College Road Trip (2008)
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 61
Filled with shrill gags and middling slapstick, College Road Trip is woefully short on comic imagination.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 20
Filled with shrill gags and middling slapstick, College Road Trip is woefully short on comic imagination.
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A high-school student (Raven Symone) with noble dreams of becoming a public defender sets out to visit potential universities in the unwanted company of her father (Martin Lawrence) -- an overprotective cop -- in this road trip comedy produced by Andrew Gunn and directed by Roger Kumble. Melanie (Symone) is about to graduate high school, and she's ready to take her first step toward adulthood by hitting the road to explore her college prospects with a few close female friends. But despite the
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Martin Lawrence
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Raven Symone
Melanie -
Donny Osmond
Doug -
Brenda Song
Nancy -
Will Sasso
Deputy O'Mally -
Eshaya Draper
Trey -
Kym E. Whitley
Michelle -
Arnetia Walker
Grandma Porter -
Margo Harshman
Katie -
Josh Meyers
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Lucas Grabeel
Scooter -
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Adam Le Fevre
Judge -
Lonny Ross
Student Guide -
Eugene Jones
Hunter -
Chad Hessler
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All Critics (73) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (63) | DVD (14)
Even with a brief running time, 'College Road Trip' is an ordeal that even its target audience will find dispiritingly lame.
Top CriticIt is genuinely, consistently, indisputably putrid.
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.
It's a dark day indeed when a movie's funniest moments involve Donny Osmond.
College Road Trip is the best Martin Lawrence/Raven-Symone/Donny Osmond vehicle ever made.
College Road Trip may be mawkish and predictable, but some well-staged gags and several memorable contributions by supporting players keep the sap from getting too sticky.
A Disney production that would seemingly be more at home on the Disney Channel than in the local multiplex.
Martin Lawrence's long, sad devolution from the poor man's young Eddie Murphy to the poor man's late-period Eddie Murphy continues.
To put it bluntly, this trip isn't worth taking for the vast majority of movie-goers.
There isn't an ounce of real life between here and Somers Town.
Oh no, it's a Martin Lawrence family comedy, and it's sponsored by Disney. What kind of a sadist put those two together? Come back, Ice Cube, all is forgiven. Actually, please don't.
Children might find the slapstick routines amusing, but for older viewers this is a mirthless voyage.
Imagine being locked in a car with Charles Manson, Idi Amin and Osama bin Laden. The worst road trip ever? Nope. That honour belongs to Martin Lawrence's latest so-called comedy, which parks itself neatly between the words appalling and god-awful.
This is one of those churn-'em-out Disney comedies in which every performer seems to be competing to give the most annoying performance in cinematic history.
As expected, his plan unravels within minutes of leaving the driveway.
This is a frontrunner for worst film of the year, but a healthy $45m in the US means a sequel is likely - proof that education standards are indeed slipping.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived at a new circle of hell: the one where Martin Lawrence is no longer the most irksome presence in a Martin Lawrence movie.
Sentimental and chillingly brain-dead family comedy.
Martin Lawrence sits sheepishly low behind the wheel for this meandering drive through comedy hell.
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