and together, reluctantly, they find the secluded home of Protozoa. Protozoa is one of the most annoying characters in the movie, as he is an egomaniac with an Australian accent. We also learn that the army guy's daughter developed this snotty attitude because she had been moving around a lot and never got to make actual friends.

After the government gets involved and the army guy starts getting cheesed off, Zenon, Protozoa, and mixed family and friends fly off in a garbage barge her mother swiped to escape an imposed house arrest on the space station to meet the aliens who sent Zenon the "zum zum zum" signals. Along the way, the garbage barge her mother snuck off the space station with runs out of fuel, and the spaceship just STOPS DEAD IN SPACE. To make things worse, the spaceship, we're told, is about be pulled into the moon's gravitational pull to crash and explode on the moon's surface. I'm no expert, but wouldn't they just orbit the moon instead of dropping to the surface like a bag of cement?

Well, neither happens, as the aliens finally appear, save everybody, and befriend the humans inside. During a scene of some glittery special effects, we learn the aliens were actually using Protozoa's song as a distress signal. The humans are towed back to the space station, and everyone is glad to see them alive. Then the army guy proceeds to chew everybody out, particularly Zenon for her irresponsibility and endangerment of other people's lives. He also demands proof that these aliens exist. The aliens show up, restore the space station's orbit, reattach the jettisoned pieces, and then leave. The movie ends with Protozoa singing an annoying and forgettable song, while Zenon and the army guy's daughter reconcile their differences.

Rating: 1 1/2 turkeys (two for its laughable stupidity, and a half-turkey deduction for the irritating dialogue (the phrase "cetus-lapetus" used in the giddiest voices over and over again)).

Things that make you go "Huh?": The continuous theme in futuristic movies such as this that insist that we will all wear goofy outfits.