There are a few funny ideas, but overall it's silly, schmaltzy and sentimental, as father and daughter take a road trip and discover love, trust and letting go are paramount to their relationship
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08/06/08
College Road Trip (2008)
14 %
Reviews Counted: 51 Fresh: 7 Rotten:44 Average Rating: 3.4/10
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Filled with shrill gags and middling slapstick, College Road Trip is woefully short on comic imagination.
Runtime: 83 mins
Synopsis: Directed by Roger Kumble (THE SWEETEST THING, JUST FRIENDS), the 2008 comedy COLLEGE ROAD TRIP stars Martin Lawrence as Chicago cop James Porter, an overprotective father who wants to keep his college-bound daughter, Melanie (Raven-Symone), close to home. When the smart, assertive... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Raven-Symone, Martin Lawrence, Donny Osmond
Director: Roger Kumble
Screenwriter: Emi Mochizuki, Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Producer: Andrew Gunn
Composer: Edward Shearmur
Screenwriter: Emi Mochizuki, Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Producer: Andrew Gunn
Composer: Edward Shearmur
Reviews
...precisely the sort of over-the-top and unapologetically silly endeavor one might've anticipated...
07/31/08
The trailer looks like absolute garbage, but the movie itself was a lot less painful than I thought. It's still not good, just mediocre.
07/22/08
One does not watch College Road Trip. One encounters it. Endures it. Accepts its challenge.
07/15/08
The intended show-stopper: a singalong of 'Double Dutch Bus' with a busload of Japanese tourists.
07/07/08
Undeniably fun for the kids, though it requires a camp sensibility in its adult audience. But in doing so, it is a warm return to the live-action Disney movies of yesteryear.
06/21/08
Somehow it took four writers to crank out what passes for a script...
03/15/08
James' outlandish ruses to make his firstborn a Wildcat are fun; the push-pull parent-child dynamic generic, but sweet. Bu the writers comedy failsafe is "Cut to the pig!"
03/10/08
The comedian Sinbad once said that Hollywood seeks out original talents but then tries to make them just like everyone else. A case in point is Martin Lawrence.
03/10/08
You know you're in trouble when a potbellied pig upstages the human actors.
03/09/08
National Lampoon's Vacation Light. They have some funny disasters on the road, nothing like dead relatives or incest, but it's light and fun.
03/07/08
An amiable father-daughter charmer that teeters into total eye-rolling slapstick.
03/07/08
There are only so many food fights, pig-hopped-up-on-caffeine gags, and brutal Raven-Symone improv that one person can take before madness sets in.
03/07/08
It's a dark day indeed when a movie's funniest moments involve Donny Osmond.
03/07/08
College Road Trip is the best Martin Lawrence/Raven-Symone/Donny Osmond vehicle ever made.
03/07/08
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(2008)-COLLEGE ROAD TRIP finishes 2nd behind cavemen (& Roscoe Brown for that matter)
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(2008)-COLLEGE ROAD TRIP finishes 2nd behind cavemen (& Roscoe Brown for that matter)
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