Synopsis
When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.
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Cast
- Martin LawrenceChief James Porter
- Raven-SymonéMelanie Porter
- Kym WhitleyMichelle
- Brenda SongNancy Carter
- Margo HarshmanKatie
- Donny OsmondDoug Greenhut
- Molly EphraimWendy
- Will SassoDeputy O'Mally
- Geneva CarrMrs. O'Mally
- Lucas GrabeelScooter
Recommendations
- 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
You know a movie has taken a very strange turn when you find yourself eagerly awaiting the next appearance by Donny Osmond. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
At its best when it drops any pretense of plot for sheer goof (as when a Japanese sightseer belts ''Sister Christian'' on a karaoke tour bus), and at its worst when Lawrence manages to out-ham even his porky four-legged costar. - 50
Variety
This overplayed, underachieving laffer feels thoroughly manufactured to Disney specifications. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Lawrence's descent from hyperactive foulmouth to G-rated father figure has been in evidence for years now, but watching director Roger Kumble move from flawed but juicy projects like "Cruel Intentions" to pap like this is a depressing career development. - 40
Washington Post
Perhaps there will be people who do laugh at Lawrence and Raven-Symon screaming in tandem, or mugging their way along every tortured mile of their road trip, or unwittingly joining a sky-diving club and having to parachute into Washington so Melanie can make her interview. Heck, it was all really funny when they did it on "I Love Lucy." - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
What is puzzling is the incompatibility of the two leads with their roles. Raven is supposed to be a high school senior on a road trip to check out prospective universities. But she acts like a adolescent on a sugar high during a weekend sleepover. - 40
The New York Times
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. - 38
Chicago Tribune
As generic as its title, College Road Trip feels like a first draft, the one the studio brings to the rewrite team that, in this case, never got hired.
