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College Road Trip (2008)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Raven-Symone, Martin Lawrence, Donny Osmond
Screenwriter: Emi Mochizuki, Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Producer: Andrew Gunn
Composer: Edward Shearmur
Reviews
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!"
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.
You know you're in trouble when a potbellied pig upstages the human actors.
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.
An amiable father-daughter charmer that teeters into total eye-rolling slapstick.
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.
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.
The movie's tagline reads, 'They can't get there fast enough.' You'll be thinking the same thing.
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.
What could have been a fun, lightweight family flick -- this is from Disney after all -- turns out to be a hammy, not-very-clever waste of time.
This is a family movie that parents can actually take young children to see and not cringe while they're watching.
When the cutest and most amusing thing in a movie is a pet pig on caffeine, you know you're in trouble.
College Road Trip is better than most Martin Lawrence movies -- much as strep throat is better than malaria.
Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné mug their way through College Road Trip as if it were a silent movie -- which, come to think of it, would have been a lot less irritating.
I don't know if there are more than three or four laughs here, not even for devoted pre-teen fans of Raven's cable show.
The whole project is a cloying, artificial mess. The slapstick comedy doesn't bite, and the formulaic sentimentality doesn't grip. This is strictly phi beta crappa.
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