If you loved Short Circuit 2, try Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century has roughly 3.4× fewer votes than Short Circuit 2 — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Kenneth Johnson, and they both carry the cozy, playful mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Family / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Short Circuit 2, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century is

Space stations have their downsides, apparently. Zenon, a 13-year-old space kid, gets sent to Earth as punishment. It predictably gets quirky from there.

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