37.2%
Based on 28 Reviews
Movie Info
Released:
March 7, 2008
Runtime:
1hr 23min
Director:
Roger Kumble
Writer:
Emi Mochizuki, Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Cast:
Martin Lawrence, Raven Symone, Arnetia Walker, Michael Landes, Brianna Russo
Rating:
G
Plot:
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.
75.0% Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Barry Paris
It has its moments, it's nicely color-blind, and it's moral -- when the syrupy music and synthetic tears kick in -- is no hokier than usual: To thine own self be true.
62.5% Salt Lake Tribune Vince Horiuchi
College Road Trip, a sometimes amusing, sometimes overwrought comedy that is just slightly above the ambitions of your typical Disney Channel made-for-TV movie.
62.0% Boston Herald Tenley Woodman
Walt Disney’s College Road Trip pairs Raven-Symone (The Cheetah Girls) with Martin Lawrence (Wild Hogs) in hopes of achieving comic gold. Too bad the headliners are upstaged by a pig.
62.0% Entertainment Weekly Adam Markovitz
Making pit stops for lame gags involving Tasers, skydiving, and the family's pet pig, College Road Trip is at its best when it drops any pretense of plot for sheer goof.
50.0% Hollywood.com Nicholas White
Although it doesn't hit on all cylinders, the somewhat emotionally resonant College Road Trip represents the same Disney caramel center at each one of its chocolate-coated candy films.
50.0% Knoxville News Sentinel Betsy Pickle
The script is credited to two pairs of writers, Emi Mochizuki & Carrie Evans and Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio, but it's hard to believe it took four people to come up with something this lame.
50.0% San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
College Road Trip is Disney's attempt to put Martin Lawrence, usually associated with a more robust brand of comedy, in a family-friendly, G-rated picture. The result is mixed at best.
50.0% Seattle Times Ted Fry
Don't confuse this glossy piece of tweener fluff with the 2003 raunch-fest Road Trip. As a vehicle for Disney Channel idol Raven-Symoné, the squeaky-clean image never wavers.
40.0% Eye Weekly (Toronto) Adam Nayman
It’s an 85-minute sitcom constructed out of telegraphed plot points, reaction-shot jokes and an obligatory musical showcase for former Cheetah Girl Raven-Symoné.
38.0% A.V. Club Nathan Rabin
Martin Lawrence's long, sad devolution from the poor man's young Eddie Murphy to the poor man's late-period Eddie Murphy continues with College Road Trip.
38.0% E! Online Matt Stevens
Holy MapQuest, this tedious trip is one wrong turn after another.
37.5% Boston Globe Ethan Gilsdorf
My personal guffaw-o-meter hardly registered a tremor. But a G-rated crowd of kids and their tolerant parents seemed mildly amused by this highly formulaic, make-'em-laugh-then-make-'em-cry comedy.
37.5% Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
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.
37.5% Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) Jeff Vice
This comedy is a painful and disingenuous attempt to turn the formerly hard-partying, R-rated comedian Martin Lawrence into a cuddly, family-friendly film star.
37.5% Kansas City Star Jason Heck
Add College Road Trip to the list of coldly assembled, sloppily executed vehicles designed to showcase their name-brand star to fans, leaving the rest of the audience cold.
37.5% Newsday Gene Seymour
College Road Trip is the kind of movie that its audiences will use once for blowing off steam and then toss aside as if it were shrink-wrap.
37.5% New York Post Kyle Smith
College Road Trip, is better than most Martin Lawrence movies -- much as strep throat is better than malaria.
37.5% Toronto Star Philip Marchand
It's nice to know, in this licentious age, that the upper middle-class American family, living in a tree-lined suburb, with two loving parents and two nice kids, is still fodder for the Walt Disney Studios.
30.0% Austin Chronicle Steve Davis
College Road Trip is that movie rarity these days -- a G-rated film that isn’t a documentary or an animated feature. A Disney production that would seemingly be more at home on the Disney Channel than in the local metroplex.
25.0% Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sue Pierman
Martin Lawrence seems to be taking a page from Eddie Murphy's playbook, starring in family-friendly comedies. Too bad it doesn't seem to be working for him.
25.0% Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
It is rare for a movie to feature a pig and not have the creature be the hammiest thing on the screen. But Raven-Symoné and Martin Lawrence are both outrageous overactors. They go together like Mentos and Pepsi.
25.0% TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Not one moment in this cheap, pandering, written-by-committee comedy rings true.
25.0% USA Today Claudia Puig
College Road Trip is nearly as hellish as taking a long trip with a bus full of karaoke-happy tourists. Actually, that's one of the gags.
20.0% Canoe.ca Jane Stevenson
Unfortunately, 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.
20.0% Metromix Matt Pais
The movie’s heart is in the right place -- children respecting adults, parents learning to let go, yadda yadda -- but that place is captured with the contemporary relevance of The Brady Bunch.
20.0% Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
It's safe enough for little ears, but Road Trip is a throwback to those bad old days when "Disney" meant "dull."
12.5% Chicago Sun-Times Darel Jevens
College Road Trip is the sort of movie that gets described as "fun for the whole family," but it really isn't. It will be no fun at all for members of the family over 10. Or sophisticated ones over 8.
0.0% Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez
College Road Trip hurts more than just the eyes and ears, it wreaks havoc on one's humane sensibilities.
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