Zoey 102 is a film based on Zoey 101 that serves as a sequel to the show and was released exclusively on Paramount+ on July 27, 2023.^[1] Production began in January 2023 in North Carolina.^[2]

Synopsis:[]

Over a decade after the iconic series ended, Zoey Brooks is still trying to figure out life and love, this time in her 20s. The Pacific Coast Academy (PCA) gang returns to Malibu for Logan and Quinn's over-the-top wedding turned high school reunion for the books.

Plot[]

Zoey Brooks, now 32 years old and a struggling television producer for a reality series called "LOVE: Fully Charged", gets asked by her best friend Quinn Pensky to be the maid of honor in her and Logan Reese's upcoming wedding, which is scheduled on the same weekend as the shoot for the season finale of LOVE: Fully Charged. Further exacerbating this is the fact that Zoey still has repressed feelings for the best man, Chase Matthews, whom she has not seen or spoken to since abandoning him on a Hawaiian vacation right after high school. This led to their breakup, and Chase now has a new girlfriend. Zoey devises an elaborate plan to both attend the wedding and work the finale, and she also hires Todd Schupert, an actor who auditioned for LOVE: Fully Charged, to pose as her boyfriend.

The next day at the reception, Zoey reunites with most of her friends from school; Quinn, now a successful inventor, Logan, who has inherited his father's fortune, Stacey Dillsen, now the runner of a popular murder podcast, Mark Del Figgalo, Stacey's husband and field producer, Michael Barret, now a successful rap producer, and Chase, now an elementary school teacher. After tending to Jordan B., one of the finalists on LOVE: Fully Charged, Zoey returns to the reception later at night and finds Quinn secluding herself, who reveals that she is feeling nervous about the wedding and is only going through with it to please Logan. The whole group decides to go out to a karaoke bar to reconnect and de-stress before the wedding rehearsal the next day. A confrontation ensues between Todd and Chase, the latter claiming that he is over Zoey and has moved on.

The next day, Todd watches Jordan so that Zoey can attend the rehearsal, but Jordan ends up getting amnesia from a head injury and forgets all of his lines for the LOVE: Fully Charged finale. The day of the wedding and finale arrives, and Zoey goes to pick up the wedding rings, Chase inadvertently joining her. Zoey and Chase are reluctant to engage with one another at first, but after being pressured into kissing by the ring shop workers (who mistook them for Quinn and Logan), they warm up to each other. Zoey apologizes to Chase for abandoning him in Hawaii and reveals that her reason for doing so was because she was afraid of things between them going down in flames again, as they always had, and admits that she still has feelings for him after all this time. The two then share another, more genuine kiss.

En route back to the wedding, Zoey's self-driving car dies on the side of the road, forcing her and Chase to continue on foot. They arrive just in time and the ceremony starts, as does the finale of LOVE: Fully Charged, Zoey simultaneously fulfilling her maid of honor duties and feeding lines to Jordan via her phone and wireless earbuds. While giving the welcome speech, Stacey receives a lead that places Todd as a murderer, and Zoey ends up getting confused and feeds Jordan the wrong lines, and as a result the finale is ruined. Zoey then admits to everyone that she is working and that Todd is not her boyfriend (nor a murderer) and actually an actor, and Quinn, fed up with Zoey's dishonesty and Logan's preference of making the wedding a spectacle over making it meaningful, calls off the ceremony and runs away. The wedding also ruined, Todd leaves, and Zoey gets fired for ruining the LOVE: Fully Charged finale.

Later, Zoey and Chase meet up at a beach, the latter revealing that he and his girlfriend had actually broken up two weeks ago, and she only accompanied him to the wedding so he wouldn't be alone. Zoey then figures out how to fix everything and brings the whole gang back to their old school, Pacific Coast Academy (which is now abandoned after having been closed down in 2009 due to low education standards and lack of accreditation, as well as academic fraud and tuition embezzlement scandals with Dean Rivers), where they spruce the place up. Logan apologizes to Quinn and convinces her to return to PCA with him, where the gang has set up an informal wedding venue to officiate Quinn and Logan's marriage. Zoey later gets a call from her boss, who tells her that the finale of LOVE: Fully Charged actually ended up being a huge success and offers her a promotion, which she accepts (with some extortion, including giving Todd a role on the show). She and Chase then dance together and profess their love for each other, sharing another kiss.

After the ceremony, Stacey and Mark apologize to Todd for falsely accusing him of being a serial killer, but their accusation is proven to have actually been correct as Todd is shown to have a person inside of a body bag in the trunk of his car.

Cast[]

• Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey Brooks
• Erin Sanders as Quinn Pensky
• Sean Flynn as Chase Matthews
• Matthew Underwood as Logan Reese
• Christopher Massey as Michael Barrett
• Abby Wilde as Stacey Dillsen
• Jack Salvatore Jr. as Mark Del Figgalo
• Dean Geyer as Todd^[3]
• Owen Thiele as Archer March^[4]
• Thomas Lennon as Kelly Kevyn^[5]
• Shua Jackson as Greg Kevyn

Gallery[]

Video[]

Zoey 102 - Official Trailer - Paramount+

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